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Spoilers for the season finale of The Good Wife:
The Good Wife‘s first season ended–well, almost ended–with Alicia and Peter Florrick standing in a backstage corridor, very much like the one where she hauled off and slapped him across the face for betraying her in the show’s pilot. The pilot was a very good one, but the contrast …
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Spoilers for last night’s Glee coming up:
After a string of improved episodes, especially last week’s high point, “Dream On,” I was nervous about “Theatricality,” because it was another episode devoted to showcasing a particular artist. I know some fans vehemently disagree with me, but “The Power of Madonna” was an example of how Glee …
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There is a limit to the number of overstuffed reality-competition extravaganzas I’m willing to cover, even to support my family, so if you’re looking for commentary on last night’s Dancing with the Stars finale here, you’ll have to provide it yourself. I’m playing catch-up on season-finale night, so I hope to have quick writeups on …
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It was the last performance night of the season, and Simon Cowell’s last judging night ever. Will it be the rocker or the folkie? The paint-store worker or the coffee-house singer? The husky-voiced guy or the husky-voiced gal? Lee DeWyze and Crystal Bowersox squared off to be the ninth American Idol: click the pix to see how they did.
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…here’s an hour and change more, courtesy of the good offices of Ryan McGee of Zap2It and Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune, plus yours truly. We walked about how our views of the finale have evolved (or not) over 36 hours, the polarized online debate over the ending, our thoughts on the ending itself and the long but …
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Spoilers for the series finale of 24 coming up:
24 came onto the air in 2001 as a form-breaking serial that looked strikingly different from anything else on TV. As all successful insurgents do over time, though, it became another institution, with its own familiar forms, tropes and patterns. And last night, 24 said goodbye—to TV …
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Spoilers for How I Met Your Mother’s season finale coming up:
We’ve reached the end of another season of How I Met Your Mother. How far have we come? Robin dated Barney, then dated Don, and is now single again. Barney is hooking up with as many people as possible. Ted is… well, Ted is blond. The people who have come closest to …
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The finale of Lost belonged to that rare, much-analyzed and treacherous category of series finale: the ending of a TV phenomenon while it’s still a phenomenon. Success or disaster, only a handful of series—Seinfeld, Friends, The Fugitive, The Sopranos—get this kind of send-off, much less at a time of their own choosing.
There are …
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I’m not going to be good for much today beyond reading other critics’ and bloggers’ writeups of Lost, so I can at least be of some use to you and refer you to some of the other opinions I’ve been reading this morning:
Myles McNutt, Cultural Learnings: “Beautiful and heartwrenching, ‘The End’ captures more than any other series finale …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, gather some of your closest friends together in a special place, and watch the last episode ever of Lost.
The great puzzle of the last season of Lost has been: how can both the flash-sideways universe and the Island universe mean anything? If Sideways is the universe in which Oceanic 815 …
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It is one of those cruel tricks of the calendar that the most unusual and very possibly best episode of Breaking Bad so far—and this following on a string of possibly-best-episodes—should come on the night of Lost’s finale. …
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Any last predictions, hopes, fears, questions? Post ’em here.
As a reminder, I’ll be putting up something on the finale here after it airs, at least for purposes of kicking off discussion. How much I write will depend in part on a mathematical equation involving how much I have to say versus how likely I am to say something really …
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Time’s tight, so I’m going to throw out some spoilery thoughts on the universe-straddling season finale of Fringe, entirely in hail-of-bullets form. Stand back; I’m using the 77 model.
* A random thought first: I can’t help but think that, however the parallel-worlds storyline of Lost is resolved in its finale, it will eventually beg …
