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Those of you watching HBO’s The Pacific have been following the story of John Basilone (Jon Seda), the Marine hero and Medal of Honor winner who was dispatched to tour the States and pitch war bonds to fund the troops. While I’m aware, I thought I’d show you this bit of archival …
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If you’re reading this, it means that I’m traveling on assignment right now and didn’t get around to doing a writeup of the second episode of Treme. Instead, you can use this thread to discuss the episode yourselves. (Nutshell: I thought it came together more tightly than the long, impressionistic pilot; Lambreaux’s confrontation with …
“A man provides.”
It is the diabolical wording – brainwashing really – used by one drug kingpin in luring a supplier back into the fray, fishing for any weaknesses in Walt’s decision to leave the business. Walt …
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I’m going to be away, and largely away from blog access, through Wednesday-ish. Keep checking Tuned In, though, as I’ll have a couple robo-posts set up, and Techland’s Steve Snyder has again volunteered to do some guest-posting as his schedule permits. Other than the temporary increase in quality, you’ll hardly notice a thing while I’m …
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No time for a full review of last night’s Fringe, “White Tulip,” but after having done some earlier grousing about how the show balances mythology and standalone episodes, this one did a much better job reconciling the two. I don’t need Fringe to become a Lost-like serial (whatever my personal preferences). But I found this approach, …
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Brief spoilers for last night’s Survivor coming up after the jump:
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Yesterday was April 15, which is to say Tax Day, which is to say Tea Party Day, and needless to say that meant plenty of coverage on Fox News in particular of the anti-big-government protests held yesterday. One could get all J-school and tsk-tsk-y about how closely the news channel and especially its opinion hosts have associated …
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How much you loved the 200th episode of South Park last night probably depended largely on how much you love one of the biggest subgenres of that show: Episodes That Make Fun of Celebrities. That’s personally not one …
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As any parent today will tell you, it is important for children to begin early acquiring the technological skills they will need in our demanding world. For instance, how can we use the Internet and distance-learning technology to teach children the vital skills they will need in order to successfully compete in the reality-TV …
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After the travesty that was the iPad episode (which mercifully aired while I was on vacation), Modern Family was back with an episode that hit on pretty much every subplot, explored some new combinations of characters while offering fresh takes on old ones and proved the maxim: if you have a …
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Quick spoilers for last night’s double elimination on American Idol—after the break!
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No time for an elaborate writeup of last night’s Justified, but I was glad to see the show move away from the self-contained stories (albeit very good ones) of the last few weeks to get at some of the reasons that coming home to Harlan County was such an unwelcome idea to Raylan. To wit: Daddy.
We met the tough, criminal cuss who is …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, get your self a big bowl of homemade tortilla chips and watch last night’s Lost.
