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Because you should always endeavor to do exactly what I’m doing, this would be a good time to go back and re-watch Lost’s pilot in preparation for the season debut next Tuesday.
You can have plenty of fun looking back and seeing, in retrospect, how much foreshadowing there is in those two hours …
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Super Bowl Sunday is a little more a week away, and the most exciting matchup so far is on the advertising field. CBS, which used to observe a proscription against “issue” advertising during the big game, recently dropped its objection, to accept an ad from pro-life evangelical group Focus on the Family, featuring star quarterback Tim …
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I joked yesterday about the fact that death is a temporary state on Lost, but it seems pretty clear that, whatever mythology eventually gets revealed, it will have to have something to do with explaining about why we see (or think we do?) so many dead people walking around on The Island.
As with Battlestar Galactica, the solution goes …
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Never mind:
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NBC’s comedies were in reruns last night, but that doesn’t mean there was no new comedy. FX’s Archer aired a new episode last night, and although I won’t discuss the specific episode—because I’m not sure if FX has been airing episodes in the order I received them—I can say that as I watched the five episodes I was sent in advance, …
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My column in this week’s print TIME is about the New York Times’ plan to begin charging (some people, something) to read it on the Web starting next year. Seemingly by design, it doesn’t look like the plan would raise too much money at first. It’s more important symbolically: the country’s most authoritative (and argued-about) …
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If you are celebrity trying to get past a major public controversy, one time-tested option is to do a dramatic interview on late-night TV. If you are the once and future host of the Tonight Show, however, and the hosts of every other late-night show apparently think you are the biggest jerk in showbiz, that is not so much of an …
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Last fall, when I sat down to talk with Maureen Ryan and Alan Sepinwall about Lost (and other shows), one thing we discussed was that the show has done an excellent job of making you invested in characters who weren’t central—or weren’t even on the show—when it started. Alan, for instance, said that one of the most important things …
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I was too busy watching the State of the Union—and surfing for reviews of the iPad—to catch up on last night’s American Idol, even though it featured television’s favorite guest star, Neil Patrick Harris. How was he? Bonus points to anyone who can evaluate his performance without using a “Legen—wait for it…” construction.
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So what did you think of the speech? No, not the State of the Union; other people are all over that. No, not the iPad launch; we’ve already covered that. I’m talking about the Republican response to the State of the Union, which new Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell delivered, in a twist, …
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Steve Jobs finally unveiled Apple’s long-awaited tablet device, the iPad. Yeah, it’s a dumb name. Get all your jokes out of the way now. (They should call the 8GB version “Light” and the 32GB “Maxi,” the 3G version comes with wings, &c.)
The iPad is a lot of things—better-informed people than I can describe it for you—but it’s …
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Do you want to do something more to help the victims of the Haitian earthquake? Have you always longed to have your own American Idol TV tray? Now you can do both. The Chicago Tribune’s TV critic Maureen Ryan is eBaying TV DVDs and promotional swag items and donating all the proceeds to Partners in Health. It’s a great idea, and worth …
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Last week, with Conan O’Brien getting ready to leave the air, Team Coco dominated the Internet. This week, with Jay Leno preparing for an image-rehab visit to Oprah tomorrow, the race to be “the only one out there sticking up for Jay Leno” is starting to get crowded. Mark Evanier argues that Jay is not the bad guy and that NBC’s decision …
