With Season 2 of the BBC’s Sherlock premiering on Sunday, TIME looks back at TV’s Watson-worthy sleuths
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Bored to Death Finale: Family Affair
Quick spoilers for the season finale of Bored to Death below:
Last night was the last episode of Bored to Death‘s season three, and perhaps, depending how HBO reacts to the ratings, the last of the series. I’ve always quietly …
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TCA Roundup: Is AMC the New HBO? Is HBO the New AMC?
The TCA TV critics’ press tour (which I will be joining next week) continued with its cable round yesterday, as critics and reporters heard from AMC, a critics’ darling that has recently taken some dings in its Teflon armor over the season finale of The Killing, ugly negotiations over Mad Men and a shakeup at hit zombie drama The …
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TV Weekend: Bored to Death
To the great Sunday-night pileup that AMC and HBO have wrought, this weekend we add the return of Bored to Death.* There are a lot of things to love about the story of writer-turned-private-dick Jonathan Ames (Jonathan Schwartzman): the shaggy-dog hipster-noir stories, the highbrow-lit-meets-lowbrow-slapstick plots, the loving use of …
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Straight Out of Brooklyn: Bored to Death Gets a Return Date
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I will be the first to admit that my enjoyment of Bored to Death is at least partly based in personal bias. I live in Brooklyn, and while HBO is heavy on shows that love my borough (In Treatment, Boardwalk Empire and Flight of the Conchords all shot there, at least in part), Bored to …
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The Morning After: One-Two Punch
It’s a sign of how much the broader cable universe has matured that the big Sunday-night finale we’re talking about was on AMC, and HBO’s shows are the afterthought. But last night’s Curb Your Enthusiasm and (especially) the season finale of Bored to Death were very good in their own right.
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So What's the Best Comedy on TV Right Now?
That TV-critics’ Twitter debate I mentioned in my Modern Family post this morning was kicked off by a simple but tough question: what’s the best comedy on TV right now? I don’t want to misrepresent anyone by saying who picked what and why, but it’s something I’m wrestling with right now, as I start to work on my best-of lists for 2009. …
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The Morning After: Jersey Boys
I’ve really been enjoying Bored to Death since it moved past its underwhelming pilot; I love its laid-back charm and its low-stakes detective drama, and, well, any comedy with a scene that climaxes in someone hurling a vial of semen sample across a room is bound to win my heart. The show is so intensely, specifically Brooklyn-centric, …
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Dead Tree Alert: Comedy Comes Back
Sunday night, the Seinfeld-reunion arc starts on Curb Your Enthusiasm, and to greet it, I have an essay in the print TIME about the state of TV comedy 11 years later—which surprisingly, for once in a long while, is pretty good. For once in a long time, most of the best new series this year have been comedies. Part of the reason …
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TV Weekend: Private Eye-rony; Also, Curb’s Return
It’s a tricky Sunday coming up for fans of finer television everywhere. The Emmys (hosted by the suddenly ubiquitous Neil Patrick Harris) are on that night. Mad Men, refusing to take a breather even for its likely slew of awards, airs an original episode. And HBO debuts a strong new comedy—Bored to Death—while Curb Your …
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Seinfeld Cast Reuniting. For Real This Time.
The cast of Seinfeld is reuniting. But not on Seinfeld. A fictional, yet real, meta-reunion of the classic sitcom is going to be the story arc of the next season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, debuting Sept. 20 on HBO, Larry David announced at the TV critics’ press tour today.
How did Larry David decide to get the Beatles back together? …