When it comes to television characters, we seem to love bad moms just as much as squeaky clean ones. TIME takes a look at …
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Boardwalk Empire Watch: The Swearin’ of the Green
Brief spoilers for Sunday’s Boardwalk Empire up next:
Between AMC’s Sunday finales and a large-ish print-magazine piece that I’ve been on deadline for, I didn’t get around to reviewing the very strong Boardwalk Empire …
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Boardwalk Empire Watch: The Master’s Tools
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, curl up next to a nice bookcase and watch last night’s Boardwalk Empire.
Fans of The Wire had to be waiting for Boardwalk Empire, with its sprawling storylines, to finally spotlight …
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Boardwalk Empire Watch: Gut Feeling
Spoilers for last night’s Boardwalk Empire coming up:
The first two episodes of Boardwalk Empire, having introduced and expanded the worlds of Nucky Thompson and the New York and Chicago mobs, impressed upon us how dangerous …
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Boardwalk Empire Watch: Everybody Needs a Hand
Spoilers for last night’s episode of Boardwalk Empire coming up:
The impressive thing, and in a way the problem, of the pilot of Boardwalk Empire was that it was so movie-like. (An inevitable impression since it had Martin …
Top 11 Worst Movie Sequel Titles
A new addition to our hall of shame: the just-announced title for the followup to ‘Sharknado’
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Boardwalk Empire Watch: Land of Opportunity
I plan/hope to do a full-fledged Boardwalk Empire Watch, but with a looming deadline and Mad Men and Rubicon on the same night, with network premiere week looming—and having just published my review based on the first six …
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Hawaii Five-0: Broadcast Takes a Vacation from Ambition
The premise behind the remake of Hawaii Five-0, debuting Monday night, is that Steve McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin), head of an elite Federal task force in the Aloha State, has been given carte blanche, nearly unlimited resources and tools and vast leeway to accomplish his job by almost any means necessary. That also, it would seem, was …
Top 10 Unforgettable TV Sounds
In addition to spawning multiple spin-offs, the crime drama Law & Order is also known for its immediately recognizable “doink doink.” TIME takes a look at other unmistakable television sounds.
Mystery Science Theater 2010: Riffer Madness!
The other Thursday, as people walked in early to one of the 500 theaters where the RiffTrax demolition of Reefer Madness was scheduled to play, they found one of those pre-show movie trivia games in progress on-screen. “MOVIE MISTAKES,” one card read. “Furry Vengeance was classified as a movie on the Internet Movie Database.” And: “We
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Top 10 Overplayed Wedding Songs
Anyone who has ever been to a wedding knows that there are certain songs that can’t be avoided. TIME picks the most predictable reception tunes.
Top 10 Movie Franchises That Won’t Die
Why won’t these film franchises just go away already?
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Simon Cowell’s Possible Departure From American Idol
Jim is on vacation, but he sent in this breaking news post via iPhone from somewhere on Interstate 80.
According to a report attributed to Simon Cowell’s brother, Cowell is planning to leave American Idol at the end of 2010 when his current contract is up. (There are other conflicting reports, one claiming he might stay for another 3 …