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Season Finale: Breaking Bad – “Face Off”
“Face Off” October 9th, 2011 “I won.” For the sake of the fact that writing an opening without spoilers feels like an impossibility at the moment, let’s throw all of this behind the fold and get to the real meat … Continue reading
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Season Finale: Justified – “Bloody Harlan”
“Bloody Harlan” May 4th, 2011 In what has been a truly spectacular second season, Justified has more or less followed the same pattern as the first season: serialized elements are introduced gradually over the first half of the season before … Continue reading
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Glee – “Comeback”
“Comeback” February 15th, 2011 There is nothing wrong with Justin Bieber. Maybe it’s just my Canadian pride, but the kid is inoffensive to the point of being sort of charming. Especially recently, given his playful send-ups of his celebrity on … Continue reading
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Series Finale: Friday Night Lights – “Always”
“Always” February 9th, 2011 “Clear Eyes. Full Hearts. Can’t Lose.” Perhaps more than any other show on television, Friday Night Lights is actively concerned with the notion of legacy. The Dillon Panthers were one, the East Dillon Lions are becoming … Continue reading
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How I Met Your Mother – “Bad News”
“Bad News” January 3rd, 2011 How I Met Your Mother is willing to make sacrifices. In its balance of a long-running serial narrative and episodic storylines, the show is always looking for ways to balance one with the other: sometimes … Continue reading
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Season Finale: Terriers – “Hail Mary”
“Hail Mary” December 1st, 2010 In plotting the first season of Terriers, Shawn Ryan and Ted Griffin made two key decisions which shaped the series into one of the year’s finest. The first was their willingness to resist creating a … Continue reading
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Season Finale: Sons of Anarchy – “NS”
“NS” November 30th, 2010 Look, let’s get it out of the way: Sons of Anarchy was very far from the best show on television this fall. It was a season with a story to tell which seemed completely unwilling to … Continue reading
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Season Finale: Mad Men – “Tomorrowland”
“Tomorrowland” October 17th, 2010 “Are you kidding me?!” I’m extremely glad that Faye Miller actually said this during the episode, so I could pull quote it instead of saying itself myself. But, seriously: is Mad Men kidding me? “Tomorrowland,” like … Continue reading
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Season Finale: Friday Night Lights – “Thanksgiving”
“Thanksgiving” August 6th, 2010 The best compliment I can pay Friday Night Lights right now is that I left its fourth season finale wanting so much more than I received. I know this is normally considered a negative statement, in … Continue reading
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Series/Season Finale: Doctor Who – “The Big Bang”
“The Big Bang” June 26th, 2010 While I never publicly agonized over it, the decision to watch Doctor Who’s fifth series (or first series of the Moffat era, if we want to get really complicated) on the British schedule was … Continue reading
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