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A Televisual Love Letter: Reveling in HBO’s Game of Thrones
A Televisual Love Letter: HBO’s Game of Thrones April 3rd, 2011 When I sat down to watch the first six episodes of HBO’s Game of Thrones – which HBO subscribers can preview tonight at 9/8c when the first fifteen minutes … Continue reading
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Papacy without Purpose: A Review of Showtime’s The Borgias
Papacy without Purpose: Showtime’s The Borgias April 3rd, 2011 Things do come in threes, don’t they? As critics across the country confront a trio of drama series which all fall into the broad category of costume drama (albeit with some … Continue reading
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Now What?: Advance Screeners in the Digital Age
Advance Screeners in the Digital Age March 31st, 2011 It is hardly a secret that television critics often receive advance screeners of popular television programs: after all, the role of the traditional critic has been to produce pre-air reviews of … Continue reading
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Offseason Shenanigans: The Return of Glee
Offseason Shenanigans: The Return of Glee February 6th, 2011 For a show which has yet to air an episode in 2011, Glee has been awfully ubiquitous. No, this isn’t surprising: people can’t get enough of Glee, so it is inevitable … Continue reading
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15 Minutes in Westeros: Previewing HBO’s Game of Thrones
15 Minutes in Westeros: Previewing HBO’s Game of Thrones January 12th, 2011 There were two things which struck me as particularly strange while watching the fifteen minutes of footage from Game of Thrones which HBO has made available to critics … Continue reading
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Making History: The Amazing (and Reductive) Race for an All-Female Winner
Making History: The Race for an All-Female Winner December 12th, 2010 Tonight, there is a 2 in 3 chance of history being made on The Amazing Race. For a show in its seventeenth season, it sorts of seems like it … Continue reading
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“It’s Not Fantasy, it’s @HBO”: Going Inside HBO’s Game of Thrones
“It’s Not Fantasy, it’s @HBO”: Game of Thrones December 5th, 2010 Tonight is the night that most people will be writing about Boardwalk Empire, which ends its first season on HBO, and The Walking Dead, which ends its first season … Continue reading
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Reminder: Caprica debuts tonight on SyFy and SPACE
“Pilot” January 22nd, 2010 It’s been eight months since I reviewed the pilot, so I’m interested in whether anyone out there is really watching Caprica for the first time tonight as the two-hour pilot makes its television debut on SyFy … Continue reading
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Stop Reading this Headline and Make Plans to Watch Chuck Season 3 Instead
Chuck Season Three Preview January 10th, 2010 Chuck is awesome. Its third season premieres tonight. You should watch it. …oh, that’s not enough detail? Ask Alan. Or Todd. Or Dan. Or James. They already saw it. I didn’t. So what … Continue reading
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