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Hiding Behind the Brand: How The Killing Threatens the Future of AMC
I haven’t seen the first season finale of AMC’s The Killing. In fact, I haven’t seen the last five episodes of the show’s first season – I fell behind a few weeks ago, struggled to find the motivation to continue, … Continue reading
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Season Finale: Game of Thrones – “Fire and Blood”
“Fire and Blood” June 19th, 2011 “There you will see what life is worth when all the rest is gone.” Earlier this week, I rewatched last week’s penultimate episode, “Baelor,” with my brother who was seeing it for the first … Continue reading
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Season Finale: Glee – “New York”
“New York” May 24th, 2011 “Make one…in your mind.” As Rachel and Kurt stand on stage at the Gershwin Theater in New Your City, with the land of Oz behind them, Kurt suggests that they take this opportunity to belt … Continue reading
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Season Finale: Parks and Recreation – “The Bubble”/”Lil’ Sebastian”
“The Bubble”/”Lil’ Sebastian” May 19th, 2011 It’s unfortunate that I haven’t been able to review Parks and Recreation more regularly this season: while I had screeners for the first six episodes, anything after that proved difficult since so much of … Continue reading
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Season Finale: Fringe – “The Day We Died”
“The Day We Died” May 6th, 2011 While I intended on writing something following the Fringe finale all week, I expected it to be a piece about how my general distance from the series made the finale less satisfying than … Continue reading
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Community – “A Fistful of Paintballs”
“A Fistful of Paintballs” May 5th, 2011 “That was a game. This is paintball.” “A Fistful of Paintballs” is unquestionably a sequel to “Modern Warfare,” but I’d argue that it’s a fundamentally different episode on some level. It follows the … 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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Season Finale: Shameless – “Father Frank, Full of Grace”
“Father Frank, Full of Grace” March 27th, 2011 By the conclusion of its first season, I would argue that Showtime’s Shameless found something of an identity independent of its British predecessor. This is not to say that the show is … Continue reading
