It's Who You Know: Predicting How 'The Newsroom' Will Get Its Next Scoop
If there's one thing that HBO's The Newsroom is especially good at, it's portraying journalists who aren't especially good at journalism.Well, maybe that's not fair.
View ArticleA Farewell Salute To 'Ben & Kate,' A Show About Friends Who Are Actually Friends
Whether this week's announcements that both ABC's Don't Trust The B- In Apt. 23 and Fox's Ben & Kate are being yanked from the schedules mark the beginning of the Great Sitcom Massacre of 2013...
View ArticleTweaks, Retooling, And When To Give Up: A Tale Of Two Singing Shows
As The Voice returns to NBC this week for its fourth season, viewers are seeing two new, if quite familiar, faces as Shakira and Usher occupy the coaches' seats vacated by Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo...
View ArticleNothing Personal, But I'm Not Reading Your 'Breaking Bad' Analysis
The closer we get to the end of Breaking Bad, the less I want to read about it.I'm not calling for a moratorium on Breaking Bad content from now until the finale (and not only because of ... you know,...
View ArticleKaty Perry And The New Rules Of Pop
Stagecraft does not come naturally to Katy Perry. She does very well by candy-colored fever-dream videos; shooting whipped cream from her cupcake boobs, throwing cartoonishly out-of-control neon-'80s...
View ArticleAbout 'Mystery Science Theater,' A Bold Declaration. It's Bold!
This is a big week for Mystery Science Theater 3000, or as big a week as can be had for a show that's been off the air since the waning days of the 20th century. The show first aired a quarter of a...
View Article'Parks And Recreation': Good For Nerds, Good For America
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View ArticleFix The Best New Artist Grammy: Dump It
Each year's Grammy Awards offer their own questions and controversies based on how the nominations pan out, but there are a few points of contention that come up year after year. There's the difference...
View ArticleNo Take-Backs: Why Can't 'New Girl' Figure Out What It's Doing?
[Ahoy, there be New Girl spoilers ahead, through the most recently aired episode, "Mars Landing."]A few weeks ago, New Girl neared the end of its third season the way it began it: by admitting that it...
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