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TV Review: American Masters “Johnny Carson: King of Late Night”
PBS premieres a fascinating look at the life of television icon, Johnny Carson
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TV Review: “Veep”
Politics hasn't really been covered in movies or TV like this before. Perhaps that's because Veep was created and co-written by Armando Iannucci of the satirical British series "The Thick Of It" and the
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Game of Thrones: Season 2 Premiere
It's great that the adaptation is so faithful to the source material, but Seven help us, it's all so damn confusing
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Mad Men Season 5 Premiere
“I don’t really care about work. I care about you.” That, you incredibly patient fans of Mad Men, is not the only lie Don Draper tells over the course of the first two episodes
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The Office (and Community): Get the Girl
Two relatively interesting things happened on NBC this week. The Office finally closed out its Florida arc by dragging most of the subplot’s principal characters back to Scranton and Community returned after a long, nervous hiatus.
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The Office Florida Excursion: Last Day in Florida
I may step on some critics’ toes for this statement, but I believe film will always be at least a little more respectable than television. It’s not because film attracts an inherently higher caliber
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The Office Florida Excursion: Test The Store
In the climactic scene of this week’s intriguing but ultimately problematic episode of The Office, the show provided an apt metaphor for why exactly it’s failing today more often than it’s succeeding. Jim, stepping
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The Office Florida Excursion: After Hours
Last week I griped about two early problems with The Office‘s Florida plot arc. I worried that, by dividing the action over so many locations, the show would stretch itself too thin to sustain
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The Office Florida Excursion: Tallahassee
As The Office enters the meat of its bold vacation to Florida in a clear bid to rejuvenate its wayward eighth season, the energy is there but the format is strained. “Tallahassee” is the fastest,
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