Dec
17
Episodes: The problem with top 10 lists
I went on a bit of a Twitter tear a week ago, spurred by the HitFix TV critics poll but,
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Dec
09
Episodes: The Top 13 TV Shows I Just Didn't Watch in 2015
No TV critic watches everything. So when my top 30 shows on TV list is unveiled on December 21 at
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Dec
08
Episodes: My top 10 TV shows of 2015
It's that time of year again! The time of year when I insert some platitudes about how the
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Dec
05
Episodes: Guns
I grew up surrounded by two things: Republicans and guns. Thus, I don't particularly hate the former, and
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Dec
04
Episodes: Nit-picking The Revenant for really stupid and petty reasons
WARNING: THIS IS THE DUMBEST INSTALLMENT OF THIS DUMB NEWSLETTER YET. TUNE OUT NOW! OR GO PLAY SOLITAIRE OR SOMETHING.
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Dec
03
Episodes: All in the Family's "Everybody Tells the Truth" and the perils of the Rashomon episode
(My apologies for any details I get wrong. I had intended to revisit this episode before writing this, but life,
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Dec
02
Episodes: "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" is a perfect song
Have you heard a bad version of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"?
I mean, I'm
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Nov
26
Episodes: How to save the TV canon
(This is part two of a series. To read part one, go here!)
There was perhaps no TV feature so
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Nov
25
Episodes: The problem with the TV "canon" (and why maybe classic TV is doomed)
I have a love-hate thing with canons. I think they're useful in general, because they give us all
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Nov
21
Episodes: "The Great Comet of 1812" from Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
(We're talking about Broadway musicals this week, and it's gone better than you might have expected
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