Archives - Becky Rosenberg
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Confessions of a Television Junkie
A typical family dinner on a weeknight at my house: 'Turn off the TV." Silence. 'I said turn off the TV, girls." The characters on the show continue to talk while my sister, dad, and I exchange glances. Then things really start to heat up. My mom continues her lecture on how we never listen […]
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Weiner helps ?Madmen? season end strong
There are colossal spoilers for the third season of 'Mad Men"coming up. Don't say I didn't warn you. We've all missed our alarms. It throws off your day. The late start makes you feel as if you have something to prove for the day it's like you have to accomplish a difficult task or otherwise […]
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?V? offers a chilling revival of the sci-fi franchise
Each of us recall the moment we were told about the World Trade Center attacks. Every adult remembers where they were when JFK was assassinated.ABC's revival of 'V," an old science fiction drama, uses these monumental, terrifying moments in history to introduce us to the events of a typical morning in the lives of the […]
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Chemistry defines USA?s ?White Collar?
White collar crime: a crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation. You may recognize this particular breed of felony from Steven Spielberg's popular film, 'Catch Me if You Can." If you got that far, you've pretty much got the idea of USA's newest crime procedural, […]
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?Community,? ?Glee? and ?Grey?s?: Fall TV at its finest
Our stomachs have been stuffed to maximum capacity, courtesy of Thanksgiving dinner. Christmas lights are being illegally strung in dorms across campus. Snow has actually carpeted the Rochester ground despite the uncharacteristically warm weather. And 2010 is creeping up behind our backs faster than we can imagine. This can only mean one thing to those […]
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?Community? has potential for hilarity
As college students, we have all mastered the art of getting by. Yes there are the overachievers (in mass quantities here at UR), but all of us at one point or another put aside our inner teacher's pet for that feeling of doing well on a test or a project, without really doing anything at […]
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?Dollhouse? is a pleasant surprise
Placing a show in a Friday night timeslot is the equivalent of preemptively sentencing a program to death. Combine the graveyard timing with negative publicity and multiple reshoots of the pilot episode and it seems that the show's name has moved to the top of the list on death row. Not to mention some of […]
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FOX?s ?Bones? offers compelling characters
My roommate came back to Gilbert the other day and told me she figured out that lifelong question of 'what do you want to be when you grow up?" Her answer was, potentially, a forensic anthropologist.I would have been perplexed over just what, exactly, that means, except for the fact that over winter vacation I […]
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Get "Lost" in your television set
'Lost" is essentially a show of questions, not answers. That is part of its frustration, its mystique and its powers to captivate both a cultish following as well as scare away those who can't deal with the neglect of answers. This much is made clear in the opening sequence of season five. Who are we […]
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"Chuck," "24" and "Lost": oh my!
Finally, we're back at school with a new semester. And you know what that means a brand new schedule of television to occupy our day-to-day procrastination needs. After the long hiatus of fresh episodes over the holiday season, I'm happy to say that the next few weeks offer a variety of old and new shows […]
