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Ambition of 'Caprica' fails to reel in large audience
I've never been anti-sci-fi. I was never gung ho about the space ships. I'm not a Trekki, and I don't watch 'Star Wars" on repeat. I'm just your average science fiction fan who likes 'Back to the Future" and 'Blade Runner" just as much as the next person.Sometime in the years of my youth, when […]
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"Life Unexpected" adds an edge to the CW lineup
Television has an innate nature to repeat itself. In the past five years or so, shows have sprung out of the seeds planted by older, successful shows of the same genre. Case in point: 'Flash Forward" has been trying to monopolize, with some minor success, on the fan base that 'Lost" generated through its mythology-oriented […]
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?Lost? premiere balances mythology and characters
BEWARE OF SPOILERS. If you haven't yet watched the season six premiere of 'Lost" (which you really should), do not continue. You've been warned.Flashbacks. Check. Flash forwards. That's right. Time travel. No, I'm not kidding. And just when you thought that Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, the masterminds behind 'Lost," had showed you all the […]
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Chuck" ends its hiatus with a return to greatness
After nearly seven months that included torment, harassment of NBC and subway sandwich eating followed by excruciating anticipation, on Sunday Jan. 10th, Chuck, Sarah, Casey and the citizens of BuyMoria returned to the airwaves with an awesome bang. Many people were concerned that with the upgraded intersect 2.0, which gave Chuck new kung fu powers, […]
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Best arts of the decade: Television
One decade ago I was 10 years old. If you had asked me what my favorite television show was, I would have probably told you 'Full House' or 'Boy Meets World' or even 'Seventh Heaven.' I was too young to understand the brilliance of shows like 'The Wire' or 'The Sopranos.' Now this does not […]
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"Greek" is more than just a guilty pleasure
Guilty pleasure television is as available on a daily basis as the blue handicapped buttons are accessible on the River Campus. In other words, very, very available. They are the shows that play in repeat on the Soap network. It's the reality series that have taken over the world with their mind-draining super powers. Even […]
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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, […]