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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 […]
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?The Office? proves that TV relationships will succeed
Television couples. They either work or they don't. Sometimes they spend 10 seasons getting to an acceptable point of audience satisfaction. Sometimes they just start out that way. Whether it's Rachel getting off the plane for Ross or Big flying to Paris for Carrie, some shows just get it right, but other shows just don't […]
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?Pushing Daisies? pushes against being cancelled
It's times like these when I wish I had the power to revive the dead with a single touch. And when I say the dead, I mean a potentially cancelled television show. And when I say with a single touch, I mean the single click of a remote to ABC on Wednesday nights at 8 […]
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Thursday TV shows lose appeal
From 8 to 9 p.m. on Thursday evenings, we have the returning show 'Smallville" for its (probably undeserving) eighth season.While I have followed this show through almost all seven seasons of its existence, the past few seasons have proved extremely disappointing. I mean honestly, you would think that by this point Superman would have learned […]
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?Grey?s Anatomy? dissects lesbian relationship
I started watching one of the most popular hospital dramas on television, 'Grey's Anatomy," when my roommate told me about her obsession shortly after arriving at school this year. I got through the first two seasons before skipping to the current season five to keep up with everyone else.While many ardent followers of the show […]