Novelty night
‘American Idol’ emphasizes silliness over singing The “American Idol” season is heading into its final stretch (Wednesday and Thursday, 7 p.m., Fox), but it’s not the must-see TV of yore. [...]
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Posted April 24, 2013in On The Tube
Posted April 17, 2013in On The Tube
Crime of the century
‘All the President’s Men Revisited’ takes a fresh look at the Watergate scandal You couldn’t ask for a better reevaluation of the Watergate scandal than “All the President’s Men Revisited” [...]
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Posted April 10, 2013in On The Tube
Can’t we all just get along?
Alien races try to coexist in the post-apocalyptic ‘Defiance’ Syfy boasts that “Defiance” marks the first conversion of TV and online gaming. The drama will unfold as both a series [...]
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Posted April 03, 2013in On The Tube
Adult child of complete wackos
A new sitcom explains ‘How to Live With Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life)’ “How to Live With Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life)” (Wednesday, 8:30 [...]
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Posted March 27, 2013in On The Tube
Rest in peace?
‘Crypt Collectors’ takes reality TV six feet under It seems no one is safe from the woes of economic turmoil. And as it often goes in Hollywood, if there’s a [...]
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Posted March 20, 2013in On The Tube
Murder? Madness? Maybe
‘Phil Spector’ tries to humanize the notorious music producer “Phil Spector” (Sunday, 8 p.m., HBO) has a startling premise: that the freaky music producer might be a human being. Against [...]
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Posted March 13, 2013in On The Tube
The killing before the killing
‘Bates Motel’ is an appealingly eccentric sequel to ‘Psycho’ One has misgivings about a prequel series based on “Psycho,” Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 horror masterpiece about a misfit’s murderous fixation on [...]
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Posted March 06, 2013in On The Tube
Wife, mother, whore
‘The Client List’ features the most wholesome prostitute ever I like shameless soap operas as much as the next guy, and “The Client List” is more shameless than most. Jennifer [...]
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Posted February 27, 2013in On The Tube
Soul power
In “Enlightened,” Amy (Laura Dern) is a troubled woman making crazy-ass stabs at transcendence. This season she has committed herself to doing something meaningful on this Earth by exposing corruption [...]
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Posted February 20, 2013in On The Tube
Good cop, bad cop
“Golden Boy” (Tuesday, 9 p.m., CBS) is a new cop drama that takes an original approach to its protagonist. Walter Clark (Theo James) is not only a smart, capable police [...]
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