Watch if you dare
‘Cult’ wants to kidnap and brainwash you “Cult” (Tuesday, 8 p.m., CW) offers one of the 2012-13 season’s most intriguing concepts. It’s a TV series about a TV series named [...]
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Posted February 13, 2013in On The Tube
Posted February 06, 2013in On The Tube, Recent Posts
TV’s search for truth
‘Touch’ finds the meaning of life in the number 318 If you love TV, you have to love its grand follies. These are the shows that throw caution to the [...]
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Posted January 30, 2013in On The Tube, Recent Posts
Soviets in the suburbs
‘The Americans’ seeks to undermine our way of life We’ve seen many dramas about married couples living a lie in the suburbs, with tensions cracking the cheery façade. The lie [...]
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Posted January 23, 2013in On The Tube, Recent Posts
Fashionista in training
‘The Carrie Diaries; is a delightfully bad prequel to ‘Sex and the City’ “The Carrie Diaries” (Monday, 7 p.m., CW) is a prequel to “Sex and the City,” featuring a [...]
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Posted January 16, 2013in On The Tube, Recent Posts
When English professors kill
‘The Following’ features the world’s most unlikely evildoer I’ve always argued that a Kevin Bacon performance is never without merit, no matter the production. But I’ve finally lost the argument [...]
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Posted January 09, 2013in On The Tube, Recent Posts
Lena Dunham strikes again
The comedy phenom is on a roll with the second season of ‘Girls’ Part of me would love to be 26-year-old Lena Dunham: widely hailed as a comic genius when [...]
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Posted January 02, 2013in On The Tube, Recent Posts
God bless America
Shirley MacLaine gives the Brits a run for their money in ‘Downton Abbey’ “Downton Abbey,” Masterpiece Classic’s period soap opera, returns amid post-World War I turmoil (Sunday, 8 p.m., PBS). [...]
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Posted December 26, 2012in On The Tube, Recent Posts
Wear and tear
Joan Rivers rips into 2012’s celebrity style in ‘Fashion Police’ Joan Rivers weighs in with a year-end fashion roundup on “Fashion Police” (Friday, 9 p.m., E!). Along with Giuliana Rancic, [...]
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Posted December 19, 2012in On The Tube, Recent Posts
Part-human, part-chimp
‘Project Nim’ tells a true tale of science gone wrong “Project Nim” (Thursday, 8 p.m., HBO) tells the story of a chimpanzee who was raised like a child in a [...]
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Posted December 12, 2012in On The Tube, Recent Posts
It’s getting better all the time
The Beatles’ ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ has improved with age The Beatles’ “Magical Mystery Tour” is widely regarded as a failure, but “Magical Mystery Tour Revisited” (Friday, 8:30 p.m., PBS) gives [...]
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