Monkey Business
“Portlandia” Thursdays (IFC) One of the selling points of “Portlandia” has always been, if you don’t like one sketch, there’s another coming along in a minute. In Season 5, Fred [...]
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Posted January 14, 2015in On The Tube
Posted January 07, 2015in On The Tube
New Year’s Noise
“Archer” Thursday, Jan. 8 (FX) Season Premiere: After last season’s cocaine ’n’ country detour, Sterling Archer (H. Jon Benjamin) and crew are back in the spy game — but [...]
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Posted December 31, 2014in On The Tube
The Best of TV 2014 Pt. 2
“You’re the Worst”(FX) Like the equally surprising “Broad City,” “You’re the Worst” shattered preconceptions of the “edgy” cable comedy with smarts, heart, bracing moments of relationship realism (and outright [...]
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Posted December 24, 2014in On The Tube
The Best TV of 2014 Pt. 1
(Almost) everything you should revisit, or discover, from the past year. “True Detective” (HBO) Creator/writer Nic Pizzolatto probably screwed himself by launching this mesmerizing crime anthology with stars [...]
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Posted December 17, 2014in On The Tube
100 and done
“Anger Management” finally reaches 100 episodes. In other news, “Anger Management” is still on. In March 2011, Charlie Sheen was fired from CBS’ “Two & a Half Men” for being, [...]
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Posted December 10, 2014in On The Tube
Space oddity
“Marco Polo” Friday, Dec. 12 (Netflix) Networks are jumping on the sweeping, quasi-historical period piece bandwagon: HBO set it off with “Game of Thrones,” History has “Vikings,” Starz has “Outlander” [...]
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Posted December 03, 2014in On The Tube
Adventure Time
Peter Pan Live! Thursday, Dec. 4 (NBC) Special: Last year, it was “The Sound of Music”; in January, it’ll be “The Music Man”; tonight, “Peter Pan” — NBC can’t launch [...]
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Posted November 26, 2014in On The Tube
Thankstreaming
Cinema Insomnia (Roku’s Zom-Bee TV) “Your host” Mr. Lobo has presented late-night horror-cheese showcase Cinema Insomnia for 13 years through a smattering of regional cable outlets and, probably, subliminal mind [...]
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Posted November 19, 2014in On The Tube
X-mas onslaught
“An En Vogue Christmas” (Lifetime; Saturday, Nov. 22) The singers of En Vogue (as played by the current legally recognized singers of En Vogue) reunite for a holiday benefit concert [...]
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Posted November 12, 2014in On The Tube
Zero Dark Iffy
[B] State of Affairs Monday, Nov. 17 (NBC) Series Debut: Katherine Heigl was great in Grey’s Anatomy, and then Knocked Up—let’s pretend she joined the Peace Corps in 2007 and [...]
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