Archive | Television Review
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TV Review: Ken Burns’ ‘Tenth Inning’ lacks clear conclusions on baseball
Baseball is a sport of closure. Unlike other sports, there is neither a clock nor a specific amount of points a team must score. You need to get the other team out 27 times and, if upon doing so, you have scored more than your opponent, you win.
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TV Review: “Dr. Who”
This week’s heat wave has left almost everyone looking for an excuse to spend the afternoon lounging on a couch in an air-conditioned room, watching an attention-diverting movie or TV show. The summer’s on-air choices are a little limited (season six of the Bachelorette anyone?
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TV Review: “Futurama”
Perhaps no TV show in history has had a more complicated lifespan than “Futurama,” Matt Groening’s improbably death-defying space-age laugher.
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Television Review: “Futurama”
“On the count of three, you will awaken feeling refreshed as if 'Futurama' had never been canceled by idiots and then brought back by bigger idiots. 1... 2...
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TV Review/Interview: MTV’s “Hired”
In the early ’80s, MTV launched as a platform for music videos but, in the nearly 30 years since the network first hit television screens across the country, MTV has also become a pop culture phenomenon.
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TV Review: Fox’s “The Good Guys”
“The Good Guys” is, if nothing else, chuckle inducing. It takes the buddy cop stereotype and manages to both satirize and embrace it fully at the same time, sometimes even blurring that line until it’s downright confusing.