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Post-hiatus musings: I don’t want your stupid movies, cult television
After nearly a month, my fairly substantial hiatus here at TVS is over. I am happy to be back providing content for you folks on a regular basis. In my time off, I’ve missed all sorts of television, both viewing- and writing-wise. To combat that, I’ll be whipping up a number of random posts with…
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Post-hiatus musings: Breaking Bad Season 4
After nearly a month, my fairly substantial hiatus here at TVS is over. I am happy to be back providing content for you folks on a regular basis. In my time off, I’ve missed all sorts of television, both viewing- and writing-wise. To combat that, I’ll be whipping up a number of random posts with…
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Test Pilot: File #21, thirtysomething
Test Pilot #21: thirtysomething Debut date: September 29, 1987 Series legacy: One of the most-respected family dramas of all-time, a precursor to the likes of Friday Night Lights and Parenthood It’s time for a new theme in the site’s most popular ongoing feature, Test Pilot. The primary reason I started this feature almost a year ago…
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Musings on The Glee Project from someone who just started watching The Glee Project
I watched the first few minutes of the initial episode of The Glee Project and then realized I didn’t really care that much. Fast forward a handful of weeks later, throw in the accessibility of multiple episodes OnDemand and a girlfriend who didn’t want to watch some of the scripted series I’d hoped she would…
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#TVFail Entry 7: Moonlighting, “I Am Curious…Maddie”
The accused: Moonlighting, “I Am Curious…Maddie” The crime: Destroying the series with the consummation of the unresolved sexual tension and setting a precedent for countless other series to either do the same or avoid resolution for far too long Television’s failures are supposed to be obvious. From the overhyped non-starters that flop from the very…
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Surveillance Summer Watch: Season Finale — Hill Street Blues, “Jungle Madness” Parts One and Two
This is the newest post in 2011′s Surveillance Summer Watch series featuring Cheers and Hill Street Blues. For the next couple of months, I’ll be writing weekly reviews of episodes from each series’ first seasons, with Cheers on Tuesdays and Hill Street Blues on Thursdays. For more information, see this post and for all the SSW pieces, visit this page. Here we are folks, at…
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Mid-season finale: White Collar, “Countdown”
I’m kinda-sorta coming out of my self-induced new series hiatus to talk about the mid-season finale of White Collar. I HOPE YOU PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THE SACRIFICES I MAKE FOR YOU. But seriously, hiatus or not, I’d feel remissed to not talk about one of my favorite series as it comes to a temporary stopping point…
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Surveillance Summer Watch: Hill Street Blues, “Rites of Spring” Parts One and Two
This is the newest post in 2011′s Surveillance Summer Watch series featuring Cheers and Hill Street Blues. For the next couple of months, I’ll be writing weekly reviews of episodes from each series’ first seasons, with Cheers on Tuesdays and Hill Street Blues on Thursdays. For more information, see this post and for all the SSW pieces, visit this page. Hill Street Blues brings us a…
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Test Pilot: File #20, Remington Steele
Test Pilot #20: Remington Steele Debut date: October 1, 1982 Series legacy: A well-made production and a somewhat forgotten forerunner to series like Moonlighting; Probably known best for launching Pierce Brosnon’s career and little more Authorship is a really tricky thing and perhaps no more so than in the world of television. Numerous scholars have…
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Surveillance Summer Watch: Season Finale — Cheers, “Showdown” Parts One and Two
This is the newest post in 2011′s Surveillance Summer Watch series featuring Cheers and Hill Street Blues. For the next couple of months, I’ll be writing weekly reviews of episodes from each series’ first seasons, with Cheerson Tuesdays and Hill Street Blues on Thursdays. For more information, see this post and for all the SSW pieces, visit this page. Whoa, here we are at…
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#TVFail Entry 6: Entourage, “Adios Amigos”
The accused: Entourage, “Adios Amigos” The crime: Representing all that made Entourage pretty bad in its later seasons Television’s failures are supposed to be obvious. From the overhyped non-starters that flop from the very beginning (hello, FlashForward, Lone Star) to the much-discussed clumsy conclusions of series we were convinced had it all planned out (nice to see you…
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Surveillance Summer Watch: Cheers, “No Contest,” “Pick a Con…Any Con” and “Someone Single, Someone Blue”
This is the newest post in 2011′s Surveillance Summer Watch series featuring Cheers and Hill Street Blues. For the next couple of months, I’ll be writing weekly reviews of episodes from each series’ first seasons, with Cheerson Tuesdays and Hill Street Blues on Thursdays. For more information, see this post and for all the SSW pieces, visit this page. Sorry for the delay here,…
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Test Pilot: Announcing the Test Pilot schedule through the end of 2011
Just as I did for #TVFail, I have decided to bash out the Test Pilot schedule through the end of this calendar year. I tend to let these things get ahead of me even though I have it all planned it out in my head. Test Pilot is particularly tricky because I need a guest…
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#TVFail: Announcing the #TVFail schedule through the end 2011
Hey everyone! You may have noticed — thankfully a few of you did, based on your tweets to me — that I skipped taking on new #TVFail posts a few times over the last month. I’m here to tell you that its absence is only temporary and entirely based on my hectic summer schedule. I…
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Surveillance Summer Watch: Hill Street Blues, “Gatorbait” and “Life, Death, Eternity”
This is the newest post in 2011′s Surveillance Summer Watch series featuring Cheers and Hill Street Blues. For the next couple of months, I’ll be writing weekly reviews of episodes from each series’ first seasons, with Cheers on Tuesdays and Hill Street Blues on Thursdays. For more information, see this post and for all the SSW pieces, visit this page. Although Hill Street Blues is primarily…
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