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2010 Emmy Predictions: Outstanding Drama and Comedy Series
In case you didn’t know (because I sure as heck didn’t until I saw something the latest Entertainment Weekly), the Primetime Emmy Awards air on Sunday, August 29 on NBC. In the glow of some great nominations and not too many ridiculous slights (I’m resigned to the fact that Sons of Anarchy won’t get its due),…
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2010 Emmy Predictions: Lead Actor and Actress in a Drama Series
In case you didn’t know (because I sure as heck didn’t until I saw something the latest Entertainment Weekly), the Primetime Emmy Awards air on Sunday, August 29 on NBC. In the glow of some great nominations and not too many ridiculous slights (I’m resigned to the fact that Sons of Anarchy won’t get its due),…
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2010 Emmy Predictions: Lead Actor and Actress in a Comedy Series
In case you didn’t know (because I sure as heck didn’t until I saw something the latest Entertainment Weekly), the Primetime Emmy Awards air on Sunday, August 29 on NBC. In the glow of some great nominations and not too many ridiculous slights (I’m resigned to the fact that Sons of Anarchy won’t get its due),…
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2010 Emmy Predictions: Supporting Actor and Actress in a Drama Series
In case you didn’t know (because I sure as heck didn’t until I saw something the latest Entertainment Weekly), the Primetime Emmy Awards air on Sunday, August 29 on NBC. In the glow of some great nominations and not too many ridiculous slights (I’m resigned to the fact that Sons of Anarchy won’t get its due),…
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2010 Emmy Predictions: Supporting Actor and Actress in a Comedy Series
In case you didn’t know (because I sure as heck didn’t until I saw something the latest Entertainment Weekly), the Primetime Emmy Awards air on Sunday, August 29 on NBC. In the glow of some great nominations and not too many ridiculous slights (I’m resigned to the fact that Sons of Anarchy won’t get its due),…
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2010 Emmy Predictions: Writing for Drama and Comedy Series
In case you didn’t know (because I sure as heck didn’t until I saw something the latest Entertainment Weekly), the Primetime Emmy Awards air on Sunday, August 29 on NBC. In the glow of some great nominations and not too many ridiculous slights (I’m resigned to the fact that Sons of Anarchy won’t get its due),…
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2010 Emmy Predictions: Directing for Drama and Comedy Series
In case you didn’t know (because I sure as heck didn’t until I saw something the latest Entertainment Weekly), the Primetime Emmy Awards air on Sunday, August 29 on NBC. In the glow of some great nominations and not too many ridiculous slights (I’m resigned to the fact that Sons of Anarchy won’t get its due),…
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Far from sucking: Reflections on season one of The Vampire Diaries
From the beginning, I was skeptical of The Vampire Diaries. When I heard about the series during development season back in early 2009, I was more than ambivalent. And what shouldn’t I have been? Its development came right on the heels of the Twilight phenomenon and just as True Blood was taking off. The whole thing…
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Burn Notice, “Blind Spot”
Though I haven’t written a lot about Burn Notice lately, that’s not because the series has been slumping. In fact, I think the last few episodes have been fairly strong, even if the ongoing arc is getting simply ridiculous at this point. However, the combination of Chuck Finley and Jesse’s realization helped make “Blind Spot”…
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Surveillance Summer Watch, Sons of Anarchy: Families fall apart, come together
If you’d like to check out previous posts in this series, visit the Surveillance Summer Watch page. It’s really unfortunate that this is the final post in my Surveillance Summer Watch series. Just as it always happens, the summer was much busier than I had expected it to be, with work, trips and currently-airing television taking…
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PLUG: Making the scripted more real? Pro wrestling and Twitter
Today is kind of a big day for me, as my first official piece as an academic has been published. If you click on over to In Media Res you’ll find my 400-word curator’s note on the use of social media (specifically Twitter) in the world of pro wrestling. My post is the second…
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Mad Men, “The Rejected”
On this past week’s Firewall and Iceberg podcast, Sepinwall and Fienberg discussed Mad Men‘s execution of its themes and whether or not said execution was on-the-nose or not. Both of those gentlemen came to the conclusion that while Matthew Weiner makes certain that the audience takes in the point he’s trying to make each week,…
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Is Supernatural’s back-to-basics plan a good idea?
Note: Again, I’m looking to do more short-form column-like pieces here on TVS. This is one of them. All Supernatural fans know this, but for those uninitiated here’s a quick synopsis of the background information needed for this piece. The low-rated CW series was always on a five-year plan, according to creator/show runner Eric Kripke. With…
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Sometimes origin stories take 10 years — Ranking the episodes of Smallville, Episodes 184-169
After the positive response to my ranked list of Lost and Office episodes, I just had to do another. Heck, even if there wasn’t a positive response for those two features, I probably would have done another one anyway because I love lists. I’ve been thinking about what series to tackle for nearly a month…
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Sometimes origin stories take 10 years — Ranking the episodes of Smallville [Introductions and Episodes 195-185]
After the positive response to my ranked list of Lost and Office episodes, I just had to do another. Heck, even if there wasn’t a positive response for those two features, I probably would have done another one anyway because I love lists. I’ve been thinking about what series to tackle for nearly a month…
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