Category: Featured
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Friday Night Lights, “The Son”
Apologies for not giving my thoughts on last week’s episode — short form answer: I liked it — but I had other things to handle. And I knew that this week’s episode would deserve more discussion. You know, because “The Son” is one of the best hours of dramatic television produced in the last year.
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2009-10 season wrap: Community
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be summarizing my thoughts on many of the series that ended just as the “official” television season came to a close recently. Overview: Though it offered a strong pilot, Community quickly evolved into something much better than what I originally thought it could be. As the first season progressed,…
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2009-10 season wrap: Smallville
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be summarizing my thoughts on many of the series that ended just as the “official” television season came to a close recently. Overview: Season eight of the series turned towards a new direction without Lex and Lana and suddenly made us remember that Smallville could be good again. After…
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2009-10 season wrap: House
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be summarizing my thoughts on many of the series that ended just as the “official” television season came to a close recently. Overview: Oh, House. I’ve profiled my frustrations with how the series has changed since the original team broke up at the end of season three, and even…
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2009-10 season wrap: Supernatural
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be summarizing my thoughts on many of the series that ended just as the “official” television season came to a close recently. Overview: After turning in one of the most impressive seasons of genre television in recent memory during its fourth season, Supernatural tried to top that with the…
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Surveillance Summer Watch, The West Wing: Reflections on season one
If you’d like to check out previous posts in this series, visit the Surveillance Summer Watch page. I spent a good part of my Memorial Day watching the tail end of The West Wing‘s first season, something that seems like a fitting way for a television nerd to celebrate a very American holiday. Thoughts on the…
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2009-10 season wrap: How I Met Your Mother
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be summarizing my thoughts on many of the series that ended just as the “official” television season came to a close recently. Overview: Season four of How I Met Your Mother was extremely funny and just heartfelt enough from start to finish, really the series at its best. It…
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2009-10 season wrap: The Office
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be summarizing my thoughts on many of the series that ended just as the “official” television season came to a close recently. Overview: I thought season five of The Office was a nice return to form after the mediocre fourth season and had big expectations for what season six…
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2009-10 season wrap: Chuck
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be summarizing my thoughts on many of the series that ended just as the “official” television season came to a close recently. Overview: After much hubbub about whether or not it would actually return for a third season, Chuck did return and delivered an entertaining group of episodes. Thanks…
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Lost, “The End” Part Two — Evaluating character arcs in both universes
I’ve decided to avoid adding more bold sectioned-off updates to my original recap of the Lost series finale, “The End” and start a brand new post. You can view my initial set of ramblings here before jumping in to this post. For starters, I want to discuss the characters, since that’s what the whole episode…
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Fringe, “Over There, Part 2”
In last week’s quick post about “Over There, Part 1” I said that it would be difficult to throw out judgments about the first hour until I’d seen the second. Now having experienced both efforts, I’m surprised to say that the first hour was certainly more effective in terms of expanding the mythology, while the…
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Lost, “What They Died For”
Apologies for the tardiness of this post, as last night was only the second time in Lost history that I missed the first run of an episode. Interestingly, I enjoyed having the night and early this morning to think about what I watched in “What They Died For,” and hopefully that makes this post better.…
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Sandra deserved to win Survivor — Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the social game
Before we get going, some background: I stopped watching Survivor after Palau partially because I felt like I had seen all I needed to from the series and partially because I directed my love for television elsewhere. I returned for Samoa after I heard about the introductory destruction Russell was causing. I had a general…
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What is the legacy of Heroes?
Just like FlashForward, it should surprise no one that NBC has finally canceled Heroes. In four years, the sci-fi drama had a meteoric rise and fall and it’s been lambasted mightily ever since its season one finale. But what will we really remember about Heroes?
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Supernatural, “Swan Song”
Despite its use of demons, angels, urban legends and more, Supernatural has always, always been about family. Sometimes the series’ instance on this is frustrating because we can only take so many scenes with Sam and Dean talking in circles about their feelings. But in tonight’s season — and based on the way it was…
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