Tag: The Chicago Code
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2011 Dream Emmy Ballot: Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
It’s that time again, folks. The Emmy nominations will be announced on July 14, which means I have almost an entire month to flood this space with hopes, dreams and predictions about what could happen come nomination time. To kick things off, I’ll be bringing back the Dream Emmy Ballot. It’s something I did last […]
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2011 Dream Emmy Ballot: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
It’s that time again, folks. The Emmy nominations will be announced on July 14, which means I have almost an entire month to flood this space with hopes, dreams and predictions about what could happen come nomination time. To kick things off, I’ll be bringing back the Dream Emmy Ballot. It’s something I did last […]
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2011 Dream Emmy Ballot: Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
It’s that time again, folks. The Emmy nominations will be announced on July 14, which means I have almost an entire month to flood this space with hopes, dreams and predictions about what could happen come nomination time. To kick things off, I’ll be bringing back the Dream Emmy Ballot. It’s something I did last […]
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2010-2011 season wrap: The top 10 series of the season
The 2010-2011 television series officially ended last week. Obviously, there will be a lot of great television coming in the summer months ahead and it is sort of silly to stick to the ancient constructs of the broadcast television season (which ran from September 20, 2010 to May 25, 2011 this season), but I’ve never […]
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Surveillance Spring Stumping: Why FOX should renew The Chicago Code
It’s May, which means we’re very close to the network upfronts. Choices about which series live and which series die are probably being made right now by all the major networks. This of course means it’s time for fans and critics to start stumping for their favorite series stuck on the bubble between cancellation and […]
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The Chicago Code, “St. Valentine’s Day”
This review is going to be short, not a lot of time this afternoon. If The Chicago Code is going to succeed in the long-term, it has to do one of two things: A.) Either make Delroy Lindo’s Gibbons the most intelligent and cunning corrupt politician of all-time (and thus impossible to catch) or B.) […]
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The Chicago Code, “Wild Onions”
Heat wave episodes are fun. It’s a go-to gimmick for television series, but one of the better ones. “The heat makes people do crazy things!” is an easy, but effective premise to start building an episode around, especially on a police drama that requires people to do crazy things on a weekly basis. The Chicago […]
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Stuck in the middle — The failure of the complex, restrained television series
Let’s play pretend for a moment (since I planned on writing this column had this thing we’re pretending about actually happened), if you don’t mind. Let us assume for the sake of argument that AMC’s fantastic new drama series The Killing didn’t open to nearly 3 million viewers, which is a sizable success for the […]
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The Chicago Code, “Cabrini-Green”
The Chicago Code is so close to becoming a really great television series, but every week there are some random shortcuts or plot issues that bring individual episodes down just enough to annoy or frustrate me. This week’s effort, “Cabrini-Green,” is absolutely no different. There is so much to like about Code. I think all […]
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The Chicago Code, “Hog Butcher”
As I and other, real critics like to talk about, second episodes are tricky, especially for series’ with a lot going on. Pilots are intended to hook the viewers in with great characters, big moments and a nice, established world, but when the second episode rolls around, it’s time to really think about what the […]