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July 14, 2015
What’s the Downside to Marathon-Viewing? You really should be watching Rectify , you know.
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July 7, 2015
Is True Detective Our New Hate-Watch? Do we watch with a combination of fascination and horror?
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June 30, 2015
Why Do So Many TV Rom-Coms Fail? As in life, timing is everything.
Amazon’s Catastrophe Is the Romantic Comedy of the Year You’ll smile whenever you say the title; the show’s first season, a brisk six episodes, leaves you no other option, because it’s so damn likable.
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June 26, 2015
The Best Show of the Year Is Mad Men As Best Show — a category that transcends craft and implies a connection to the Zeitgeist — no other series came close.
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June 26, 2015
The Best Comedy of the Year Is Inside Amy Schumer One of the only current comedy programs that deserves to be called important.
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June 26, 2015
The Best Drama of the Year Is The Americans Week in and week out, no U.S. drama is more exactingly calibrated than this blue-gray chamber piece.
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June 26, 2015
The Best Male Drama Performer of the Year Is André Holland You always know what his character is feeling, but never what he’s going to do next.
in conversation
June 25, 2015
Bryan Fuller on Hannibal ’s ‘Cancellation’ and S4 “The idea that I have for season four is so terrifying creatively.”
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June 24, 2015
The Year’s Best Series Finale Goes to Mad Men This finale came close to being all things to all people.
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June 24, 2015
The Year’s Best Scene Goes to The Americans Matt Zoller Seitz provides audio commentary for our pick.
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June 23, 2015
Orange Is the New Black ’s Silent Norma SpeaksPlus, why it feels like True Detective had a humorectomy.
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June 22, 2015
The Best New Comedy of the Year Is Black-ish This is the first sitcom that entirely ignores the idea that black characters’ stories must be mediated for white viewers’ sensibilities.
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June 22, 2015
The Year’s Best Direction Goes to The Knick Matt Zoller Seitz provides audio commentary for our pick.
There Are Better Ways to Spend Your Time Than The Brink It’s been a while since I’ve seen so much acting, writing, and directing talent expended on a show that makes such a weak impression.
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June 16, 2015
Why Game of Thrones Is a Shakespearean Drama for 9-Year-Olds In this week’s podcast, show-watchers review the finale and book-readers explain it.
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June 15, 2015
No One Involved With GOT Is Safe, Fans Included Even the feel-good moments often involve death.
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June 9, 2015
When Is TV Violence ‘Okay’? “Hannibal is a life-affirming show about serial killers.”
final thoughts
May 22, 2015
Mad Men Understood Human Behavior Better Than Any Show on TVWhile the leopard cannot change all of its spots, changing one or two might not be out of the question.
David Letterman’s Lasting Impact: A Smudge on the Collective Unconscious The real-time creation of a talk show was every Letterman broadcast’s true subject.
How the Mad Men Pilot Predicted the Final Episodes of the Series Watching “Smoke” again, it’s become increasingly clear that the pilot has the ring of prophecy.
Mad Men Recap: The Song Fades Out“The Milk and Honey Route” felt like the second-to-last bar of a song that’s about to fade out rather than end.
David Chase on the Legacy of Twin Peaks The Sopranos creator talks to Matt Zoller Seitz about the surreal brilliance of (the hopefully returning!) series.
David Chase on the Legacy of Twin Peaks The Sopranos creator talks to Matt Zoller Seitz about the surreal brilliance of (the hopefully returning!) series.
Mad Men Recap: ‘Women Love It Here’A sense of finality hung over this episode, and it was more purgatorial or hellish than heavenly.
Mad Men Recap: ‘I Thought We Were Safe’The end of SC&P wasn’t supposed to come quite like this.
close reads
Apr. 23, 2015
Mother Russia and Uncle Sam: The Americans ’ Many Overbearing Parents Every institution, as well as every character, is at some point defined as a parent or a child.
Mad Men Recap: Whistling Through the GraveyardThe series is uncertain about its future, and tacitly admits as much.
Justified Cuts to BlackThe surprising and delightful finale of Justified.
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Apr. 14, 2015
Mad Men Recap: That’s What the Money Is ForDon is a sexual version of the boy who cried wolf, a parable that shows how liars are rewarded.
Game of Thrones Season 5 Takes Its Cues From The Godfather Thrones earns the right to think of itself as doing for sword and sorcery what Coppola’s Godfather trilogy did for the gangster picture.
Veep Season 4 Review: The President’s Flying MonkeysLouis-Dreyfus is her usual Swiss-watch self, so confident that she seems to glide through her scenes.
The Comedians ’ Theater of Pain Might Be Worth It, If You Can Stick It OutPerhaps this show just needed time to figure itself out — but man, does it test your patience.
Justified Recap: Psychiatric Help, 5 Bullets“You are the world-conquering emperor of lies.”
‘Stingers’ Is One of the Finest Episodes of The Americans Yet At once characteristic and uncharacteristic of everything this series does well.
Justified Recap: Plan BJustified is damn close to having a perfect track record during this final stretch.
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