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America’s not the greatest nation in the world anymore, but it can be, according to Aaron Sorkin Will McAvoy and Mackenzie MacHale. Likewise, The Newsroom doesn’t have the most compelling premiere episode in television history, and it isn’t even the best pilot of a Sorkin series. Yet with an engaging news program grounding the narrative and cast committed to their work, there’s enough promise in the pilot to recommend the series.
Let’s break it down…
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Week three of True Blood sorts itself out as the narratives begin to gel and most everyone gets something useful to do.
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It’s Vegas week on So You Think You Can Dance and we start our coverage of Season 9 with some thoughts and predictions of who will be in our Top 20.
A pretty straightforward this season – some tears, medical dramas and plenty of amazing dancing. Let’s take a closer look after the jump.
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Dallas 2.0 continues its reboot update as everyone decides to move back into Southfork like some kind of adult sleepover party. What brings this on? Oh, who cares? You just want to know if Jesse Metcalfe shows his male-underoos again (He doesn’t).
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You know you’ve got a special heroine when she recognizes quotes from Gilbert and Sullivan musicals and speaks in iambic pentameter when nervous. This week The West Wing welcomes Emily Procter’s Ainsley Hayes, one of the series’ most memorable guest stars.
“What’s next?” Find out after the jump…
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Well he is definitely dead. After last week’s curve ball of an ending, some wondered if they had really killed him off. Well they did! So this week Michelle (Sutton Foster) and Fanny (Kelly Bishop) were left to pick up the pieces and try to prepare a service that would be dignified and a real celebration of Hubble’s (Alan Ruck) life. Unfortunately Fanny took some crazy pills and tried to rend out the Intrepid. Let’s discuss.
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Lost Girl resorts to a tried and true sci-fi narrative device – the body swap – to produce the best episode of its second season.
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In what seemed like a Twilight Zone episode of Girls, Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet) finally lost her virginity, Marnie (Allison Williams) made out with Bobby Moynihan, Jessa (Jemima Kirke) got married, and I finally started to like Adam (Adam Driver). Now I am really scaring myself. Let’s discuss.
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Continuum‘s fourth episode veers slightly away from its formula of focusing on the Liber8 crew to explore a procedural with a twist. What are the results?
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After last week’s “set-up” premiere episode, I was interested to see whether True Blood could manage to keep all of its balls in the air considering that they have more in play than ever before. And now, having seen the second episode, it’s clear that certain stories are coming along well, while others…could use a little TLC.
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