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“Lights Out” Pulls Punches
F/X’s big midseason drama “Lights Out” is tough and riddled with potential, but has yet to overcome uneven execution. The show winds around former heavyweight champion of the world, Patrick …
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Walk The Dead
The Walking Dead, otherwise known as AMC’s latest story that matters, is a zombiepocalypse masterpiece. Based on a graphic novel of the same name, series developer Frank Darabont, has distilled …
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Pinocchio Said He Was a Real Boy
Reality television never really did it for me. It being the scintillating vis-a-vis titillating effect reality is supposed to produce in viewers 18-49. I suppose the “appeal” (a more accurate …
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The Good, The Bad, The Remote
There should be an opening day for television. There should be some kind of hero’s parade/welcome/that scene in Gladiator when Commodus returns from Germania. Then, when a hush has fallen …
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Premiere Review: “Boardwalk Empire”
HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire” is an expensive, height-aspiring prohibition drama that might just be dead in the water. Yes, I am taking a negative stance on a Terence Winter (“The Sopranos”) …
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Not Oprah’s Book Club
The woman is too powerful. She controls a massive percentage of the uterine population, and their unborn children. This is a (book club) revolution. It will not be televised. Can …
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The Best Show You’re Not Watching: “Sons of Anarchy”
F/X’s “Sons of Anarchy” is a grit-fueled, in your face wedge of backwater California underbelly. Let me paint you a picture: stagnant San Joaquin Valley town called Charming, ruled by …
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Beach Reads For People Who Don’t Beach Read
Sun is good. A cold Corona buzz is good. Tanning up that pastiness is good. Potential sunglass tan, not ideal but acceptable. I like raccoons. Bringing out some strategically colored, …
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