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Double Trouble on Leverage

Buffy didn’t react well to another Slayer in town. Mulder and Scully never played well with other Agents. So it should come as a surprise to absolutely no one that the Leverage team reacts poorly when another crew challenges their title of Most Awesome Con Artists. There’s a lot to love about this episode, but [...]

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You Can’t Stop the Firefly Signal

The trend for overstatement in television is remarkable. Calling this or that the most stunning, dramatic, funny, or romantic event in history is bandied about without much thought going into whether it’s an accurate statement. So I hope you won’t think I’m unaware of the import of my words when I say that Firefly is [...]

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The House That Castle Built

Castle should not be as entertaining as it is. For starters, it follows the ‘Bones’ school of procedural drama by not being much of a procedural or a drama. Yet rather than rendering it a mess, by focusing on humor and character over gore and science, Castle differentiates itself from the traditional cop shows on [...]

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America Has Talent. Really.

In the early stages, it sometimes seems like it should be called, America’s Got Talent? But once you weed out the amateurs, the competition actually gets interesting. Right now we’re at the stage where we don’t recognize people by their names yet. Instead, they’re “the magician” and “the dancers with the freakishly strong chick” and [...]

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Who Cares How I Met Your Mother?

As most of my fellow avid TV watchers know, the regular network television season is on hiatus. And while that offers a lot of opportunity for the cable networks to entertain us (to say nothing of the cracktastic reality shows currently running), a girl can’t help but feel a certain longing for some of her [...]

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