The Walkthrough

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  The Walkthrough The New Girl showrunners on topping season two’s big kiss (Part 5 of 5)

  All they needed were a few comedically crummy “first time” stories, a badger, Taylor Swift, and the sense that anything could happen.

  May 15, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  The Walkthrough The New Girl showrunners on solving a season-two puzzle—then re-arranging the pieces

  A late-season groove is slightly disrupted by an order for an additional episode.

  May 14, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  The Walkthrough The New Girl showrunners on building the second season toward its “big kiss”—and the aftermath

  “This is ridiculous. Why are they not making out? Why are they having conversations that married couples have about parents?”

  May 13, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  The Walkthrough The New Girl showrunners on some of season 2’s biggest challenges (Part 2 of 5)

  Long nights, hauling a sleigh up a Los Angeles mountain, and the parts of the female anatomy you can’t show on television—even if they’re on medical charts.

  May 10, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  The Walkthrough The New Girl showrunners on wrangling season two’s first five episodes (Part 1 of 5)

  A trashed première, lessons from Seinfeld vets, notes on jiggling, and other stories from the trenches of the TV season’s best returning comedy.

  May 9, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  The Walkthrough The Americans’ producers walk us through their first-season storylines

  The spy drama unexpectedly became one of the TV season’s highlights.

  May 8, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  The Walkthrough Mike White walks us through Enlightened’s second season (2 of 2)

  “I didn’t want to be writing in reaction to genre; I wanted to write about life.” 

  March 27, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  The Walkthrough Mike White walks us through all of Enlightened’s second season (1 of 2)

  Sadly, this stretch of eight episodes will be the show’s last.

  March 26, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  The Walkthrough Daniel Knauf tells us his plan for the end of Carnivàle

  The cult series’ creator walks us through the four seasons that never existed.

  February 22, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  The Walkthrough Daniel Knauf opens up about Carnivàle’s long, weird journey (1 of 2)

  The cult showrunner discusses the show’s first season—including how Bruce Campbell almost played Brother Justin.

  February 21, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  The Walkthrough Co-creator David Mirkin walks us through cult classic Get A Life (5 of 5)

  “Anyone watching the show is not going to try this. Anyone that would do this, it’s kind of Darwinism. We sort of need them to be gone.”

  October 5, 2012 | 10:00am -

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  The Walkthrough Co-creator David Mirkin walks us through cult classic Get A Life (4 of 5)

  “There was never any network pressure to move [Chris] out of the house. The network pressure was for him to be lucid.”

  October 4, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  The Walkthrough David Mirkin walks us through cult classic Get A Life (3 of 5)

  “An enormous amount of Get A Life could possibly be Chris Peterson’s psychotic fantasy.”

  October 3, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  The Walkthrough Co-creator David Mirkin walks us through cult classic Get A Life (2 of 5)

  “If you’re not going to get a laugh from someone, the second most enjoyable thing is to just upset them.”

  October 2, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  The Walkthrough Co-creator David Mirkin walks us through cult classic Get A Life (1 of 5)

  The first of a five-part series explores the complex origin story of Get A Life’s pilot.

  October 1, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  The Walkthrough Boardwalk Empire showrunner Terence Winter dissects the show’s second season (Part 4 of 4) 

  The series creator on the financial viability of drug dealing and the mindfuck of a season closer. 

  August 30, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  The Walkthrough Boardwalk Empire showrunner Terence Winter dissects the show’s second season (Part 3 of 4)  

  The series creator on dream sequences and Martin Scorsese’s continuing involvement with the show. 

  August 29, 2012 | 10:00am -

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  The Walkthrough Boardwalk Empire showrunner Terence Winter dissects the show’s second season (Part 2 of 4)

  The series creator on unintentional motifs and the limits of historical accuracy. 

  August 28, 2012 | 10:00am -

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  The Walkthrough Boardwalk Empire creator Terence Winter on raising the stakes in season two  

  The first of a four-part series. 

  August 27, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  The Walkthrough Pete And Pete comes to an unexpected expected end (Part 4 of 4) 

  Our walkthrough concludes with the series’ final three episodes. 

  July 6, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  The Walkthrough Exploring The Adventures Of Pete And Pete’s genesis and highlights (Part 3 of 4)

  The creators of the cult-hit Nickelodeon show on Iggy Pop, Nona, and Artie’s departure.

  July 5, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  The Walkthrough Exploring The Adventures Of Pete And Pete’s genesis and highlights (Part 2 of 4) 

  "We probably shouldn’t have had them kiss in the very first episode of the very first season."

  July 4, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  The Walkthrough Exploring The Adventures Of Pete And Pete’s genesis and highlights (Part 1 of 4) 

  Twenty years after its debut, The A.V. Club takes a definitive look at the Nickelodeon show, including Michael Stipe’s cameo and what was cooler than Steve Buscemi. 

  July 3, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  The Walkthrough Showrunner Michael Schur on building Parks And Recreation’s fourth season (Part 5 of 5) 

  “This season was essentially a sports season for Leslie. It’s a competition: There are two teams, and her team is losing, and then they come back.” 

  June 22, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  The Walkthrough Showrunner Michael Schur on building Parks And Recreation’s fourth season (Part 4 of 5) 

  “We do a lot of these meaty stories… And then it’s just like, ‘Well, maybe we should just have Ann and Tom fuck around with each other for a couple episodes, and not everything has to be this gigantic, meaningful thing.’”

  June 21, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  The Walkthrough Showrunner Michael Schur on building Parks And Recreation’s fourth season (Part 3 of 5) 

  “We were really taking that combine harvester and rolling over the whole cornfield that we had planted for three and a half years. And it’s scary.” 

  June 20, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  The Walkthrough Showrunner Michael Schur on building Parks And Recreation’s fourth season (Part 2 of 5) 

  "But it’s really about that first draft, and taking all of the work that the room has done and forging it into a fine blade of Valyrian steel."

  June 19, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  The Walkthrough Showrunner Michael Schur on building Parks And Recreation’s fourth season (Part 1 of 5) 

  From powdered-vagina jokes to Ron Swanson’s take on women, we explore the process of building Parks And Rec’s humor and story arcs. 

  June 18, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  The Walkthrough 30 Rock showrunner Robert Carlock walks us through some recent series highlights

  “I can’t believe we got away with any of it.” 

  May 24, 2012 | 10:00am -

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  The Walkthrough 30 Rock showrunner Robert Carlock walks us through some series highlights (Part 3 of 4) 

  “We tell a lot of jokes. There’s a lot of density of story, and it can be exhausting for us as well, as I’m sure for the viewer.” 

  May 23, 2012 | 12:00am -