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• Embrace the mystery: Is repeat viewing the best way to approach complex TV?

  I actually don't talk about these shows being novelistic because I'm with you. Television is television. What novels are like Arrested Development season four? (I'm sure there are some, but the differences would also be instructive.)

  June 7, 2013 - 8:07 AM

• Over there: 30 foreign series that need immediate legal import to the U.S.

  Welt am Draht is out on Criterion Blu-Ray, so we wrote about that in Monday's inventory.  And good call on The Day Today! I still slightly prefer it to Brass Eye.

  June 5, 2013 - 5:30 AM

• Why Game Of Thrones’ Red Wedding packs such an emotional impact

  Also the escalation. Talisa getting stabbed in the gut several times is a doozy, but that's the kind of horror you might expect. Then Robb? Okay, that's a twist. I gasped. But when Catelyn goes, I vocally exclaimed ...

  June 4, 2013 - 11:01 AM

• “Bork! Bork! Bork!”: 24 foreign-language TV shows you can see (legally) in the U.S.

  Djoneson A list called "24 Foreign Language TV Shows You Can See Legally In The US" without Berlin Alexanderplatz and Fanny and Alexander would have some pretty big holes. Damned if you do and damned if you don't it ...

  June 3, 2013 - 12:13 PM

• You are cordially invited to watch New Girl end its second season while continuing to best all sitcom comers 

  Sorry, no Shield review this week thanks to strep throat. Coverage will pick up next week with a pair of doozies.

  May 14, 2013 - 9:08 AM

• Michael Mann twisted Miami Vice into something thrillingly new

  For me I think Mean Girls is way out front. Especially if we're counting half-watched TBS broadcasts. Second is probably I'm Not There. 

  May 13, 2013 - 5:58 PM