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Tony Shalhoub’s Adrian Monk (from Monk) is one of the sweetest, smartest, and most unfairly tortured TV characters…
Sep 22 2019
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Finally: TV’s biggest night! The one time of the year when everybody takes a moment to recognize that, yes, TV is…
Apr 5 2019
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The reigning Outstanding Comedy Series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel returns for its third season later this year. In…
Dec 7 2018
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“Let’s Face the Music and Dance” is an episode about intimacy of all kinds: between parents and their children,…
Dec 7 2018
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Throughout the first half of season 2, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel has not only transported viewers to faraway places,…
Dec 6 2018
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The opening of “We’re Going To The Catskills” is so delightfully twee and symmetrical that I wondered if I…
Dec 5 2018
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“Midway To Midtown” explore the seductive power of fantasy, starting with an incredibly whimsical montage of Susie…
Dec 4 2018
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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel looks both backward and forward: It offers a nostalgically frothy, sherbet-pastel 1950s…
Aug 13 2018
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Tony Shalhoub plays buttoned-up exceptionally well—his repressed, depressed Adrian Monk is the most memorable…
Nov 28 2017
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Amy Sherman-Palladino’s TV creations have always evoked a romantically vintage feel, like the beloved cozy world of G…
Jul 2 2016
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Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They…
Jun 27 2016
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Man, these space ants are a disorganized bunch. As BrainDead’s main threat (just a shade ahead of the hopelessly…
Jun 20 2016
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So just what do these space-bugs want, anyway?
Jun 14 2016
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BrainDead, the new sci-fi political satire from The Good Wife creators Robert King and Michelle King, begins with…
Jun 13 2016
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In a time when there are more worthy hours of television than there are hours in the day, it would be a relief if…
Nov 23 2015
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Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week:…
Feb 3 2015
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For most of the history of television, the barrier to syndication—and to profitability—has been 100 episodes. The…
Aug 20 2014
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Few celebrities these days are lucky enough to have the kind of smoldering attractiveness that makes everyone stop…
Jun 23 2014
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