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Weeds –“Machetes Up Top”
“Machetes Up Top” June 15th, 2009 Weeds, perhaps more than any other half-hour “comedy”, follows a particularly serialized structure, where almost all of its characters are on separate and...
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Royal Pains –“Strategic Planning”
“Strategic Planning” June 18th, 2009 Ah, the ol’ second episode switcheroo. It happens more than you’d expect, really, for some pretty obvious reasons: when a show is in its infancy and needs to make...
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Weeds –“Su-Su-Sucio”
“Su-Su-Sucio” June 22nd, 2009 Weeds always sits at a perilous crossroads of plot and character development, as the two often aren’t synonymous terms as they relate to the early part of each season. By...
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Royal Pains –“TB or Not TB”
“TB or Not TB” June 25th, 2009 That’s really not the question, Royal Pains. This won’t be a particularly long review, but I do want to make note that the show is on better footing now that it’s back...
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Royal Pains –“No Man is an Island”
“No Man is an Island” July 9th, 2009 Due to some thesis commitments, I’ve actually found myself doing something really strange: not only have I had no time to blog about television, but I’ve even...
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Royal Pains –“It’s Like Jamais Vu All Over Again”
“It’s Like Jamais Vu All Over Again” August 6th, 2009 Alan Sepinwall has often talked about how, with TBS’ My Boys, the season finale cliffhangers are almost always of a nature where he as a critic...
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Royal Pains –“Nobody’s Perfect”
“Nobody’s Perfect” August 20th, 2009 There’s really two trajectories for USA Network series as they approach the end of their first seasons. The first is that they find a second gear, discovering...
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Season Finale: The Leftovers –“The Prodigal Son Returns”
When I dropped in on an episode of The Leftovers at The A.V. Club earlier this season, it was cathartic: after weeks of watching but not writing about the show, it was nice to have a space to confront...
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