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The Leftovers is Stale

by Tony Shea July 1, 2014

Last Sunday night marked the debut of Damon Lindelof’s eagerly anticipated new show,“The Leftovers,” on HBO. Lindelof is of course most famous for having created and written many episodes of the game changing ABC series Lost, which was a show essentially concerned with ideas – and not a procedural cop show or courtroom law show or […]

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Chronicles of the Underrated: WWE Wrestler

by Mike Monroe March 5, 2014

So you may be asking yourself “Are we really doing this?”  Wrestling’s fake, right?  So how could there possibly be a most underrated professional wrestler?  Like many as a child, I was one day confronted with the world-shattering news that Hulk Hogan wasn’t really beating anyone up.  It wasn’t quite as bad as when I […]

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Burbank Bids Bon Voyage to Jay Leno and the Tonight Show

by Tony Shea February 6, 2014

Today marks the end of an era in Burbank not only for Jay Leno but for the Tonight Show itself, which will be moving to New York for its new host, Jimmy Fallon.

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Matthew McConaughey Caps Outstanding Year with True Detective

by Tony Shea February 5, 2014

Matthew McConaughey has always been an actor who never quite seemed to resonate with me. I suppose I liked him in Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused, but that was before he was “Matthew McConaughey” the brand name, constantly pictured on the cover of US weekly with his ripped abs surfing in Malibu, the “Matthew McConaughey” […]

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Ray Donovan Is the Best New Show on TV

by Tony Shea July 28, 2013

As a typical rule of thumb, I’m an HBO man rather than a Showtime one. The look and feel of HBO shows like Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones, and True Blood is more to my taste – shinier, funnier, and generally more fun than their counterparts on Showtime, which tend to have an inherent darkness […]

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Why True Blood Sucks, or Doesn’t Suck, or Does…

by Tony Shea July 16, 2013

It was announced yesterday that True Blood will be back on HBO for a 7th season. I’ve watched every episode of True Blood so far. Wait, I forgot I missed some episodes in season three. And maybe some in season five. But wait, I watched them over that long weekend, remember? But wait, I forgot […]

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Game of Thrones Rules

by Tony Shea June 10, 2013

I have not read any of the books in George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones series. I have not read any of them because they are like cropped phone books, a thousand pages long, set in four point type. I figure it will take about a semester to read one of them, which is to […]

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The Best Cop Show on TV

by Tony Shea March 3, 2013

Southland is now in the third week of its new season on TNT. Created by Ann Biderman and produced, in part, by John Wells of ER, The West Wing, and Shameless fame, Southland makes a strong case for being the finest police drama on television. Now in its fifth season, the show had something of […]

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