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Our Epic Guide to Mid-Season TV

The good, the bad and Napoleon Dynamite. Read more

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Why Hollywood Loves Itself

... And why we love to watch the Golden Globes and other awards shows. Read more

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The Redemption of TV Comedy

Faith, family and meaning are showing up through Parks & Rec, Community an... Read more

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Saying Farewell to the Best Show on TV

It ends tomorrow. Here’s how Friday Night Lights changed the way we watch TV. ... Read more

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  • The Parallels of Person of Interest

    The back story of CBS’s Person of Interest is that a post-9/11 U.S. government commissioned an independent contractor to create technology that would help to identify terrorists, allowing law enforcement officers to prevent crimes. Finch (Michael Emerson) is the independent contractor who created th ...

  • Top Picks for New TV

    Picking favorites from the new shows premiering during the approaching fall television season is like playing the stock market. No one ever really knows which offerings are going to take off and which ones will tank until it happens. But I have to risk it—the prediction of which new television serie ...

  • Lies and Law on Suits

    Toward the end of college, I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with my life—original, I know. But I wasn’t completely sold on the field that my undergraduate major made the obvious choice, and suddenly, I wanted a greater challenge. I wanted to know and push what I was capable of. During that time, I ...

  • We All Wipeout Sometimes

    About a year ago, a couple of readers commented on my RELEVANT magazine summer television viewing recommendations asking why I had left out ABC’s Wipeout. I’m not going to lie: At first I dismissed the show as mindless television viewing at its best (which it is) and couldn’t imagine ever writing ab ...

  • Burn Notice and Life's Dead Ends

    For the past four years, Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan) has been looking for answers on USA Network’s Burn Notice. Piece by piece, he has worked his way up the ladder through all the middlemen. With every achievement, his desperation for an explanation as to why his life has been turned upside dow ...