It was a fiery night and electrifying television.
Television
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Breaking Bad TV Expectations
Skyler White and other anti-hero wives have been doused in haterade lately instead of getting the sympathy they deserve.
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The Incongruous Olympics
Will the Olympics be a break from Europe and England’s problems, or make them more vivid?
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Sorkin’s Newsroom
Journalists hate the new HBO show it for exactly the reason they should love it.
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Can Broadcasters Use Dirty Words? Court says, “#$%& If We Know”
In what is literally its most visible case of the Term, seven justices duck the free-speech issue.
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The Blander Bush
HBO’s 41 asks none of the hard questions about George H.W. Bush’s uninspired career
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Mad Men’s Shark Week
This season hasn’t lived up to our reviewer’s high expectations.