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Posted Saturday 1/29/22 at 5:28AM EST
Prestige TV shows about hope are all the rage as the era of the anti-heroes goes away
Station Eleven, Squid Game, Ted Lasso, Mare of Easttown and WandaVision are among the shows ultimately offering hope as a...
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Posted Saturday 1/22/22 at 4:41AM EST
Presenting the best historical shows for every era
The Great is the best show set in the 1700s, while Underground and Deadwood are tops when it comes to...
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TV in 2021 painted a bleak picture of wealth, from Squid Game to Succession to The White Lotus
Squid Game's "incredibly bleak message – that people find the odds of surviving a sadistic game more favorable than achieving...
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Posted Friday 12/24/21 at 2:15AM EST
2021 was a good year in TV -- and a bad year in TV
"It was an everything year in TV because TV is too many things now," says Kathryn VanArendonk in a year-end...
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Posted Saturday 11/20/21 at 5:52AM EST
Peak TV has turned into Peak Redundancy: Television has become littered with knockoff shows
Nearly three years ago, Netflix and Hulu raised eyebrows with dueling documentaries about the Fyre Festival released four days apart.
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Posted Saturday 10/02/21 at 4:37AM EDT
Presenting the "Magical Episode 4 Theory": Viewers should wait four episodes before giving up on a show
"The fourth episode is usually when a show 'clicks' behind the scenes, according to the experts," explains Shirley Li.
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Posted Saturday 9/11/21 at 2:39AM EDT
If the age of blockbuster TV is over, the coming season has not been informed
Game of Thrones' series finale in 2019 was supposed to signal the end of water-cooler shows that appealed to a...
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Nine Perfect Strangers seems like it was written by a Prestige TV algorithm
"Prestige television is omnipresent at this point," says Scacchi Koul.
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Posted Saturday 7/17/21 at 4:03AM EDT
TV adaptations are having a profound influence on the book publishing industry
"If you want a preview of next year’s Emmy Awards, just take a walk past your local bookstore," explain The...
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Posted Saturday 7/03/21 at 2:20AM EDT
Why the limited series is so great: They offer a different kind of storytelling
The limited series/miniseries, says Matthew Gilbert, are "even better than series, in certain ways, because of their concision, their intrinsic...
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The universal TV hit appears to be dead in the streaming era
"On one level, Mare of Easttown was a smashing success," says The Washington Post's Steven Zeitchik.
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Posted Monday 6/21/21 at 1:28PM EDT
Willem Dafoe explains the difference between TV and movies and why he doesn't work on the small screen
"The definition between those two gets a little fuzzy, but the one thing that remains pretty consistent is stuff that’s...
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Posted Saturday 6/19/21 at 4:05AM EDT
Presenting the 21 best TV comedies of the century so far
The New York Times' list includes The Office, Curb Your Enthusiasm, 30 Rock, Louie, Bob's Burgers, Chappelle's Show, It's Always...
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P-Valley reclaims stripping from a tired trope in Prestige TV dramas
The Sopranos famously used the Bada Bing for scenes in which Tony Soprano and his mob colleagues "talk serious man...
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Posted Saturday 9/05/20 at 4:00AM EDT
The good and bad of Prestige TV bottle episodes
With Saturday marking the 10th anniversary of the Mad Men bottle episode "The Suitcase," Miles Surrey writes: "On the surface,...