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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2013
Feb
27
'BOSTON'S FINEST': THE RIGHT FORMULA FOR REALITY By Eric Gould
 
 
From the outset, the new series isn't just a rehash of the Cops-style antics, but a worthwhile look at the job of law and order...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Feb
23
'DOWNTON ABBEY' AND THE MOTHER OF ALL TROPES By Eric Gould
 
 
This year's Downton Abbey finale was all the talk this week, and we're not immune. It finished with one of the more rehashed plot devices known, but we love it anyway...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Feb
22
'OUT THERE' BRINGS SMALL TOWN FRINGE, AND FUR, TO IFC By Eric Gould
 
 
The new animated comedy shoots pretty straight, travels some coming-of-age territory, and keeps the gross-out stuff, thankfully, to a minimum...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Feb
18
WILL CW'S META-META 'CULT' BE MORE THAN A CULT SHOW? By Eric Gould
 
 
The new CW mystery-thriller has an inventive structure, and just might have enough smarts to create its own buzz and build more than an, er, cult following...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Feb
16
DECONSTRUCTING "ONE MAN'S TRASH" By Eric Gould
 
 
As Girls returns, perhaps, to its usual ensemble format this Sunday, the TV intelligentsia was atwitter — and rightfully so — over last week's episode "One Man's Trash"...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Feb
13
TNT BRINGS THE BEST OF COPS, SCRIPTED AND UNSCRIPTED By Eric Gould
 
 
Cable's TNT rolls out Southland for its fifth season and will premiere the new reality cop series Boston's Finest in two weeks...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Feb
11
HOUSE OF CARDS SHOWS THE UNFORTUNATE FUTURE OF JOURNALISM – AND ITS OFFICE SPACE By Eric Gould
 
 
As good as Kevin Spacey is — and he is great — House of Cards suffers a few contrivances that seem hasty. Like blogger website offices...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Feb
6
WHEN PETE CAMPBELL STARTS CASTING HIMSELF By Eric Gould
 
 
No, that's not Peter Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser) from Mad Men in AT&T's "It's Not Complicated" 4G network campaign, but if it walks like a Pete, and talks like a Pete, then it's a Pete...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Feb
4
MEDICAL DRAMA 'MONDAY MORNINGS' PUTS DOCS UNDER THE EXAM ROOM GLARE By Eric Gould
 
 
The latest David E. Kelley offering premiering on TNT shows us cases gone wrong getting dissected in M&M conferences - short for Morbidity and Mortality...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2013
Jan
29
GOOD DOC, BAD DOC: NBC'S 'DO NO HARM' REVS UP JEKYLL AND HYDE By Eric Gould
 
 
Dr. Jason Cole is at war with himself. Literally...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
New From TVWW

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'
By Ed Bark
 
 
 
 
Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver
By Christy Slewinski
 
 
 
 
'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy
By Noel Holston
 
 
 
 

Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James
By Mike Hughes
 
 
 
 
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self
By Monique Nazareth
 
 
 
 
Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption
By David Hinckley