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The nooses are tightening, and so are the plot threads. More and more, major characters that we’ve followed separately for years are embarking on paths that will result in a collision course. Family members reunited, sometimes unexpectedly and even unwillingly, as with last week’s sad reunion of siblings – one surrounded by the murderers of her father, the other a broken shell of his former self. And this week, the battle lines continue to be drawn, and redrawn, as the various
 
 
 
  
 
 
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SERIES FINALE: It’s all come down to this. Will this final episode of Matthew Weiner’s Mad Men provide a finite conclusion to the story of Don Draper, or will it just stop, as did The Sopranos (on which Weiner was a writer and producer), and as does life? If I had to guess – and some of my close friends keep trying to get me to do just that – I expect that Don, after a steep fall and scary descent, will emerge on his feet, sitting comfortably in some new situation. Becaus
 
 
 
  
 
 
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In Season 2 of this series, the newest set of supernatural adversaries, the witches, already have proven more powerful – and more creepy and captivating – than the ones in American Horror Story: Coven. And a few episodes in, their battle with our Penny Dreadful band of demon-fighting Scoobys is just getting started. For a full review, see new TVWW contributor Alex Strachan’s TV That Matters.
 
 
 
  
 
 
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This TV project has been in the works for a long time – so long that the late Horton Foote earned a story credit for the screenplay of this biography of blues singer Bessie Smith...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
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This series has gotten extremely tense this season – except for the comic relief about the local election seat...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
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If the NBA playoffs have given you a slight case of pro basketball fever, here’s a documentary that might help...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
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This week’s show features an especially Brit-heavy couch – but that’s not a complaint, because I’ve learned about some talented people early here...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
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SEASON FINALE: Should be a great way to close out the season. Louis C.K. returns as guest host...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
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According to HBO publicity materials, Bessie has been 22 years in the making. The movie charts the ups and downs of a vintage blues singer who died in 1937 at the age of 43...
 
 
 
  
 
 
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It had to happen. Even Bonanza and Gunsmoke had to call it quits eventually. Even so, breaking news from the network upfronts that next season of American Idol will be its swan song came as something of a shock...