Here's an SNL sketch from last week that takes the usual bitching about your hand-held device, and brings them directly to to the factory workers that made them...

2012

Oct

‘AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM’ IS CRAZY – LIKE A FX By David Bianculli

Despite what FX is calling it, or how the Emmy voters are judging it, American Horror Story is not a miniseries. Nor is it a repertory-company series. But it is fascinating…

2012

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AMC'S AFTER-SHOW FOR 'WALKING DEAD' FANS By Eric Gould

There aren't many shows like AMC's Talking Dead, a live after-show dedicated to the fans of the currently-running scripted drama, The Walking Dead...

2012

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2001: 'SMALLVILLE' SHOWCASES SUPERMAN'S EARLY YEARS By Christy Slewinski

This day in 2001 marked the series premiere of Smallville, which chronicled the life of a young Clark Kent in the years before he adopted his alter ego, Superman...

2012

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2012 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYOFFS By David Bianculli

The New York Yankees lost the first two games in its best-of-seven American League Championship Series against the Detroit Tigers, despite having home-field advantage, and lost team captain Derek Jeter to a brutal ankle injury along the way. Now it’s Game 3, in Detroit – and these tigers, like their feline namesakes, can smell blood.

2012

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2012 PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE By David Bianculli

The conventional wisdom has it that Mitt Romney soundly beat President Barack Obama in their first debate. Now comes the rematch – and whatever happens, don’t expect Obama to be staring down at his podium so much. But do expect Romney to stare at Obama just as often. And here it begins – round two, in a town hall debate setting at Hofstra University. All the broadcast networks but the CW are covering it -- and the usual cable outlets are there as well.

2012

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EMILY OWENS, M.D. By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Mamie Gummer, the daughter of Meryl Streep, stars in this new CW series, which has enough heart, twists and talent to lift it slightly above the rest of this season’s new broadcast TV series. For a full review, see Bianculli’s Blog.

2012

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THE MEN WHO BUILT AMERICA By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This eight-part documentary series looks at a handful of the most influential and wealthy entrepreneurs in American history – men with names like Carnegie and Rockefeller.

2012

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SONS OF ANARCHY By David Bianculli

Last week’s installment of this series dropped my jaw lower than any TV moment this season, thanks to an unbilled, unforgettable guest appearance by Walton Goggins, who’s done such fantastic work already on Justified and The Shield. Reteaming with Kurt Sutter, one of the former writer-producers of The Shield, Goggins showed up playing a transgender escort named Venus Van Damme, who figures in the motorcycle club’s blackmail efforts for a city councilman. Goggins, as Venus, was

2012

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PRESCRIBING MAMIE GUMMER IN 'EMILY OWENS, M.D.' By Ed Bark

Gummer's a gamer, investing her lead character with smarts, compassion and no small amount of discombobulation and making Emily Owens bearable when it's not fully embraceable...

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