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Duncan C/Flickr/The Atlantic Americans Have Always Felt Guilty About TV Watching
The reasons why people feel bad have shifted over the decades.
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The CW The Lois Lane Problem: Enough With Clueless TV Sidekicks
The Flash's Iris West is the latest supporting character to be kept in the dark about crucial info—and thus forced to become a killjoy.
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FOX Lost in a Messy Mob War, Gotham Hits the Reboot Button
Just as the main plot gets mind-numbingly complicated, the mid-season finale shakes things up.
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CBS More Evidence The Good Wife Is One of TV's Best Shows
For its dazzling mid-season finale, the series spotlights the turbulent points of view of five different players involved in Cary's trial.
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HBO The Newsroom Has Fun Promising the Apocalypse
The show's continued embrace of virtual history this week sees a government official telling the public that humanity's doom has already been sealed.
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Gene Page/AMC Give Thanks for The Walking Dead's Resurrection
Dissecting "Crossed," the seventh episode of the fifth season
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Starz The Missing: Too Beautiful to Be So Unwatchable
Starz's new missing-child miniseries features exquisite shots, for those with the emotional fortitude to keep watching.
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Fox Two-Face Is Not Ready for His Close-Up, Gotham
The show piles on yet another half-baked prequel version of a Batman villain, which is the last thing it needs.
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CBS The Good Wife: Private Despair, Public Affairs
As it's dropped its "legal case of the week" plot structure, The Good Wife has become the most engrossing serialized drama on television.
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HBO The Newsroom Is Getting Faker, Thank Goodness
The final season's main storyline isn't actually ripped from the headlines, which means a rare opportunity for real suspense on the HBO show.
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Gene Page/AMC The Walking Dead and the Long Road to Redemption
Dissecting "Consumed," the sixth episode of the fifth season
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Gage Skidmore/Flickr Is Elle Fanning Taking a Role From a Transgender Actor?
It's a question that requires a lot of context to answer.
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Michele K. Short/FX American Horror Story: Freak Show Hits a Mid-Season Lull
Dandy's right: Being bored is the worst.
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Fox The Gotham Problem: Who Cares Where Superheroes Come From?
The origin story for Batman isn't so interesting. The origin story for his city, on the other hand ...
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David Bloomer/Showtime Homeland: Now Making Fun of Itself on Sunday Nights
Last night's guest appearance was a ploy for attention that only points out how far the show has fallen.
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CBS Kalinda Is Becoming Irrelevant on The Good Wife
The show's other characters continue to evolve, but she seems stuck.
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Gene Page/AMC The Walking Dead: Back to Bleak
Dissecting "Self Help," the fifth episode of the fifth season
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BBC America The Doctor Who Season Where the Doctor Wasn't the Star
Companion Clara propelled the action in Series Eight, even if she was kind of a jerk.
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BBC Films Page Eight: A Brilliant Bill Nighy Spy Movie You've Probably Never Seen
There's still time to watch it before the sequel airs on PBS Sunday.
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HBO The Newsroom Might Finally Show Some Self-Awareness This Season
As News Night's fictional ratings decline, Aaron Sorkin's often-ponderous HBO drama starts to address the pitfalls of idealism.
