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ABC How to Get Away With Murder Is Saving Scandal From Itself
ABC needs a monster hit that gets strong social media buzz on Thursday nights—and luckily for Scandal, another show is shouldering that burden this season.
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Michele K. Short/FX American Horror Story: Freak Show Has Given Into the Madness
This season finally embraced the series' anarchic spirit—testing viewers' patience for better or worse.
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BBC America The Trouble With Teaching Doctor Who
A professor of "Doctor Who Studies" says serious gender analysis often devolves into fannish classroom debates over which Who is better.
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Fox Gotham Should Just Be Renamed The Penguin Show
The cops are proving more and more ineffectual, but the villain's mob-war scheming is fun to watch.
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CBS The Good Wife: Alicia Gets a Worthy Rival (Finally)
Just when it seemed like the State's Attorney race was set to be a dull affair, David Hyde Pierce raises the stakes.
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Gene Page/AMC The Walking Dead and the High Cost of Safety
Dissecting "Slabtown," the fourth episode of the fifth season
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HBO Olive Kitteridge: Have Some Comedy With Your Post-Recession Misery
HBO's latest Emmys-bound miniseries features a magnificently wry Frances McDormand.
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Michele K. Short/FX American Horror Story: Freak Show Gets a New Villain
Turns out there's someone scarier than Twisty the Clown.
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ABC Gay Sex on How to Get Away With Murder: Offensive, Crass, and Smart
This is a show full of people indulging in their worst behaviors, so regressive "bottom shaming" isn't irresponsible writing. It's consistent.
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Jessica Miglio/Fox Gotham Succumbs to a Serial Killer
The sixth episode offered more evidence that the show needs to drop the cop-TV cliches.
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Jeff Neumann/CBS Alicia's Little White Lies Get Bigger on The Good Wife
The show continues to explore the idea of ethical compromise as its hero runs for State's Attorney and tries to reverse her public stance as an atheist.
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Gene Page/AMC The Walking Dead: Bloodbaths and Barbecues
Dissecting "Four Walls and a Roof," the third episode of the fifth season
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Disney/Lucasfilm Rebels: A New Hope for Star Wars
The franchise's first work to emerge after Lucasfilm's sale to Disney suggests that losing George Lucas was just what the galaxy far, far away needed.
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ABC Scandal: Still Grieving
Four episodes into its latest season, Scandal has yet to shake off the ghosts of storylines past.
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NBC The Fall of the House of Simpson
Ashlee Simpson's lip-sync debacle on Saturday Night Live a decade ago was the beginning of the end for her—and for her family, once a celebreality dynasty in the making.
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Michele K. Short/FX American Horror Story: Freak Show Pits Freak Against Freak
The fourth season dives deep into questions of exploitation versus celebrity, and survival versus meaning.
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Fox How Gotham Could Get Good
Five episodes in, the Fox show is a weird, intriguing mess. Here's hoping it gets weirder.
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The CW The Flash: A Welcome Anti-Vigilante
DC Comics' CW show for young adults defies the trend of turning superheroes into antiheroes.
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CBS Alicia in Charge: The Good Wife Comes Full Circle
As its protagonist wrests control from the men in her life, the show's never been better.
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Showtime Homeland: Carrie Gets Even Worse
Season 4's latest twist is sexual, horrifying, and all too familiar.
