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E! The Upside of Bad Plastic Surgery
E!'s reality series Botched! is ghastly, mean, and important.
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Netflix Orange Is the New Black's Irresponsible Portrayal of Men
The victims of the prison system the Netflix show satirizes are overwhelmingly male. Leaving them out reinforces old stereotypes that hurt both genders.
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The Leftovers, Our Town, and the Brutal Power of Ordinary Details
Author Tom Perrotta, co-creator of a much-hyped new HBO drama, says Thornton Wilder's play taught him to write about finding meaning in the banal.
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HBO, Helen Sloan The Sorry State of Closed Captioning
Streaming video now must provide subtitles for the hearing impaired. There's no guarantee of accuracy, though. One solution: crowdsourcing.
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HBO The Miniseries Is Dead (Long Live the Miniseries!)
Why won't TV execs use the m-word to describe shows like True Detective and Extant?
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HBO The Game of Thrones Finale: Too Much Good Stuff?
Our roundtable on "The Children," the 10th episode of the fourth season of the HBO show.
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Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters A Cord Cutter's Guide to Watching the World Cup
How and where to watch the games for free
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AP Benedict Cumberbatch and the Changing Face of Hollywood
He doesn't quite look like a superstar, but talent, unconventional features, and the power of the Internet have made him into one.
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Lacey Terrell/AP American Political Satire: Wimpy
Veep mocks and House of Cards villainizes—but next to their truly cynical UK counterparts, they almost seem saccharine. What does that say about the States?
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Kevin Lamarque/Reuters The Spelling Bee: America’s Great Racial Freaks-and-Geeks Show
When the public tunes in to see Indian Americans dominate the Scripps competition, is it to cheer for the precocious minority kids—or to gawk at them?
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HBO Game of Thrones: A Spectacular Battle, With One Big Disappointment
Our roundtable on "The Watchers on the Wall," the ninth episode of the fourth season of the HBO show.
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Netflix The Orange Is the New Black Binge Review (Episodes 1 Through 13)
A continuously updated account of watching the 13 new installments of Netflix's jailhouse dramedy
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NBC The Forgotten Bliss of Feeling Loyal to a TV Network
The joy I get from NBC's old peacock promos reminds me of what's lost now that everyone watches what they want, whenever they want, however they want.
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New World Pictures A Lewd Reminder of How Tame Orange Is the New Black Really Is
Jonathan Demme's Caged Heat, 40 this year, showed the radical political potential—and, yes, sexually exploitative side—of the women-in-prison genre.
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HBO The Real Medieval History Behind Game of Thrones' Trial by Combat
The Mountain and the Viper fought savagely, but so did people in middle-ages judicial affairs.
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Macall B. Polay / HBO Why That Game of Thrones Fight Scene Was So Brutal to Watch
Our roundtable on "The Mountain and the Viper," the eighth episode of the fourth season of the HBO show.
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FX Louie's Deeply Sad Flashback
What did the glimpse of younger Louie in "Elevator Part 4" mean for the rest of the show?
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HBO Game of Thrones: Spoiler-y Speculation, Take Two
What’s (probably) in store for the final episodes
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Jeopardy Productions Inc. The Atlantic on Jeopardy
Answers and questions from the magazine's 157 years of publishing
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AMC Mad Men's Mid-Season Finale: One Giant Leap for Peggy Olson
Dissecting "Waterloo," the seventh episode of the seventh season
