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John Shearer / AP Internet TV Was the Big Loser on Oscar Night
ABC’s live stream of the 86th Academy Awards highlighted the huge gap between internet TV’s promise and its glitchy reality.
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HBO True Detective Reinvents Itself, Again
How in the world is this show going to end? Our roundtable discusses “After You've Gone,” the seventh installment in HBO's series
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Evan Agostini / AP What Star Wars' Casting of Adam Driver Says About Hollywood
Girls' first breakout film star is a guy—further evidence that television shows are a more progressive, inclusive, diverse medium than movies are.
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FX The Americans Is the Realest, and Scariest, Spy Show on TV
"Comrades," the second-season premiere, raises the FX series' stakes by making its secret agents face a universal fear.
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HBO The False Depth of Dudes: Why Girls' Guys Are All So Ridiculous
Our roundtable discusses "Incidentals," the eighth episode of the HBO show's third season.
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HBO True Detective's First Disappointing Episode
Has the show always been this unsubtle? Our roundtable discusses “Haunted Houses,” the sixth installment in HBO's series
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HBO Before True Detective: The Short Stories of Nic Pizzolatto
The first published works from the creator of the best show on television were dark, philosophical pieces of fiction in The Atlantic.
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Elise Amendola / AP When, Exactly, Does Watching a Lot of Netflix Become a 'Binge'?
Two episodes? Four? Crowdsourcing a new definition for a popular buzzword
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HBO Girls Is Right: Friendships Are More Dramatic Than Romances
Our roundtable discusses "Beach House," the seventh episode of the HBO show's third season.
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HBO True Detective Is Changing—but for the Better, or for the Worse?
And: Is this show going to make evangelical Christians into villains? Our roundtable discusses “The Secret Fate of All Life,” the fifth episode in HBO's series
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Netflix House of Cards Season 2: The Live-Binge Review (Episodes 1 to 13)
A continuously updated account of watching the 13 new installments of Netflix's political drama
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Netflix Is House of Cards TV?
Its creator doesn't think so. A conversation with Beau Willimon about streaming, the creative process, and the meaninglessness of the word "television"
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True Detective: The Best Show on TV
Could HBO's latest hit be helping pave the way for a new form of storytelling?
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HBO Maybe, Finally, Girls Is Starting to Grow Up
Our roundtable discusses "Free Snacks," the sixth episode of the HBO show's third season.
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How Great Would It Be for Leno to Go on Letterman One Last Time?
A meeting between the two rivals would make a fitting farewell to a comedy era—and might remind people that there's more to Leno than his successful-but-stale Tonight routine.
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How The Simpsons Took on Hollywood and Got Its Audience Back
An executive producer talks about the show's sendup of the film industry's illegal-downloading obsession, which earned rave reviews and big viewership.
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HBO The Girls Gut Check: 'No Drive, No Goals, Somehow Tons of Opinions'
Four Atlantic staffers sound off on the fifth episode of the third season of Lena Dunham's HBO show.
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FX The Supreme Disappointment of American Horror Story: Coven
The finale, "The Seven Wonders," offered an entertaining reminder of how much better this witch-themed season could have been.
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HBO The Girls Gut Check: 'Just Because It's Fake Doesn't Mean I Don't Feel It'
Four Atlantic staffers sound off on the fourth episode of the third season of Lena Dunham's HBO show.
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NBC SNL's Jonah Hill Episode: 5 Best Scenes
Cameos by Leonardo DiCaprio and Michael Cera; a new Spike Jonze movie; Bieber's arresting officer speaks out; and more...
