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  Miner Drama
  By STEPHANIE ZACHAREK
  Thu Nov 12, 2015

  How do you dramatize the unthinkable? On Aug. 5, 2010, 33 Chilean miners were trapped when the 100-year-old gold and copper mine in which they... More >>

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  Should The Simpsons Have Been Killed? Meet the Experts of the Worst Episode Ever Podcast
  By ALAN SCHERSTUHL
  Thu Nov 12, 2015

  Here's a sentence you didn't expect to read today: There's a recent Simpsons that's entirely worth your time. Seriously. "Halloween of Horror,"... More >>

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  First Jane, Now Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: The CW Gets What Young Women Want
  By Lara Zarum
  Thu Nov 12, 2015

  We've gotten used to the idea that the highest-quality, most innovative television lives on premium cable channels such as HBO and Showtime. But... More >>

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  Why I'm Still Watching The Muppets
  By INKOO KANG
  Thu Nov 5, 2015

  The Muppets doesn't work, exactly, but I'm still watching.          As a relative outsider to the 60-year Muppets... More >>

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  Aziz Ansari's Master of None Is a Small Step for TV, a Giant Leap for Asian-American Progress
  By INKOO KANG
  Thu Nov 5, 2015

  In its very first scene, Aziz Ansari's new Netflix series, Master of None, presents something never before seen on TV: an Asian-American male... More >>

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  The Worst Man on TV: Does The Affair Want Us to Detest Noah?
  By Lara Zarum
  Thu Oct 22, 2015

             In his 2014 book Difficult Men, journalist Brett Martin identifies bad-boy antiheroes as the defining... More >>

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  The Spielberg Detente: Has the Inventor of the Blockbuster Outgrown Violence?
  By ALAN SCHERSTUHL
  Thu Oct 22, 2015

  Sure, you can blame the aliens, the gophers, the monkeys and the fridge. But even without all those, 2008's Indiana Jones and the Harrumphing of... More >>

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  Please Like Me Is the Gay Comedy About Millennials and Mental Illness You Didn’t Know You Needed
  By INKOO KANG
  Thu Oct 15, 2015

                    Twenty-year-old Josh's (Josh Thomas) world explodes twice in the Please Like Me... More >>

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  OC Film Fiesta Returns
  By AIMEE MURILLO
  Thu Oct 8, 2015

  This year's annual OC Film Fiesta (OCFF) looks to be the best yet. It has punched up its amount of lost and overlooked classic and independent... More >>

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  'Survivor Shows How Republican Fearmongering Works': A Superfan Explains
  By INKOO KANG
  Thu Oct 8, 2015

  In the Golden Age of scripted television, reality TV is supposed to be dying, but you wouldn't know it from Survivor's tenacious... More >>

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  Michael Shannon Passes Go
  By AMY NICHOLSON
  Thu Sep 24, 2015

  Michael Shannon isn't a stickler for rules. In his career, he has ignored most of them, especially the mandate that a theater-trained,... More >>

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  Charlie Kaufman Has Directed His Second Masterpiece
  By AMY NICHOLSON
  Thu Sep 17, 2015

  Charlie Kaufman is a cartographer of the soul. You can picture him hunched over parchment, accurately inking each dark river and, off to the... More >>

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  Mike O'Malley's Brilliant Family Sitcom Survivor's Remorse Asks New Questions About the American Dream
  By INKOO KANG
  Thu Sep 10, 2015

  The American Dream killed Jay Gatsby and Willy Loman, but their TV counterparts have mostly fared better. Sure, Walter White ends up in a... More >>

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  An Older, Wiser Michael Moore Invades Europe
  By AMY NICHOLSON
  Thu Sep 10, 2015

  “I've turned into this kind of crazy optimist,” Michael Moore admits in his new documentary, Where to Invade Next, his first film in... More >>