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I remember when I first watched Dexter. It was in the summer of 2008, and I was pregnant with my now 4 year old daughter, Rhiannon. My husband and I decided to check it out on the strength of multiple recommendations from friends. I was fascinated by the premise, about a serial killer who, of course, to make it more palatable for television, only kills bad guys. He had a code, forced upon him

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So, I'm sitting here reading my blog posts over again, and it occurs to me: why would anyone read what I have to say? What do I have to bring to the table? I love television. I love dramatic, funny, well thought out, well acted television. Everybody else who writes about TV will tell you the exact same thing. They love watching it, they love reading about it, they love writing about it. But I

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I love Dollhouse. I love what it has to say about identity, about technology, and about the male gaze and how that can be perverted and twisted and made into something awful (see Nolan and his treatment of Priya) or something beautiful (Patton Oswalt's Joel Minor, and his annual engagement, his need to see his dead wife and have her be a party to his success). But there's no denying that it got

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Well. I didn't forget about the blog, I promise. The truth is, I had another kid, I got overwhelmed with life stuff, and  I just couldn't find the time that I wanted to devote to this blog, which is a true passion project of mine. But if you're passionate about something, you MAKE time for it, right? So no more excuses. I still make the time to watch TV, obsessively so, so I can make the

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Watching The Wire is a bit like watching the writers assemble a giant jigsaw puzzle. They have all the pieces  and we're looking on as they fill in all of the blanks, starting with square one. I hesitate to say that every season is like this, as some of them come "pre-assembled", if you will. You have the center of the puzzle, which is usually the detail or some faction thereof, and as the

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About 4 months ago, I gave up on watching Glee. My reasons for this are many and varied, but the chief reason was this: Why was I wasting my time trying to connect with and care about these characters, when it was clear that the three men writing it (Ryan Murphy, Ian Brennan, and Brad Falchuk) didn't seem to care about them? Characters change motivation from episode to episode, sometimes

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(Video is NSFW! Contains profanity and adult subjects.) "So if Snot always stole the money, why did you let him play?" "Got to. This America, man." Every season of The Wire opens with a scene like this. A scene that tells you (in mostly oblique overtones) what you're about to see. The opening scene of The Wire sets the tone and also provides David Simon's mission statement

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Full disclosure up front: I am not a fan of season 1 of this show. Like almost all of Joss Whedon's shows,Firefly being the strong, strong exception, the show takes time to find its footing. I really believe that he and fellow creator David Greenwalt just really, really wanted David Boreanaz and the character of Angel to have a spinoff. They didn't quite know where to go from there.&

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