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Ricky the Rabble-Rouser: The 2011 Golden Globe Awards
Normally, watching the Golden Globes is a fairly solitary experience for me. Sure, my parents or a few floormates would often be in the room as I liveblogged, livetweeted, or took notes during previous...
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All Alone in the Moonlight: The Muddled Memory-Making of the 2011 Grammy Awards
The Muddled Memory-Making of the 2011 Grammys February 13th, 2011 Tonight, the Grammy Awards opened with an extended retrospective. As a collection of contemporary female vocalists paid tribute to the...
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A Final Forecast: Five Stories to Watch in the 2011 Emmy Nominations
5 Stories to Watch in the 2011 Emmy Nominations July 12th, 2011 After numerous failed attempts at writing about why I was struggling to write about the Emmy Awards, which will go down as a meta fail...
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Hope Springs Intermittently: Stories of the 2011 Emmy Nominations
Stories of the 2011 Emmy Nominations July 14th, 2011 My favorite thing about Emmy nomination morning is the sense of hope. It lingers in the air before the 5:35am PT announcement – last night, as both...
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Cultural Check-In: Thoughts on the Fall Survivors
Thoughts on the Fall Survivors October 22nd, 2011 First off, despite the image above, Survivor was actually an early casualty of this fall season. This fall has been tremendously busy in terms of my...
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2011: The Year That Wasn’t – A Cultural Rewind
“Introduction” Looking back on 2011, I think it will be clearly marked as the year in which I no longer came to associate with the term “blogger.” Now, to be clear, I do not mean to suggest that I have...
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2011: The Year That Wasn’t – Shameless and Strike Back
Showtime’s Shameless Aired: January to March With Shameless starting its second season next weekend, and with my parents recently gaining access to an expansive OnDemand archive featuring the series,...
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2011: The Year That Wasn’t – Louie
FX’s Louie Aired: June to September When, as a critic, you stop writing about a number of shows, there is always the risk that your opinion will begin to lean towards the critical consensus,...
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2011: The Year That Wasn’t – Community & Parks and Recreation
NBC’s Community and Parks and Recreation Aired: January to December I’m incredibly fortunate to be able to write about television for a wider audience at The A.V. Club, no moreso than with my weekly...
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2011: The Year That Wasn’t – Kurt Sutter vs. Critics, Round Infinity
Trench Warfare: Kurt Sutter vs. Critics, Round Infinity January 4th, 2012 As a vocal critic of the third season of FX’s Sons of Anarchy, I was apprehensive going into its fourth season, and found...
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