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Cop shows populate the TV sked like roaches run amok. Sure, Hill Street Blues was a potent narrative force once upon a time, but aside from anomalies like The Wire, the primary thing separating most modern police procedurals is their geographic locale. Well, add Toronto to that atlas thanks to Flashpoint, a CTV series that, ...
BY Joshua Ostroff
Haider Hamza, a young man of Middle Eastern origin, his neck swathed in a kaffiyeh, sets up a booth reminiscent of Lucy’s in the Peanuts comic strip. Except, instead of saying “Psychiatric Help, ...
The love triangle is TV’s fave go-to trope. From General Hospital to Grey’s Anatomy, it’s the laziest way to stretch out sexual tension and delay inevitable couplings. Yet triangles just aren’t edgy...
The new Battlestar Galactica began with an Old Testament apocalypse. Appalled by humanity’s sins, particularly the pagan worship of “false gods,” the monotheistic Cylon robots rained down Armageddon...
Before superheroes like Iron Man and Batman conquered box offices, comic books were a dying medium, victims of their own industry’s arrogance and hubris — ironically, the same failings which time and again have foiled the diabolical schemes of villains like...
MTV long ago abandoned “music” for teen-friendly reality programming, but hits like Laguna Beach and the wildly popular spinoff The Hills rarely show what real young people’s lives are like. The network aims higher with The Paper, a series about an ...
Of all the Republican slurs thrown at Democrats during 2000’s controversial Bush vs Gore election (and the subsequent 36-day recount drama), the one that still rings true was the charge that Dems didn’t have the stomach for battle, that they lacked the ... (1)
Hillary Clinton may prove ultimately unsuccessful, but her glass ceiling–shattering presidential campaign made it crystal clear that a woman’s place is anywhere she wants it to be. Alas, occasionally that place is on reality dating shows, where women are ...
The lifespan of a comedy troupe is limited, generally peaking then disappearing within a few years as the members go their separate ways. Sure, there are comedic institutions like Saturday Night Live that go on (and on), but revolving cast doors make them...
When its strike-lengthened spring break finally finished last week, Upper East Side soap Gossip Girl returned to prep school amidst a media frenzy over its pop-cultural phenom status — parental watchdog groups fumed over the sexy OMFG ad campaign, gossip ...