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 "The best video essay source on the web." (Roger Ebert) This is a web site built around original video essays and critical, personal writing about movies, TV, music, comics and whatever else interests its contributors. Co-founded by Matt Zoller Seitz, TV critic for New York Magazine, and Ken Cancelosi, it is published by Seitz and Cancelosi and overseen by editor-in-chief Kevin B. Lee and managing editor Max Winter.

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KILLER KARAOKE: Reality Television and the Death of the American Middle Class

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“There’s been class warfare going on for the last twenty years and my class has won.” —Warren Buffett "I'm about to get my ass kicked by crawfish."—Steve-O
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  • By Drew Gardner
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  • March 22, 2013 8:35 AM
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Why FX’s THE AMERICANS May Feature the Most Compelling Romance on TV

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Though it is as flush with moral ambiguity as its predecessors, Joe Weisberg’s creation offers an altogether different breed of protagonist. What separates "The Americans" is its foregrounding of the simplest device in the history of narrative: love. In effect, The Americans is an extended remarriage plot.
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  • By Jesse Damiani
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  • March 14, 2013 9:03 AM
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More: Television, Television, FX, The Americans, Matthew Rhys, Keri Russell, Jesse Damiani

THE NEWSROOM RECAP 5: AMEN

Television
It’s amazing that a man, and the show that celebrates him, can recognize any news when they spot it, given how much time Will and "The Newsroom" spend in a self-regarding set of funhouse mirrors that seem to reflect only the most flattering version of Will back to him.
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  • By Alyssa Rosenberg
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  • July 23, 2012 8:56 AM
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More: TV Reviews, Television, Alyssa Rosenberg, The Newsroom, HBO , Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, Alison Pill, Olivia Munn, indieWIRE Video, Sam Waterston

BREAKING BAD RECAP 2: MADRIGAL

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The most striking aspect of tonight’s episode was our introduction to German mega-company Madrigal Elektromoteren (and, of course, the short-order introduction and elimination of suit Herr Schuler, who was clearly complicit in the late Mr. Fring’s meth empire, though we don’t quite know yet to what degree).
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  • By Dave Bunting, Jr.
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  • July 22, 2012 10:55 PM
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FALLING SKIES RECAP 6: MOLON LABE

Television
Here's where we start to hope. Here's where we begin fervently, passionately hoping that two outstanding back-to-back episodes of "Falling Skies" make a trend, possibly the shape of things to come.
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  • By Deborah Lipp
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  • July 22, 2012 9:55 PM
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POLITICAL ANIMALS: Purple Haze

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When we first see former first lady, former presidential candidate, and soon-to-be secretary of state Elaine Barrish Hammond, played by Sigourney Weaver, in "Political Animals," she is onstage giving a concession speech, dressed in a purple disco jumpsuit. “Postpartisan purple,” observes a friend who is an expert on color.
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  • By Emily Gordon
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  • July 17, 2012 11:47 AM
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More: Emily Gordon, Political Animals, USA Network, Sigourney Weaver, indieWIRE Video, TV Reviews, Television, Carla Gugino

TRUE BLOOD RECAP 6: HOPELESS

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Tonight’s meh "True Blood" was proof double-O positive of the Law of Fives. Seriously, if physicists applied themselves, I trust they’d find the Law of Fives almost as immutable as the Law of Gravity, and not nearly as funny.
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  • By Ian Grey
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  • July 16, 2012 8:29 AM
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More: Ian Grey, True Blood, HBO , TV Reviews, Television, indieWIRE Video, Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Rutina Wesley, Christopher Meloni

THE NEWSROOM RECAP 4: I'LL TRY TO FIX YOU

Television
One of the reasons I wish "The Newsroom" spent more time following its characters as they report stories is that there’s a thesis floating through the show about what happens when people apply the methods they use in journalism to their personal lives.
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  • By Alyssa Rosenberg
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  • July 15, 2012 10:55 PM
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More: TV Reviews, Television, The Newsroom, HBO , Alyssa Rosenberg, Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, Alison Pill, Olivia Munn, indieWIRE Video

BREAKING BAD RECAP 1: LIVE FREE OR DIE

Television
In the months since the explosive Season 4 finale of "Breaking Bad," and Walt's certainly premature declaration of victory, we've had a long time to ponder what exactly he meant by saying, "I won."
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  • By Dave Bunting, Jr.
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  • July 15, 2012 10:55 PM
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More: TV Reviews, Television, Dave Bunting, Jr., Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston, Anna Gunn, Vince Gilligan, indieWIRE Video

FALLING SKIES RECAP 5: HOMECOMING

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If you're not watching this show yet, now's the time to start.
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  • By Deborah Lipp
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  • July 15, 2012 9:55 PM
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