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Final seasons a unique challenge for TV shows


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Last week Sons of Anarchy and Boardwalk Empire premiered the first episodes of their final seasons. Because television is an extremely competitive business, shows rarely get to finish their stories on their own terms like this. Ratings dip or fail to get off the ground in the first place, actors decide they want to leave […]

TV struggles with political agendas


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With the election finally over, political discussion will return over the coming weeks to its usual, more manageable fervor. Though a welcome respite to most, that certainly isn’t to say that it’s time to tune out of current events completely; for anyone who consumes television, doing so would be more or less impossible. Politics and […]

64th Primetime Emmy Awards Predictions


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Though the Oscars have always been the most buzzed-about event of awards season — and likely will be for the foreseeable future — they might no longer be the most important. Long thought to be out of touch and subject to the whims of Academy politics, the ceremony’s self-righteous sanctimony and lack of any real […]

St. Vincent stays strong with Strange Mercy


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Annie Erin Clark has been busy lately. The 28-year-old has been getting her hands dirty in alternative music since graduating Berklee College of Music in 2003. After developing her stage moniker, St. Vincent, and blasting to new heights with her twisted pop records, she has been enjoying the fruits of touring (opening for Arcade Fire […]

Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio cry wolf


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Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio will reunite once again and their next film together has officially been announced. The frequent collaborators will join forces with Terrence Winter,  writer of The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire, on The Wolf of Wall Street, which will focus on a Long Island stockbroker who spent time in prison for a […]