- 5/15/13 /
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The 13 Rules for Creating a Prestige TV Drama
Step 1: Start with an anti-hero.
The Sopranos
- 5/12/13 /
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Seitz: How to Direct a TV Drama
My auteurist theory of television.
- 12/20/12 /
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David Chase on Not Fade Away, Avoiding Thrillers, and His TV Diet
He watches only two shows.
- 12/7/12 /
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What TV Showrunners’ Cameos Say About Their Shows
Dan Harmon on Community, Matt Groening in Futurama, Carl Reiner on The Dick Van Dyke Show, and more.
- 11/14/12 /
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Seitz Asks: HBO Is Forty. What Are Its Greatest Shows, Movies, and Specials?
Upon its 40th anniversary, our TV critic looks back at the cable network's greatest achievements.
- 10/5/12 /
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David Chase’s Not Fade Away: Pencil Sharpeners, Rock and Roll, and James Gandolfini
David Chase, James Gandolfini, and New Jersey: together again!
- 9/9/12 /
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Seitz: How the Best Shows Are Turning Viewers Into Shrinks
2011 was the season of TV on the couch.
- 6/27/12 /
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Seitz Asks: What Are the Best Seasons and Episodes of The Sopranos?
The show has been on our TV critic's mind recently for a couple of reasons, one of which being that it ended its run five years ago this month.
- 5/9/12 /
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Watch Jamie-Lynn Sigler in a Trailer for ‘Forever Wrong,’ a Web Series About a Troubled, Immortal Goblin
For Jamie-Lynn, it's Halloween all year!
- 5/1/12 /
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April’s Best Entertainment Photography
Michelle Williams, Jennifer Lawrence, John Slattery, Lionel Richie (he's back!), and more.
- 3/26/12 /
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The Greatest TV Drama of the Past 25 Years, the Finals: The Wire vs. The Sopranos
New York Magazine TV critic Matt Zoller Seitz makes the final call.
- 3/23/12 /
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Finalists Revealed for the Greatest TV Drama Readers Poll: Vote for Breaking Bad vs. Buffy
The winners of the main Drama Derby — The Wire versus The Sopranos — will be announced on Monday.
- 3/21/12 /
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The Greatest TV Drama of the Past 25 Years, Semifinals: Breaking Bad vs. The Sopranos
eHarmony would totally set these shows up on a date.
- 3/15/12 /
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The Greatest TV Drama of the Past 25 Years, Round Two: The Sopranos vs. The Shield
Two tonally different series, united in excellence.
- 3/7/12 /
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David Chase Finally Resolves How The Sopranos Should Have Ended
With a bonus solution for how Seinfeld should have ended, too.
- 3/5/12 /
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The Greatest TV Drama of the Past 25 Years, Round One: The Sopranos vs. Six Feet Under
Tony vs. the Fishers.
- 3/5/12 /
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What’s the Best TV Drama of the Last 25 Years?
From Buffy to the Sopranos, sixteen dramas will vie for the title.
- 2/20/12 /
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Did Great TV Ruin Good TV?
Are too many shows trying, and failing, to be The Sopranos?
- 1/10/12 /
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What Is the Great Mistake Lurking in ‘Don’t Stop Believin’’?
Steve Perry finally addresses the fact that there actually is no such place as "South Detroit."
- 12/16/11 /
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See Diddy Channel Frank Sinatra
If Diddy shares his Ciroc with anyone, it's Aaron Paul. Or Phil Leotardo.