- 5/19/13 /
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Seitz: Look Past the Dragons in Game of Thrones
If its third season can’t help the fantasy genre lose its stigma, then nothing can.
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- 5/13/13 /
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Seitz: How to Direct a TV Drama
My auteurist theory of television.
- 4/15/13 /
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Seitz: Prequels Hannibal and Bates Motel Don’t Sweat Their Source Material Much
In fact, they diverge rather drastically from what we already knew about their worlds.
- 3/26/13 /
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A Plea for More Male Nudity on Game of Thrones
The show’s “gaze” is undeniably heterosexual and male. That should change.
- 3/21/13 /
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Seitz on Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake: A Police Procedural, Masterfully Made
It's already March, and TV critic Matt Zoller Seitz already expects this miniseries to make his year-end "Top 10" list.
- 3/12/13 /
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Seitz: A Requiem for Dallas’s J.R. Ewing
Farewell to a great soap-opera villain.
- 2/21/13 /
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Seitz on Community Season Four: You’re Just Some Sitcom That I Used to Know
I’m trying to give the post–Dan Harmon Community a chance. Really I am.
- 2/13/13 /
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Seitz on Southland: A Mercifully Understated Look at the Unmerciful World of L.A. Cops
This cop drama prizes journalistic detail over verbal exposition and moldy cop-show tropes.
- 2/12/13 /
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Seitz: Sex and Attractiveness Are the Least Interesting Things About This Week’s Girls
Seriously. Expand your minds, people.
- 2/8/13 /
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Weekend Watching: Matt Zoller Seitz on the Entire Season of House of Cards
We promised a full review of House of Cards after last Friday’s preview, and here it is.
- 1/31/13 /
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Seitz on Do No Harm: This Dual-Personality Tale Could Use More Jekyll, Less Hyde
This new NBC show manages to be nutty and sleazy, but it's still not special enough to stand out.
- 1/23/13 /
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Seitz on the End of American Horror Story’s Second Season: From Campy to Compassionate
It’s tempting to treat this show as one long, trashy, sick joke. But it's so much more.
- 1/21/13 /
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Seitz on The Following: Apocalypse Story As Long-Form Nightmare
Is the serial-killer genre played out?
- 1/19/13 /
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Seitz on Lance and Oprah: The Sadomasochistic Ritual of the Celebrity Apology
Just a couple of pop culture juggernauts protecting their brands.
- 1/17/13 /
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Seitz on Legit: One More Trip to the Poison Testosterone Well, With Feeling
This new show is peculiar enough to stick with while its creators figure out what they're doing.
- 1/14/13 /
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Seitz on The Carrie Diaries: Everything About This Sex and the City Prequel Feels Wrong
The CW's new show is an inept spinoff that dishonors its source.
- 1/8/13 /
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Seitz on Justified’s Fourth Season: Suspenseful, Eloquent, Joyous
For all the suspense and violence, Justified is a laid-back series in the spirit of its inspiration, Elmore Leonard.
- 1/7/13 /
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Seitz: Deception Has More Going on Than It Knows What to Do With
The most frustrating thing about this show is that it’s more fun to pick apart than it is to watch.
- 12/31/12 /
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Seitz: On Louie, ‘New Year’s Eve,’ and Respecting the Mystery
Our TV critic has thought about this episode every day since he first watched it in September.
- 12/24/12 /
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Seitz: Season Three of Downton Abbey Teaches an Unlikely Lesson in Austerity
It's far more than a nighttime soap for Anglophiles.
- 12/3/12 /
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Vulture’s TV, Movie, and Theater Critics Choose Their Best Performances of 2012
One of them is a terrorist.
- 12/3/12 /
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Matt Zoller Seitz's Top 10 TV Shows for 2012
The best in ambitious drama (Mad Men, Homeland) and fantastical comedy (Louie, Community).
- 12/3/12 /
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Critics' Roundtable: What Was the Cultural Event of 2012?
And four other equally pertinent questions.
- 11/29/12 /
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Seitz Takes the David Simon Challenge and Reviews Treme Season Three As a Whole
TV critic Matt Zoller Seitz reviews the whole, rather than the parts. What say you, David Simon?
- 11/28/12 /
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Seitz on Season Two of BBC’s The Hour: A Classy British Potboiler With Oh-So-Attractive People
The second season of the excellent drama gives you more of the same, but different.