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• 2/21/08  /
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‘American Idol’: Top Twelve Girls Take a Sick Day

Boring.

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• 2/20/08  /
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‘American Idol’: Twelve Gangly Men

Last night, with this season's freeloading rejects now thankfully returned to obscurity, American Idol weighed the talents of the top twelve male contestants.

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• 2/19/08  /
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‘Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles’: Cameron Might Yet Prove to Be a Bad, Bad Girl

This little TV show is the by far the most compelling part of the Terminator franchise.

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• 2/19/08  /
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‘The L Word’: Turkish Oil Wrestling!

When a flyer heralds the arrival of lesbian Turkish oil wrestling at SheBar within the first moments of last night's show, can there be any doubt which slippery slope we're about to cascade down?

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• 2/19/08  /
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‘The Wire’: Goodnight Moon

"Goodnight stars / Goodnight po-pos / Goodnight fiends."

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• 2/15/08  /
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Lost: Sayid and His Enormous, Sad Biceps

Being one of the Oceanic Six can get you laid in any coffee shop in Europe.

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• 2/14/08  /
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‘American Idol’: Everybody Cries

Plus: Who cried the best?

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• 2/13/08  /
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‘American Idol’: Say Good-bye to Hollywood

Last night, American Idol flew successful contestants from eight previous episodes to Hollywood, California, ostensibly to pick the best singers, though really to weed out the ones who looked bad under real TV lighting.

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• 2/12/08  /
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‘Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles’: The Hottie and the Robottie

Do kids today fantasize about an upbringing that involves military training in the jungles of Central America? Yes!

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• 2/11/08  /
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‘Friday Night Lights’: Season Ends, for Now, Mid–Cycle of Life

The Friday Night Lights writers like to keep the narratives cycles as tight as Tyra’s gym shorts.

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• 2/11/08  /
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‘The L Word’: Hey Kit, Where You Going With That Gun in Your Hand?

This episode introduced a triumvirate of awful ideas!

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• 2/11/08  /
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‘The Wire’: Jimmy McNulty Adds to His Rap Sheet

Omar is the homicidal, trench-coat-wearing, shotgun-wielding, black, gay Spider-Man.

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• 2/8/08  /
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Lost: What’s the Deal With These New Guys?

This episode would have rocked our world even if it didn't feature the comedic stylings of Jeremy Davies, a.k.a. the Twitchiest Actor on Earth.

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• 2/7/08  /
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‘American Idol’: Thus Ends the Fruitless Search for the Next Sanjaya

Last night's episode of American Idol featured leftover contestants from the previous seven audition shows, presumably because Fox executives think they can air whatever they want these days and still top their strike-addled competition in the ratings.

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• 2/6/08  /
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‘American Idol’: No Clear Winners in Atlanta

Last night, American Idol traveled to Atlanta where the show had previously discovered the hidden talents of Clay Aiken, Fantasia Barrino, and Jennifer Hudson.

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• 2/4/08  /
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‘Friday Night Lights’: Ah, the Dark Side

As part of their campaign to prove that Friday Night Lights is not a football show, the writers have gone back to the Tyra-in-tight-shorts well. Which is not something we’re inclined to complain about, per se.

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• 2/4/08  /
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‘The L Word’: The Ladies Meet Their Matches

So who's sober?

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• 2/4/08  /
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‘The Wire’: Omar Is Superman

"How do you get from here to the rest of the world?"

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• 2/1/08  /
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Lost: We’re Pretty Sure We Have It All Figured Out

Awwww, the very first episode of the season, and it centers around Hurley, the survivor with the biggest heart and the biggest (and most improbable) gut!

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• 1/31/08  /
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‘American Idol’: Miami Sound Latrine

No Clay Aikens in Miami either.

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• 1/30/08  /
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‘American Idol’: No Clay Aikens in Omaha, Sadly

Last night the Idol judges auditioned contestants in Omaha, Nebraska. It wasn't very good.

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• 1/28/08  /
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‘Friday Night Lights’: Pigskin Versus Volleyball-Player Skin

What does a teenage Christian couple do on their first date?

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• 1/28/08  /
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‘The L Word’: In Defense of Jenny Schecter

Right about now, we want to make a Chris Crocker–like YouTube video.

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• 1/28/08  /
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‘The Wire’: Burrell Bites the Dust; McNulty Takes a Bite Out of Crime

"He was in the glee club. Stone stupid."

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• 1/24/08  /
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‘The Moment of Truth’: We'd Be Lying If We Said We Enjoyed It

Last night, after a passably entertaining episode of American Idol, came the series premiere of Fox's sleazy new game show The Moment of Truth, on which average, ordinary people are connected to a polygraph machine and exposed as the philandering, tax-dodging, latently racist, elderly-hating, gambling-addicted lovers of Internet pornography that they truly are — all for the chance to win $500,000!

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