- 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.
Tv Review
- 5/17/13 /
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Seitz on The Office Finale: The Fondest Farewell
Did he tear up because of the writing, or out of fondness for the show's run? And does it matter?
- 5/16/13 /
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Seitz on Scandal: More than a Crazy Soap (But Still a Delightfully Crazy Soap)
"I never imagined that I'd one day tell people that it gives me the same kind of crazy rush that I used to get from 24."
- 5/10/13 /
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Seitz: Christopher Guest’s Family Tree Is a Less Mocking Mockumentary
He doesn't seem to be pointing and laughing at his characters like he did in Waiting for Guffman.
- 5/5/13 /
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Seitz on The Office’s Late Recovery
Few things on TV are as heartening as signs of life in a show that seemed creatively dead.
- 4/23/13 /
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Seitz on Sundance’s Rectify: So Old-School It Almost Seems New-School
This new show is about a death-row inmate released back into society after many years away.
- 4/14/13 /
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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.
- 4/12/13 /
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Seitz on Louis C.K.’s Oh My God: Life Is Beautiful, and So Is This Stand-Up Special
Oh My God is the perfect title for a Louis C.K. special. It’s what you say when you watch his stand-up or his FX series.
- 4/12/13 /
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Seitz on Da Vinci’s Demons: The Funniest Unintentional TV Comedy of the Year
It’s like Shakespeare in Love plus The Borgias plus Elizabeth times a head injury.
- 4/7/13 /
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Seitz: The Americans Does Espionage Better Than Homeland
Like The Sopranos, The Americans is not about what it seems to be.
- 4/4/13 /
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Seitz: Though We’ve Seen This Story Before, Hannibal Is the Most Beautiful Series on Network TV
The new NBC drama brings Hannibal Lecter and friends to our TV screens.
- 4/3/13 /
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Seitz: How to Live With Your Parents Is a Charming Study of Arrested Development
The new sitcom starring Sarah Chalke premieres tonight.
- 4/2/13 /
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Seitz on Mad Men Season Six: What Mad Men Owes to Lost
Caution, mild spoilers ahead, obviously.
- 3/30/13 /
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Seitz: Orphan Black Doesn’t Connect
But star Tatiana Maslany stands out anyway.
- 3/29/13 /
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TV Review: Philip Roth: Unmasked Skims The Surface
Tonight on PBS, the latest entry in the long-running American Masters series.
- 3/29/13 /
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Seitz: Game of Thrones Lives Up to Its Awesome Ambition
Unlike Boardwalk Empire, Thrones has fun with its relentlessly propulsive pile of plots.
- 3/28/13 /
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Seitz: Don’t Listen to the Haters — The Neighbors Is a Ludicrous, Radiantly Special Show
This show deserves way more credit than it gets.
- 3/22/13 /
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Seitz on HBO’s Phil Spector: David Mamet And His Exceedingly Strange Movie
Writer-director David Mamet’s movie stars Al Pacino as the titular record producer.
- 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.
- 3/18/13 /
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Seitz on Bates Motel: I Dismember Mama
A&E's new show is an origin story/prequel to Hitchcock's Psycho. And yet it isn't.