- 2/5/13 /
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Seitz: Smash Listened to the Hate-Watchers
It now seems to be as much a show about Smash as a show about Bombshell.
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- 2/1/13 /
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Seitz: Is House of Cards Worth a Binge Watch?
Our critic samples two episodes, and reveals whether he thinks it's worth proceeding through all thirteen.
- 2/1/13 /
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Seitz: The 30 Rock Finale Dared Us Not to Cry, and Knew We’d Fail
Rank this send-off up there with Cheers and The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
- 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.
- 1/7/13 /
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Seitz: Enlightened’s Heroine Is Still Deranged, But Not Totally Wrong
The HBO comedy's second season is brilliantly nuanced.
- 1/4/13 /
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Seitz: Portlandia Recycles
The sketch show is starting to display worrisome signs of fatigue.
- 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.
- 12/17/12 /
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Seitz on 1600 Penn: So You’re Telling Me This Is a ‘Comedy’?
Ladies and gentlemen, I didn’t laugh once.
- 12/13/12 /
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Matt Zoller Seitz’s Favorite Drama Episodes of 2012
Now it's time to get serious.
- 12/5/12 /
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Seitz on Sons of Anarchy’s Season Five: Way to Commit
FX cemented its reputation as the “Holy crap, was that really necessary?” network last night during SOA's fifth season finale.
- 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.
- 11/23/12 /
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Seitz on Liz & Dick: A Retro-Bad TV Biopic
Ladies and gentlemen, behold the worst reviewed program of 2012.
- 11/20/12 /
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Seitz: Inventing David Geffen Cheapens the American Masters Series
This program is so reverential that it could be played at Geffen’s memorial.
- 11/16/12 /
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Seitz on Ken Burns’s The Dust Bowl: Compact and Emotionally Powerful
Ken Burns's astounding documentary is about disaster and survival, yes. But mostly it’s about clouds and faces.
- 11/13/12 /
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Seitz on Mankind: History Channel History Is Guy Movie History
Looking for glitzy reenactments, special effects, and info-graphics? Also, history? You've come to the right place.
- 11/12/12 /
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Seitz on Oliver Stone’s The Untold History of the United States: Telling Tales Out of School
Oliver Stone makes like a disreputable prof in this juicy doc series.
- 11/5/12 /
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Seitz on Witness: HBO’s Documentary Series Is Harrowing, Ambitious, and Scattershot
HBO’s four-part series is about combat photographers.