- 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.
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- 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.
- 11/2/12 /
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Seitz: Malibu Country Has a Great One-Two Punch in Reba McEntire and Lily Tomlin
This new ABC sitcom is much in the same vein as McEntire's last sitcom, Reba.
- 10/28/12 /
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Seitz: Ryan Murphy's Glee and American Horror Story Are Good Again
At least, for now.
- 10/19/12 /
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Seitz: Imagine If a Woman Had Directed the Evil-Hitchcock Biopic The Girl
In this movie about the making of The Birds, the Master of Suspense is a bad, bad man.
- 10/17/12 /
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Seitz: Season Two of American Horror Story Is Cheeky, Trashy, and Committed
Can American Horror Story: Asylum recapture the surprise we felt while watching season one?
- 10/16/12 /
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Seitz: Stop Whining, Emily Owens M.D.!
Is high school really the best metaphor for understanding the world?
- 10/14/12 /
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Seitz: The Walking Dead Kicks Off Season Three By Coming Back To Life
The show leaves the farm and embraces its B-movies roots.
- 10/11/12 /
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Seitz on Beauty and the Beast: This Potent Tale Is More Than Just Pretty CW Fluff
We're rooting for this one to get better, because it's thematically rich.
- 10/10/12 /
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Seitz on Arrow: Archery and Acrobatics, CW-Style
Arrow is sincere and energetic but visually undistinguished.
- 10/10/12 /
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Seitz on Nashville: This Country-Music Dallas Is One of the Fall’s Best New Shows
It’s a pleasure to watch a show that knows what it wants to be and has the chops to pull it off.