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Displaying all articles tagged:
Reality Check
reality check
Dec. 3, 2021
Maybe
Wheel of Time
Doesn’t Need to Look So Realistic
The series’s elaborate, expensive fantasy world is gorgeous to behold and boring to spend extended time in.
By
Kathryn VanArendonk
reality check
Apr. 11, 2017
Hannah on
Girls
Could Not Have Gotten That Job
The show has always had a fraught relationship with realism.
By
Kathryn VanArendonk
reality check
Jan. 26, 2017
The
Riverdale
Pilot’s Least Believable Lines
Archie and friends have been watching a lot of
Mad Men
.
By
Jackson McHenry
reality check
Jan. 23, 2017
Sean Spicer’s Inauguration Ratings Claims, Fact-checked
Since you asked, Mr. Spicer, there’s plenty of data that suggests the administration’s claim is false.
By
Josef Adalian
reality check
Oct. 19, 2015
Let’s Stop Pretending
Project Greenlight
Is About Making a Good Movie
It’s a good TV show. Isn’t that enough?
By
Margaret Lyons
reality check
Mar. 12, 2014
Lionsgate TV to Create Mars Colony Reality Show [Updated]
With private space travel organization Mars One.
By
Halle Kiefer
reality check
Dec. 30, 2013
Real Wolf of Wall Street Shopping a Reality Show
Jordan Belfort takes things to their logical conclusion.
By
Halle Kiefer
reality check
Jan. 11, 2013
The Carrie Diaries
Gets Carrie Bradshaw’s Backstory Wrong
She was raised by her mom — not her dad!
By
Patti Greco
reality check
Nov. 28, 2012
Before You Mock the Idea of Jeff Zucker Running CNN …
Remember that before driving NBC’s prime time into the ground, he was a news wunderkind.
By
Josef Adalian
reality check
Oct. 30, 2012
Hurricane Sandy Was the Attack on NYC that Blockbusters Never Prepared Us For
After years of being accustomed by Hollywood to the idea of loud, explosive Death From Above, this disaster seeped in from below.
By
Scott Brown
reality check
Mar. 22, 2012
Reality Check: What Is OWN’s
Real
Prognosis?
Vultures circle after layoffs and the Rosie cancellation, but let’s look at the facts.
By
Josef Adalian
reality check
Feb. 17, 2012
How Accurate Is
Luck
About Life at the Track?
We spoke with Broadway producer, and regular bettor, Jerry Zaks.
By
Claude Brodesser-Akner
reality check
Apr. 29, 2010
Reality TV Much Worse for U.K. Politics Than U.S. Politics
Or so says Toby Young, who maybe doesn’t know how our presidential debates work.
By
Willa Paskin