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Television Series Season Finales: "Step Up and Dance"
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Zaz
Title: Manager:
The Amphitheatre
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Oct '98
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Date Posted:
10/17/07 1:04pm
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RE: Television Series Season Finales: "Mad Men"
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10-11PM AMC, TV-14-LS Season Finale
MUST WATCH OF THE WEEK
"Mad Men" A
"Last week's revelation that Don Draper (Jon Hamm) stole his identity from a dead war buddy was — like so much about Mad Men — just the right kind of shocking. Tonight, yet another of his secrets gets out, sending poor wife Betty (January Jones) into her umpteenth emotional tailspin. Since its fizzy premiere, this discomfiting period drama has grown more engrossing as it tackles gender roles, marital non-bliss, homophobia, anti-Semitism, and a host of other messy social ills. It takes talent to pull that off in an inaugural season, and that's what makes Mad Men such an easy show to love. It gets everything right. — Nicholas Fonseca"
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Zaz
Title: Manager:
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Date Posted:
10/23/07 12:40pm
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RE: Television Series Season Finales: "Mad Men"
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10-11PM FX, TV-TK MUST WATCH OF THE WEEK
SEASON FINALE
"Damages"
"Why was Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne) framed for murder? How will the legal maneuvering between virtuous(?) litigator Patty Hewes (Glenn Close) and corrupt(?) CEO Arthur Frobisher (Ted Danson) be resolved? And most importantly, are you still with me — or the show, for that matter? Judging by the ratings, only a few of you stuck around. That's too bad. At its worst, Damages was a maddeningly over-ambitious thriller, but the cast — Danson, Close, and Željko Ivanek (a nuanced character actor with an indelible face) — served up some of the best acting on TV all year. Here's hoping that Emmy voters won't shun the series too." —Henry Goldblatt
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Alpha-Red
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Date Posted:
10/24/07 4:37pm
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RE: Television Series Season Finales: "Damages"
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Mmm, I liked the finale. They really lead you in the wrong direction in the previous episode before throwing yet another curveball at you.
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Zaz
Title: Manager:
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Date Posted:
11/10/07 6:36pm
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RE: Television Series Season Finales: "Damages"
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9-10PM
HBO, TV-MA
SEASON FINALE
"Tell Me You Love Me"
"The show begging you to love it ends its first season with reconnections and revelations, devastation and disaster, crossroads and cliff-hangers. Just like every other season finale on television. May faces a personal loss, something's going on between Jamie and Hugo, Kate and Dave are making amends….Tell me you don’t care and I’ll stop."
I. Don't. Care.
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Zaz
Title: Manager:
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Date Posted:
11/21/07 12:40pm
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RE: Television Series Season Finales: "Tell Me You Love Me"
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9-10PM BBC America, TV-14
Season Finale
"Hotel Babylon"
"So what if there's a staff shake-up? If you were truly sick of playing Who's Getting the Ax? you'd stop watching House."
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Zaz
Title: Manager:
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Date Posted:
11/27/07 12:29pm
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RE: Television Series Season Finales: "Hotel Babylon"
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9-11PM ABC, TV-PG
Season Finale
"Dancing With the Stars"
"Dancing With the Stars takes its final bow tonight in a two hour spectacular. (We thought we'd remind you in case you're the only person on the planet who doesn't follow this show religiously.)"
Yowsa!
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Zaz
Title: Manager:
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Date Posted:
12/12/07 12:06pm
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RE: Television Series Season Finales: "Dancing With the Stars"
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8-9PM The CW Season Finale
"America's Next Top Model"
"We're down to three girls. Homesick Jenah, unmemorable Chantal, and brownnoser Saleisha. Who will be named...America's...Next...Top...Model? It's a tie between Lisa and Heather. (In our hearts.)"
8-9PM CBS
Season Finale
"Kid Nation"
"Low crime, free housing, equitable income distribution — hell, if they had cable, I'd move."
9-10PM Fox, TV-14-L
Season Finale
"Kitchen Nightmares"
"Who's gonna yell at us now? Besides Dr. Phil, I mean."
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Zaz
Title: Manager:
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Oct '98
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Date Posted:
12/16/07 11:25am
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RE: Television Series Season Finales: "Kid Nation"; "Kitchen Nightmares" & "America's Next Top Mode
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SEASON FINALE
"Survivor: China"
"A fake hidden immunity idol is played. Two real hidden immunity idols are not. A mulleted lunch lady from Massachusetts does kung fu in the Shaolin Temple. Those are just a few of the more bizarre scenes from this season of Survivor: China. But the real million-dollar moment occurs this Sunday when the show's 15th winner is crowned. Our money (which has considerably fewer zeros behind it) is on either Todd, the gay Mormon flight attendant whose strategy constantly changes based on his panic level du jour, or Amanda, who's also in the running to become Survivor's most pixilated contestant ever. Best of luck to her on both counts. —Dalton Ross"
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Zaz
Title: Manager:
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Oct '98
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Date Posted:
2/8 12:47pm
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RE: Television Series Season Finales: "Survivor: China"
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9-10PMNBC, TV-PG-DL
Season Finale
"Friday Night Lights"
"Riggins is getting his own Christian radio show? Is FNL going to destroy him by saving him?"
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GRANDADMIRALAXLROSE
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May '02
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Date Posted:
2/23 11:30pm
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RE: Television Series Season Finales: "Friday Night Lights"
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the real question is whether or not this is the series finale
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Next great movie: Writer-director Kevin Smith's "Zack & Miri Make a Porno"
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solojones
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Date Posted:
2/23 11:35pm
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RE: Television Series Season Finales: "Lost", "ER", "Supernatural", "The Office" "My Name is Earl"
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5/15 12:29pm (1 edits total)
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According to recent reports from Variety and other sources, NBC really wants to keep the show around for a third season, so they're trying to partner with another network to do something similar to what they did for Criminal Intent this season. Personally I think that's brilliant. The audience it has will follow it to any channel, and its numbers would look more respectable on cable. I'm really glad they're trying to be smart about how to keep it alive.
As to this episode... it was a good one, but considering no one involved knew it would be the last episode of the season, I think you can hardly judge it as such. It sure left off in a bad place as far as cliffhangers go, with Street possibly becoming a father. The early-middle part of this season was mediocre, but it had just picked up really well in the last few episodes. It's a shame that momentum has to slow...
I am starting to have confidence it'll be back in the fall, though.
-sj loves kevin spacey
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Zaz
Title: Manager:
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Date Posted:
3/3 1:09pm
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RE: Television Series Season Finales: "Friday Night Lights"
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8-10PM Fox, TV-14-LV
Season Finale
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
"John has to pick: the uncle he just met, or his model-hot robot über-babe. Ooohhh, it's a toughie!"
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Darth Dark Helmet
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3/3 3:48pm
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RE: Television Series Season Finales: "The Sarah Connor Chronicles"
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Wow, season finale already.
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And then, you know, do the opposite.
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DVader316
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Date Posted:
3/3 7:28pm
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RE: Television Series Season Finales: "The Sarah Connor Chronicles"
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Well, technically it wasnt supposed to be. They were only able to film 9 eps. due to the writers strike and for whatever reason Fox decided not to go back and film the remaining four shows.
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Zaz
Title: Manager:
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Oct '98
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Date Posted:
3/8 8:35am
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RE: Television Series Season Finales: "The Sarah Connor Chronicles"
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9-10:35PM HBO, TV-MA MUST WATCH OF THE WEEK
Series Finale
Preview
The Wire
''You start to tell the story, you think you're the hero,'' Det. Jimmy McNulty (Dominic West) said in a recent episode, struggling to explain his squishy moral center. ''And then when you get done talking...'' The scene ended mid-apology, so we'll never know the rest of that sentence. And as perhaps the greatest serial ever to smarten up the idiot box concludes its run tonight, we may never learn the answer to his question: Once you realize you're not even the hero of your own story, where the hell does that leave you? At least The Wire leaves us with five seasons of uncompromising quality, telling stories about terribly compromised people. We'd feel better if exquisite antihero Omar (Michael Kenneth Williams) had lived to shoot another day, and even better if Emmy voters finally (finally) gave the show its due. It is, after all, their last chance — The Wire is done talking."
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