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THE SKED Fall Finale Review: “The Originals”

THE ORIGINALS and its creator/showrunner Julie Plec have been fearless about plunging viewers of the New Orleans-set supernatural soap into a veritable bayou of mythology. We’re half a season in, and already swam...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED MIDSEASON FINALE REVIEW: “The Vampire Diaries”

Among other things, the midseason finale of THE VAMPIRE DIARIES gets credit for the season’s most subversive use of Christmas carols, playing cheerily under ancient vampire Klaus (Joseph Morgan) as he first slaught...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED MIDSEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Grey’s Anatomy”

In its ninth season, GREY’S ANATOMY remains a model of smoothly operating network soap. This week’s midseason finale, written by Consulting Producer Debora Cahn and directed by Rob Corn, had the bonus of be...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED MIDSEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Beauty & the Beast”

The midseason finale of the purported romantic thriller BEAUTY & THE BEAST delivered almost all romance, no thrills, as it continues to have only a glancing relationship with its title. Plotting has been this show...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED MIDSEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Scandal”

SCANDAL has been having a barn-burner of a Season 2, emerging as a pulpier, crazier Homeland (not that Homeland hasn’t been pretty crazy the last couple of weeks), a DC-set melodrama where everybody is lying to som...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED MIDSEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Arrow”

ARROW, CW’s successful new superhero action series, has found its own best secret identity as a quasi-soap, a fact imperfectly illustrated by tonight’s midseason finale. The tactic of conveying a comic book s...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED FALL FINALE REVIEW: “Once Upon A Time”

Having blown up the initial premise of their show in its Season 1 finale, ONCE UPON A TIME creators Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz have inventively plotted a Season 2 that came to a satisfying Act 1 culmination in the s...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED FALL FINALE REVIEW: “Revenge”

REVENGE, in its second season, demonstrates the perils of stretching a good thing too far. (Also being stretched: ABC’s concept of a “fall finale,” since unlike shows like Revolution and The Walking...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED FALL FINALE REVIEW: “The Walking Dead”

It’s odd to think that the biggest hit on American television is centered around the flesh-eating undead, but enough about Fox News… THE WALKING DEAD is a genuine television phenomenon, in more ways than on...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED Fall Finale Review: “The Originals”

THE SKED MIDSEASON FINALE REVIEW: “The Vampire Diaries”

THE SKED MIDSEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Grey’s Anatomy”

THE SKED MIDSEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Beauty & the Beast”

THE SKED MIDSEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Scandal”

THE SKED MIDSEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Arrow”

THE SKED FALL FINALE REVIEW: “Once Upon A Time”

THE SKED FALL FINALE REVIEW: “Revenge”

THE SKED FALL FINALE REVIEW: “The Walking Dead”

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