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THE SKED Review: “The Normal Heart”

THE NORMAL HEART: Sunday 9PM on HBO – DVR Alert When Larry Kramer’s just-barely-semi-autobiographical THE NORMAL HEART was first written and performed in 1985, it was as “ripped from the headlinesR...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Scream Queens”

SCREAM QUEENS: Tuesday 9PM on FOX There didn’t seem to be a pressing need for a second season of SCREAM QUEENS. The ratings for Season 1 were meager, even in the young female demo the show was courting, and the...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “American Horror Story: Coven”

This year’s COVEN season of AMERICAN HORROR STORY was as cohesive as the proudly bizarre series is ever likely to get. That entailed a slight shortage of the WTF variety moments that have made the two previous ...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Finale Review: “Glee”

GLEE went out with dignity–and given that this was Glee, that was far from a sure thing. Over its 6 years (at least 2 more than wisdom would have allowed), Glee made so many disastrous turns into overblown silli...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “American Horror Story – Coven”

AMERICAN HORROR STORY – COVEN: Wednesday 10PM on FX Caged and tortured slaves, mid-coitus spontaneous brain aneurisms and gang rape aside, the COVEN season of AMERICAN HORROR STORY was relatively restrained in it...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “American Horror Story: Hotel”

AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL: Wednesday 10PM on FX Even by the lavish standards of its franchise, the first installment of AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL is crazily incoherent. It plays mostly as a collection of extend...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace”

If Ryan Murphy’s goal with the second season of AMERICAN CRIME STORY was to demonstrate the breadth of the show’s anthology branding, not just in subject matter but in style and structure–unlike the rel...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “American Horror Story – Asylum”

AMERICAN HORROR STORY – ASYLUM: Wednesday 10PM on FX WHERE WE WERE: Doesn’t matter. It wasn’t clear until late in Season 1, but the gimmick of AMERICAN HORROR STORY is that each season will offer ...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “The New Normal”

A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and the production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may have ha...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Scream Queens”

SCREAM QUEENS: Tuesday 9PM on FOX – Change the Channel SCREAM QUEENS could have been more accurately titled “Ryan Murphy Presents,” in the manner of the old Alfred Hitchcock show, because it’s e...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Finale Review: “The People v. OJ Simpson: American Crime Story”

It’s easy enough to say that the phrase “stranger than fiction” would have had to be invented to describe the murder trial of OJ Simpson if it didn’t already exist, but still, the natural tendency...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “American Horror Story: Cult”

AMERICAN HORROR STORY: CULT – Tuesday 10PM on FX We find ourselves in boom times for killer clowns. They’re the main vehicles for terror in the new installment of FX’s Ryan Murphy anthology AMERICAN...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “American Horror Story: Freak Show”

The braintrust behind AMERICAN HORROR STORY, headed by series creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, seemed to think their work was done when they came up with the FREAK SHOW subtitle for this season. Despite the limit...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Glee”

GLEE: Friday 9PM on FOX Among the many wrongheaded decisions made by FOX over the last several years, one was giving GLEE a two-year renewal–just as the bottom was starting to fall out of its ratings. Last year...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “American Horror Story: Cult”

Calling a season of AMERICAN HORROR STORY “grounded” is like calling a batch of moonshine smooth: it’s still going to make your eyes water on the way down. But creators Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk ...

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THE SKED Review: “The Normal Heart”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Scream Queens”

THE SKED Season Finale Review: “American Horror Story: Coven”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Finale Review: “Glee”

THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “American Horror Story – Coven”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “American Horror Story: Hotel”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace”

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “American Horror Story – Asylum”

THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “The New Normal”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Scream Queens”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Finale Review: “The People v. OJ Simpson: American Crime Story”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “American Horror Story: Cult”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “American Horror Story: Freak Show”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Glee”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “American Horror Story: Cult”

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