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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “The Americans”

FX’s THE AMERICANS has been, by a substantial margin, the best new show of this season. And if tonight’s season finale was slightly less ambitious than we might have hoped in terms of delivering the shockin...

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THE SKED SERIES PREMIERE REVIEW: “The Americans”

THE AMERICANS: Wednesday 10PM on FX – DVR Alert The renaissance of pop culture spies–good and bad, ours and theirs, real-life and fictional–continues with FX’s new series THE AMERICANS. Joe We...

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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Hunted”

For reasons sociologists can ponder, we happen to be at a great moment for spy stories. Last year’s remake of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, the superb Homeland (barring last week’s speed-bump episode) and t...

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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Covert Affairs”

Cable’s USA Network has the reputation of being a place where procedurals basically repeat variations on the same episode over and over for years, until the series finally dies of old age. That’s certainly ...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Skyfall”

SKYFALL: Worth A Ticket – Bond Reborn For years–decades, actually–there have been periodic murmurings that a “real” director would one day take the helm of a James Bond movie. At various...

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THE SKED PILOT REVIEW: ‘Hunted”

HUNTED: Friday 10PM on Cinemax – Potential DVR Alert On the same night that coincidentally brought the season premiere of Nikita, we have a new series that treads similar ground, both centering on gorgeous, betra...

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THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Nikita”

NIKITA: Friday 9PM on CW WHERE WE WERE: Vanquishing Division. Percy is finally, truly dead, Amanda is gone, and Nikita (Maggie Q) and her cohorts–lover and now fiance Michael (Shane West), protege Alex (Lynds...

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THE SKED’S SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Person of Interest”

PERSON OF INTEREST: Thursday 9PM on CBS WHERE WE WERE: Watching Harold Finch (Michael Emerson), the secretive billionaire creator of the super-surveillance system that keeps tabs on all potential criminals and victim...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Bourne Legacy”

THE BOURNE LEGACY: Watch It At Home – Not Up To the Real Bournes THE BOURNE LEGACY has been concocted with a combination of ingenuity and desperation. It exists because Universal–a studio dangerously ligh...

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THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Covert Affairs”

COVERT AFFAIRS: Tuesday 10PM on USA WHERE WE WERE: At the CIA, where Annie Walker (Piper Perabo), the young, beautiful languages expert who supposedly works for the Smithsonian, is actually an agent. (She me...

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THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”

Our Review / 5 - Terrible

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”

TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY: Worth A Ticket – An Epic of Betrayals John LeCarre is (I guess one should say “arguably”) the greatest of all spy novelists, and his 1974 TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, ...

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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “The Americans”

THE SKED SERIES PREMIERE REVIEW: “The Americans”

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Hunted”

THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Covert Affairs”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Skyfall”

THE SKED PILOT REVIEW: ‘Hunted”

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Nikita”

THE SKED’S SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Person of Interest”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Bourne Legacy”

THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Covert Affairs”

THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”

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