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Boardwalk Empire Review: "Ourselves Alone" (2.2)

<em>Boardwalk Empire</em> Review: "Ourselves Alone" (2.2)

If asked what the first season of Boardwalk Empire is about, you’d almost certainly find yourself stumbling for an answer rather than having one at your fingertips. Not that every show needs a central focus, but for a sprawling HBO drama like this, it does really help. Boardwalk Empire‘s lack of momentum besides time moving forward has long been its stumbling block, and it’s because the first season didn’t feel like it was building towards anything. Sure, there was an election, but that will always be the case....  read more

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Community Review: "Biology 101" (3.1)

<em>Community</em> Review: "Biology 101" (3.1)

The end of Community‘s second season featured a real finale, real in the sense that it that actually had an effect on the show’s dynamics. With Pierce culled from the group seemingly forever, I’ve been wondering all summer what role he would play in season three. Without his constant antagonizing it seemed like this huge change would have an effect not just on the study group’s dynamics but also on pretty much every other aspect of the show. If you look back at the second season, a large number of plots revolve around Pierce’s love-hate relationship with everyone else and...  read more

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Awesome of the Day: Play Paintball With the Cast of The Wire

Awesome of the Day: Play Paintball With the Cast of <i>The Wire</i>

Live in New York? Have a few hundred bucks of disposable income? Then you could have the opportunity to live out one of the Paste Staff’s all-time dreams....  read more

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The 10 Greatest Anti-Heroes: #1 Omar Little

The 10 Greatest Anti-Heroes: #1 Omar Little

The world's most quotable stick-up man terrorizes hardened thugs with an arsenal of guns and a vocabulary that fuses streetwise slang with Shakespearean flair.  read more

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Martin Scorsese's Boardwalk Empire to Tap into Seedy, 1920s Atlantic City

Martin Scorsese's <em>Boardwalk Empire</em> to Tap into Seedy, 1920s Atlantic City

Martin Scorsese is moving forward with his new series for HBO. The network has bought 12 episodes of Boardwalk Empire including the pilot, and Scorsese and his crew were seen filming recently in Brooklyn....  read more

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The Wire: The Complete Series

The Wire: The Complete Series

My only real complaint about HBO’s full-series box set...  read more

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20 Best TV Characters of the Past 20 Years (#12-#9)

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Today, we present the next four characters...  read more

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