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Radiohead to Perform on SNL Season Premiere

Britain's seminal art-rock band Radiohead has never exactly gravitated toward mainstream exposure. But lately the notoriously aloof quintet has been warming up and making an effort to reach a wider audience — especially in America.  read more

House Review: Season 6 Premiere, "Broken"

Season 6 begins with House in a mental institution for a Vicodin addiction and subsequent hallucinations. (It also begins with a great dream-like sequence of him shackled to his hospital bed set to Radiohead's "No Surprises.") Except for a two-minute phone conversation with Wilson, none of the usual characters are in the episode. Except that they sort of are....  read more

House Review: Season 6 Premiere, "Broken"

Season 6 begins with House in a mental institution for a Vicodin addiction and subsequent hallucinations. (It also begins with a great dream-like sequence of him shackled to his hospital bed set to Radiohead's "No Surprises.") Except for a two-minute phone conversation with Wilson, none of the usual characters are in the episode. Except that they sort of are....  read more

TV Detail: Samantha Who? review. Season 2 Premiere

Samantha Who? was one of the breakout shows of 2007, the highest rated new sitcom of the fall season and earned Jean Smart an Emmy for Supporting Actress in a Comedy. Not too shabby for a show that had to endure a huge writer’s strike in it’s first season. Although it left the air in December, the show returned in April to finish out a shortened 15-episode run but was eventually picked up for the fall 08-09’ season. ...  read more

TV Detail: Dexter Review. Season Premiere and Episode 3.02

The first two episodes of Dexter’s third season open with the kind of uncharacteristically contrived setups that brought the first two seasons to their hasty conclusions. In the premiere, Dexter (Michael C. Hall) is briefly at the cheeriest we’ve seen him in some time after he avoided detection late last season with the kind of dumb luck he’s been taught his whole life to avoid. His escape was liberating in that sense, with the mythology surrounding his father apparently settled and a new sense of possibility ahead of him. ...  read more