The 20 Best Television Series Finales
As summer approaches, this year's primetime television season begins its gradual wind-down with several beloved shows closing up shop for good. read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayMartin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street Gets November Date
Just in time for awards season, Martin Scorsese’s newest film, The Wolf of Wall Street, will open in theaters on Nov. 15, according to The Hollywood Reporter. read more
Found in: Movies, NewsThe 35 Greatest TV Duos of All Time
Friendship drives so much of the emotional core of a TV show that scores of shows have led with it in the title. Take a look and see if you have a relationship similar to any of these. read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DaySopranos Actress Denise Borino-Quinn: 1964-2010
Denise Borino-Quinn, known as Ginny Sacrimoni on The Sopranos, has passed away after a battle with liver cancer. She was 46.... read more
Found in: TV, NewsThe 20 Best Fictional Crime Bosses
Two episodes in, and Boardwalk Empire's Nucky Johnson (Steve Buscemi) seems destined to become one of the all-time great fictional crime bosses. read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayThe 10 Best TV Dramas for Marathon Viewing
We're talking more than a fun afternoon of House or Law and Order reruns on Bravo or TNT. These dramas will compel you to call-in sick to work just so you can find out what happens next. read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayThe 10 Best TV Title Sequences
It's no stretch to say that a TV program's title sequence can be the most memorable part of the show... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayThe 10 Best (And 10 Wonderfully Worst) TV Dads of All Time
Bad or good, these are our favorite patres familias that keep us laughing, cringing, but—most of all—watching, throughout the history of TV. read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayWill the Lost Series Finale Take its Place in the Pantheon of Serialized Dramas?
Lost airs its final episode tonight, and three of its high-profile contemporaries, The Sopranos, The Wire and Battlestar Galactica have also aired their finales to much praise and fanfare. Their respective creators have run the press gamut elucidating—and sometimes defending—their work. Lost, however, presents the most daunting challenge as showrunners Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof have created a complex web of characters and thematic threads, all while bending not just narrative conventions but even our perception of time and space. As such, we’re taking a look at what these finales did right. Warning: The following pages contain spoilers pertaining to... read more
Found in: TV, FeaturesThe 10 Greatest Anti-Heroes
The regular-old hero has served us well for the past few thousand years, but ever since the time of that legendary literary bon vivant Lord Byron, we’ve learned to enjoy our heroes with a little bit of moral nuance. They’re human beings, just like you and I, only more cunning, erudite, world-weary, and charismatic than we could ever hope to be. But they’re also more emotionally resonant than the traditional white-knight hero precisely because they’re such deeply flawed people, grappling with eminently relatable self-doubt and moral hazard. Indeed, it’s no stretch to say that the anti-hero is usurping the heroic... read more
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