The curated portfolio of film journalist Joe Lipsett
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After looking at the previews for last night’s episode a few weeks ago, I’ll admit that I was dreading the latest episode of Smash. Surprisingly enough, I thought it was one of, if not the best, episodes of the series thus far.
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What a difference a week makes! Last week we saw the arrival of the highly anticipated and universally lauded new HBO show Girls. Well those rosy reviews are old news, and we spent the better part of the last week exploring an almost immediate backlash to the once golden child. How can we possibly talk about this week’s episode when there is so much being said about the series itself?
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Mad Men switches up its storytelling techniques this week, showing us three concurrent stories of Peggy (Elisabeth Moss), Roger (John Slattery) and Don (Jon Hamm). Likely to be polarizing to many viewers, I didn’t find the narrative deviation distracting as the episode was still ripe with symbolism and character development.
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Last week’s Lost Girl wasall about the Bo (Anna Silk) & Dyson (Kris Holden-Ried) fallout in the wake of his loss of passion. This week’s episode revisits the same idea, but it does so in a much more powerfully emotional way. Plus Hale (K.C. Collins) is finally allowed to get in on the action!
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Deals! Who’s making them, who’s keeping them and…oh dear lord that woman just birthed a smoke monster! Another week, another ridiculously entertaining episode of HBO’s Game Of Thrones.
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The return (hee hee – get it?) of ABC’s fairytale show starts off the final batch of new episodes for the season, which means that we should be tearing it up en route to the finale, right?
Well…sort of.
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Fringe continues its annual trend of pushing limits in its 19th episode of the season. As we’ve seen in previous seasons, the 19th episode is usually the most ‘high-concept’ and mind-blowing episode of the season and ‘Letters of Transit’ does not disappoint. This week, we’re launched way into future in the year 2036 where the Observers have become rulers of the Earth.
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Look out! It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s… character growth! In the span of a single week, Liz decides to keep pursuing adoption, Jenna commits to Paul, and Jack successful sells defective couches. Alright so maybe they don’t all make great leaps forward, but two out of three is still something to get excited about.
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Awake hits the skids in a less than stellar episode that highlights the persistent issues I have with the show.
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It’s been three weeks since we last saw our intrepid crew of teen witches. In the last new episode, ‘Sacrifice’ John Blackwell (Joe Lando) gave them a mission: find the Elders’ crystals and unite them to protect themselves against the witch hunters. Tonight the show takes another leap forward as several crystals are discovered, and two big events occur which are sure to have a a big impact on the remaining in the season.
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