- 12/20/13 /
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Seitz’s Top Comedy Episodes of 2013
See what our TV critic thought was the best of the best.
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- 12/16/13 /
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Seitz: A Sense of Futility Hung Over the Homeland Season Finale
The Homeland we were all familiar with is probably dead.
- 12/16/13 /
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Seitz: Treme’s Final Episodes Are Its Most Fully Satisfying
Among the show's many sweet ironies is that you don’t appreciate what you had, be it a TV show, a city, or a way of life, until you realize it’s fading away and there’s nothing you can do but say good-bye.
- 12/9/13 /
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Seitz: Six by Sondheim Is One of the Best Films About the Artistic Process I’ve Seen
The documentary premieres tonight on HBO.
- 12/6/13 /
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Seitz on A&E;’s Bonnie and Clyde: Mad, Bad, and Painful to Watch
A bloated, meandering, redundant bore.
- 12/4/13 /
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Seitz on Mob City: Gorgeous, Old-Movie Shadowland
Frank Darabont’s TNT miniseries is noir without nuance, but gorgeous to look at.
- 12/2/13 /
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Seitz on Dan Harmon’s Rick and Morty: The Unhinged Quality of Community Meets the Sci-fi Stylings of Futurama
The new series debuts on Adult Swim at midnight.
- 12/2/13 /
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TV Review: The Mesmerizing Madness of Brody Stevens: Enjoy It!
What happens when a stand-up comedian blurs the lines of sanity and insanity?
- 12/1/13 /
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Seitz on Treme’s Fourth Season: A Farewell and a Benediction
The show's final half-season of five episodes premieres tonight.
- 11/29/13 /
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Seitz: Homeland Is the Smartest and Dumbest Cable Drama I’ve Ever Seen
Homeland might as well change its title to As the Intelligence World Turns.
- 11/21/13 /
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Seitz on Alpha House: A Political Comedy That Finds Itself Stuck in the Middle
Amazon's first TV show, created by Doonesbury's Garry Trudeau, stars John Goodman as a U.S. senator.
- 11/18/13 /
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Seitz on Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley: A Simple But Perfect Documentary
Debuting on HBO tonight, this Goldberg-directed documentary profiles a trailblazing African-American comic.
- 11/18/13 /
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Seitz: Bill Cosby Is As You Remember Him in Far From Finished
Cosby looks his age here, absolutely, and that means that his brand of humor no longer seems amusingly incongruous.
- 11/15/13 /
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Seitz: Almost Human Steals From the Best
Starring Karl Urban as a cop in 2048 with a robot partner.
- 10/31/13 /
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TV Review: Sundance Channel’s The Returned Is Uncannily Beautiful
The dead come back to life in a small town in France — just don't call the import also known as Les Revenants a zombie show.
- 10/28/13 /
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Seitz: Boardwalk Empire Finally Finds Its Footing
The fourth season may not be the show’s most exciting, but it is in many ways its best.
- 10/22/13 /
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TV Review: Pretty Little Liars Spinoff Ravenswood Is Scarily Routine
Another functional yet fundamentally uninspired teen show!
- 10/21/13 /
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Seitz: American Horror Story, The Returned, and Dracula Do Small-Screen Horror Right
It’s a bloody good time for horror on television.
- 10/18/13 /
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Seitz on The Birthday Boys, IFC’s Latest Sketch-Comedy Series
With Bob Odenkirk heavily involved, fans of smart, quirky sketch comedy are well served.
- 10/10/13 /
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TV Review: Once Upon a Time in Wonderland
If you like Once Upon a Time ...
- 10/9/13 /
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Seitz on American Horror Story: Coven’s WTF Needle Starts Spinning Immediately and Doesn’t Stop
The first ten minutes rank with the most disgusting sequences ever aired on American TV.
- 10/9/13 /
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TV Review: Teen Sci-fi Gets Dour on The Tomorrow People
Another teen sci-fi show.
- 10/3/13 /
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Seitz on The Millers and Welcome to the Family: Two Rotten Peas in a Pod
Trying to milk laughs from solid gold cast members and failing miserably.
- 10/3/13 /
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Seitz on Sean Saves the World: Winning Cast, Serviceable Sitcom
The cast is great. The jury's still out on the other stuff.
- 9/29/13 /
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Seitz on Masters of Sex: This Intelligent Drama Stays Sexy By Playing Coy
This new Showtime drama stars Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan as a pair of sex researchers.