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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

Back to Basics - The 30 Best TV Shows of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[12.Jan.09] :. The Year in TV was a lot like the US economy: struggling until summer and then tanking under the hope of a 2009 comeback. Still, our staff found 30 solid reasons to be cheerful come entertainment investment time.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

 

TV DVD Review

Life: Season 1

by Jake Meaney

[29.Oct.08] :. Without Lewis, Life is a solid if mostly unremarkable program, somewhere between willfully quirky and gruesome for gruesome’s sake.

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TV Review

Life

by Cynthia Fuchs

[29.Sep.08] :. Charlie (Damian Lewis) teeters incessantly on the line between cocky and ridiculous, quirky and respectable -- as if he understands the differences.

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TV Review

Life

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Sep.07] :. Life's details of color and composition do the work usually handled by too much expository dialogue, granting access to Dani and Charlie's thinking.

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Film DVD Review

Dottie Gets Spanked (1993)

by Daniel Mudie Cunningham

[17.Feb.05] :. Dottie Gets Spanked contextualizes and foretells the artfully designed surfaces and off-kilter universes of Haynes' later successes.

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Film Review

Hanging Up (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

A few nights after seeing Hanging Up, unable to sleep and channel-surfing, I came upon an Oprah episode, one of those repeats that air 2 or 3 in the morning. Its format is one of...

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