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The Wire: The Complete Fifth Season

by Chris Barsanti

[15.Aug.08] :. The dense mythology, painstakingly created over five novelistic seasons, has enough drama packed inside to be easily spun out for the next five, ten, 15 years.

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The Wire

by Jesse Hicks

[27.Jan.08] :. In David Simon's indictment of American capitalism, numbers -- say, crime stats and school test scores -- no longer have an epistemic value, they don't refer to any external reality.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

High Redefinition: The 30 Best TV Shows of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[18.Jan.08] :. In memoriam of a TV season cut down before its prime time, PopMatters staff celebrates the Top 30 TV Shows of 2007. Some are old favorites. Others have barely made their impression felt. But at a time when all broadcast fortunes are up in the air, they definitely deserve the recognition.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best of TV on DVD Feature

Part 5 - Beyond the Envelope

by PopMatters Staff

[12.Oct.07] :. The format forced the issue among cult and commercial products. And TV on DVD highlighted the cream of the creative, forward thinking crop.

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Life Support

by Iquo B. Essien

[9.Mar.07] :. What shines through in Life Support are the life experiences of safe sex advocates and real women living with the virus.

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‘Life’ of a Queen: Latifah digs deep for an HBO movie

by Marisa Guthrie [New York Daily News (MCT)]

[8.Mar.07] :. NEW YORK—Queen Latifah has had her share of big laughs and bigger triumphs. And her comic timing is as reliable as a sitcom laugh track. But often the performers we’re accustomed to...

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Time Encapsulating: The Best DVDs of 2006

by PopMatters Staff

[10.Jan.07] :. From solid single issues to amazingly complete film and television compilations, the works highlighted here argue for DVD's continued importance.

 
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The Wire

by Jesse Hicks

[20.Sep.06] :. This is the consequence of America's broken systems: a young boy staring into the darkness, wondering what else his future might bring.

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When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Aug.06] :. When the Levees Broke, elegant and anguished, encourages you to see, and more importantly, to care about and act on what you see. It is political in the most significant sense, and won't let you forget it.

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