A heart-stopping media spectacle ends as 6-year-old Falcon Heene is found safe. But what were we watching, and why?
By Heather Havrilesky Oct 15, 2009
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Why has Courteney Cox's painfully manic midlife-crisis sitcom been embraced by fans and critics?
By Heather Havrilesky
October 14, 2009
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Or maybe Matt Weiner knows that life in America really is that strange and brutal
By Heather Havrilesky
September 28, 2009
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"Mad Men" and "30 Rock" win! Ricky Gervais kills! This is last year's ceremony, plus one earnest, singing host
By Heather Havrilesky
September 21, 2009
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HBO's popular vampire dramedy ends in a glorious explosion of gore and goofiness
By Heather Havrilesky
September 14, 2009
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A mean-spirited comedy about a "loser" college features dropouts, middle-aged divorcees and Chevy Chase. Hurray!
By Heather Havrilesky
September 1, 2009
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Male escorts on the truth -- and fiction -- behind the HBO show
By Tracy Clark-Flory
August 8, 2009
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The "American Idol" judge has given her final critique. And we have a few suggested replacements
By Salon staff
August 5, 2009
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"American Idol" should lose Abdul once and for all
By Heather Havrilesky
July 21, 2009
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FX's twisted cop drama may be one of the top 10 TV shows of all time. So why didn't it get any nominations?
By Heather Havrilesky
July 16, 2009
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Jon and Kate! Octo-Mom! Speidi! Stars are out, ordinary people are in -- until we render them as soulless as celebs
By Heather Havrilesky
June 4, 2009
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For seven years I ignored the world's biggest pop culture spectacle. But thanks to my daughter -- and the stunningly original Adam Lambert -- I finally caved.
By Gary Kamiya
April 19, 2009
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As blockbuster rapper T.I. heads for prison, his reality series prompts the nagging question: Can you really scare kids straight?
By Baz Dreisinger
March 31, 2009
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Will the cylons triumph? Will Baltar and Roslin survive? All these answers and more as the celebrated science-fiction epic comes to an end.
By Laura Miller
March 21, 2009
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A complete (updated!) primer on the smartest sci-fi TV show ... maybe ever.
By Thomas Rogers
January 16, 2009
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Lackluster pilots, slumping sophomore shows and the devolution of the serial drama. The golden age of TV suddenly looked tarnished in 2008.
By Heather Havrilesky
December 28, 2008
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For the past eight years, Jon Stewart, Tina Fey and other comedians have had us laughing through our tears. If Obama wins, will the laughter die?
By Thomas Schaller
November 4, 2008
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CW's "Privileged," "90210" and "Gossip Girl" aren't merely escapist fantasies, they're twisted fables that teach teens the countless advantages of being filthy rich.
By Heather Havrilesky
September 15, 2008
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Our fifth annual award to the most underappreciated show in all of TV land.
By Heather Havrilesky
September 6, 2008
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Attention, reality-TV programmers: "I'm From Sky Mall" and "Hangover CSI" -- you're gonna love them!
By Sarah Hepola
September 5, 2008
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Learn more about the fall TV season's new comedies, using this handy clip 'n' save chart!
By Heather Havrilesky
September 5, 2008
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Shows based on international hits are flooding the fall lineup. Has the U.S. TV industry run out of fresh ideas?
By Thomas Rogers
September 4, 2008
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There are shows we love even when they don't love themselves. For them, Salon staffers stage an intervention.
By Salon staff
September 3, 2008
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On TV this fall, motorcycle outlaws, vampires and superpowered misfits roar past good and evil, reflecting the wishful thinking of a nation in decline.
By Heather Havrilesky
September 2, 2008
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Learn more about the fall TV season's new dramas, using this handy clip 'n' save chart!
By Heather Havrilesky
September 2, 2008
The boy and the balloon
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Has "Mad Men" gone mad?
The Emmys are a rerun!
Finale recap: "True Blood"
Best new TV: "Community"
Are they "Hung"?
Should Orly Taitz replace Paula Abdul?
Hey, hey, Paula! Consider this a divorce
Emmy loves "Mad Men," snubs "The Shield"!
The triumph of the uncelebrity
How I learned to love (and hate) "American Idol"
Crime, punishment ... and MTV
Goodbye, "Galactica"
Everything you were afraid to ask about "Battlestar Galactica" 
The year the small screen fell flat
The end of the satirical industrial complex?
Loaded
And the Buffy goes to ...
Reality shows we'd like to see 
A comedy tonight? Good luck! 
Television's foreign affair
TV rehab
Above the law
Of magic, madness and motorcycles
Broadsheet
How the World Works
War Room