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Fox's sadomasochistic battle of the power ballads mercifully ends tonight, but it's been a jaded recording executive's ultimate summer fantasy.
By Carina Chocano
September 4, 2002
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A new PBS documentary delicately explores the lives of "100 percent American, 100 percent Arab" citizens, who find themselves permanent outsiders in a season of war.
By Carina Chocano
September 4, 2002
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Conservative watchdogs at the Parents Television Council now have scientific proof: Sabrina is better for your kids than Buffy! And "Doc," starring Billy Ray Cyrus, is the best show on TV.
By Carina Chocano
August 29, 2002
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All is not as it seems in "Contest Searchlight," Comedy Central's mockumentary series about the making of a bogus sitcom starring Peter Gallagher as Jesus. In chaps. In New York City.
By Carina Chocano
August 28, 2002
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Armed with devastating performances from Uma Thurman, Juliette Lewis and Gena Rowlands, director Mira Nair trains her sociologist's eye on the Garden State in HBO's "Hysterical Blindness."
By Carina Chocano
August 24, 2002
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Anna Nicole Smith is a parody of a blond bombshell in a parody of a TV show. Bloated, lonely and pathetic? Yes. The end of civilization? No.
By Carina Chocano
August 8, 2002
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When the networks start gleefully indulging in self-referential, self-mocking camp, as in NBC's terrifying "The Rerun Show," is it about time? Or is it just time for an attitude adjustment?
By Carina Chocano
August 1, 2002
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Shaken confidence, lower interest rates, slow recovery: A new season of "Sex and the City" explores the darker side of serial monogamy and finds it's a bear.
By Carina Chocano
July 25, 2002
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Connie Chung's new talk show, a parade of pedophilia and murder fueled by inane kindergarten-teacher musings, is so flat-out weird it just might acquire a cult following.
By Carina Chocano
July 18, 2002
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Tony Shalhoub plays a brilliant San Francisco detective (with a morbid fear of dairy products) in USA's agreeable old-school puzzler "Monk."
By Carina Chocano
July 11, 2002
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Three kindergarten girls are here to save the day. Are they making the world safe for female heroes, or making female heroes safe for the world? Who cares.
By Heather Havrilesky
July 2, 2002
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Amateur Whitney Houston covers! "Baywatch" babes turned low-rent spokesmodels! Obscene crank calls! If you found the prime-time season too taxing, summer TV is for you.
By Carina Chocano
June 27, 2002
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Pro-marriage revivalists praise matrimony as the way and the light. But are they bowing to a false god?
By Heather Havrilesky
June 24, 2002
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In Michael Apted's sad, hopeful and deeply moving new documentary series on marriage in America," "I do" isn't a happy ending -- but rather an uncertain beginning.
By Carina Chocano
June 15, 2002
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The cops, firefighters and paramedics of ABC's reality series "Boston 24/7" are so inspiring, dedicated and hardworking it's ... weirdly depressing. Still, just try to switch it off.
By Carina Chocano
June 6, 2002
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In the competitive world of online dating, singles brand themselves as sexy commodities. But what happens when the wrapping comes off?
By Heather Havrilesky
May 15, 2002
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Vicariously thrilling, coldly pragmatic and wildly popular, TV's new dating shows are the 21st century equivalent of medieval courtly love -- in a hot tub.
By Carina Chocano
May 9, 2002
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Sure, she was scary-skinny and her skirts were too short. But don't blame the unfiltered neuroses of "Ally McBeal" for the crisis contemporary women (and men) face.
By Carina Chocano
May 2, 2002
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It's news! It's chat! It's recipes and jewelry tips and bimbonics and fat-cheerleader jokes! Welcome to the frat-house hangout zone of "The Best Damn Sports Show, Period."
By Carina Chocano
April 25, 2002
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From post-"Bridget" fiction to ABC's frightening "The Bachelor," the wedding porn genre mates emasculated Mr. Rights with soulless, life-size Barbies.
By Heather Havrilesky
April 25, 2002
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Jon Favreau talks about "Dinner for Five," where Denis Leary eats with Famke Janssen, and Marilyn Manson terrorizes Daryl Hannah with stories about his amateur porn movies.
By Carina Chocano
April 18, 2002
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In MTV's smash hit "The Osbournes," George W.'s favorite Satan-worshiping metal maniac is just a frazzled, law-abiding dad.
By Carina Chocano
April 11, 2002
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On FX's "The Shield," a squinting sheriff with a loyal posse dispenses vigilante justice to the lawless and the overly tan: It's a cop show George Bush could love.
By Carina Chocano
April 4, 2002
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Fox's "Greg the Bunny" offers cheap, hilarious gags on the set of a fake PBS "edutainment." Can it survive the single-camera sitcom curse?
By Carina Chocano
March 28, 2002
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The speeches are boring, for starters. Why don't those stars think about me?
By Heather Havrilesky
March 22, 2002
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