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  • We're, like, totally lawyers -- as if!

    David E. Kelley's ditsy new "girls club" is a great step backward for the legal profession, women in the workplace, San Francisco and decent TV.
    By Carina Chocano October 17, 2002

  • Holy Batbabes!

    In the WB's bizarrely entertaining "Birds of Prey," Batman has skipped town -- but his illegitimate daughter and a reshaped Batgirl are kickin' butt in New Gotham.
    By Carina Chocano October 14, 2002

  • Giddyup, spaceman

    Buffy's creator gallops into outer space with "Firefly," taking the connection between sci-fi and westerns a little too literally.
    By Carina Chocano October 3, 2002

  • Family, work and literary vampirism

    This week's new TV sitcoms offer two dismal duds -- and a sly, bittersweet comedy about a dissipated writer who hits on his own daughter.
    By Carina Chocano September 30, 2002

  • Same old mish-"M*A*S*H"! Stat!

    On "MDs" and "Presidio Med," rogue, renegade and maverick doctors search for a cure for HMOs.
    By Carina Chocano September 26, 2002

  • Play it again, scam

    Crimes shown backward, heroes sent back to high school, and yet another trip to the '60s. This week's lame new TV shows prove a trip down Memory Lane can be a snooze.
    By Carina Chocano September 23, 2002

  • Fall's tube of plenty

    Saintly small-town doctors, Lynchian mysteries and repeating your teen years, twice: The new prime-time season lurches out of the gate this week.
    By Carina Chocano September 17, 2002

  • Sympathy for the misanthrope

    It would be easy to feel sorry for "Curb Your Enthusiasm's" Larry David -- if only he wasn't so damn unlikable.
    By Carina Chocano September 17, 2002

  • "Everything comes to an end"

    Money, drugs, psychiatry and rampant individualism threaten both of Tony's families as "The Sopranos" sounds an even darker, bleaker tone.
    By Carina Chocano September 16, 2002

  • How to make an "American Idol"

    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

  • Arab-Americans, one year later

    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

  • The filth and the fury

    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

  • When "Friends" meet the Lord

    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

  • Greetings from Desperation, N.J.

    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

  • Stranger in a strange land

    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

  • Heavy meta

    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

  • Meat market plunges to five-year low

    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

  • CNN's breakout comedy hit

    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

  • Watching the defective

    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

  • Cruel summer

    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

  • Who wants to marry a regular person?

    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

  • They care a lot

    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

  • Thy tight buns are like a red, red rose

    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

  • Bye-bye, dancing baby

    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

  • Every damn sports show at the same time

    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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