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July 23, 2015
Summer TV Mailbag: Seasonal Awards! The ‘True Detective’ Drinking Game! Shows Without Zombies or Spies!

There are simply more quality shows on TV right now than I ever would have expected, a dazzling mix of unexpected freshmen and surging veterans. Let’s answer your questions about them.
September 25, 2014
MLB Playoff Myths: Beware the Misleading Narratives!

While sabermetrics hasn’t supplied a clear and correct answer to the question of what wins in the playoffs, it has rejected several wrong ones. Despite being debunked, though, some of those suspect explanations resurface every season, which makes the last week of September the perfect time for a pre-playoff PSA. Even if you don’t have a team in the race, you can amuse yourself for the next several weeks by engaging in playoff-myth bingo!
November 25, 2013
Ease Your ‘Bound 2’ PTSD With Seth Rogen and James Franco’s ‘Bound 3’

A great deal has been written and Photoshopped with regard to Kanye West’s video for Kim Kardashian, “Bound 2.” If you haven’t seen the video, this would be the best time to watch it. When I wrote about “Bound 2" last week, I expressed disappointment that the video did not play out exactly as I’d […]
July 17, 2013
Death by Newsroom

Yes. It can happen. Plus, the return of Breaking Bad and all your other television issues addressed in this month’s mailbag.
May 22, 2013
Developmental Psychiatry

Is the return of Arrested Development really such a great idea? And all your other small-screen questions answered in this month’s TV mailbag.
May 10, 2013
Black and Brown Blues

A visit inside — OK, near — the Cleveland war room on the occasion of the NFL draft.
September 30, 2011
Fall TV Cancellation Fantasy Scorecard: Playboy Club Disappoints, Free Agents Is Doomed

The early going of a baseball season is often slow: Teams need extra time to gel, personalities need to mesh, and scoring is down. The inaugural Grantland Fall TV Cancellation League is no different: two weeks in and action, as well as the pickings, are slim. There is only one out-of-the-box breakout hit — Fox’s […]
June 20, 2011
What’s the Score?

The Fox Box and the demise of the most ubiquitous phrase in the English language.

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