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Will Leitch has been a contributing editor at New York since 2008. He is the founder of the late sports website Deadspin and author of six books, including the Edgar-nominated novel How Lucky and the upcoming novel The Time Has Come.

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    The Office Recap: Cut and PasteWe had totally forgotten how fat Steve Carell was the first season.
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    Bill Simmons, ‘the Sports Guy,’ Saw Talkshowgate Coming, and Now He’s Got Advice for ConanThe ESPN columnist called this whole debacle back in March. So maybe he should change his name to “The Talk Show Guy.”
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    The Office Recap: So This Is ChristmasWe are hesitant to be too Scroogy here. But …
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    Will Leitch Asks REO Speedwagon’s Kevin Cronin About the New REO Speedwagon Video Game“It’s aimed at moms, but kids can play it too. I can’t wait for my kids to get home from school today so they can play, now that our Internet is working again.”
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    The Office: No FutureThe slow, steady, unceasing collapse of hopes and dreams continues!
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    Curb Your Enthusiasm: Synecdoche, New YorkLarry David playing George Costanza is one of the funniest scenes either ‘Curb’ or ‘Seinfeld’ has ever produced.
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    The Office: Like a BossHow desperate does a company have to be to bring Michael onstage with them?
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    Curb Your Enthusiasm: It’s Been Three Years …A riotously funny episode that played like a ‘Seinfeld’ reunion show.
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    The Office of No OfficeHow, in this economy, is a small regional paper company continuing to survive? It may not.
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    Curb Your Enthusiasm: Protect Ya NeckThe most outrageous moments from the best episode this season.
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    The Office: Mother InferiorYet another promising story line appears to wrap itself up. Plus: video!
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    Curb Your Enthusiasm: Swan SongThis funny and focused episode is a welcome return to form.
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    The Office: Horribilis InterruptusWe could watch a full half-hour of Michael horrifying young children, but, alas, the haunted-house story line is dropped.
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    Curb Your Enthusiasm: Making a SplashLarry’s stream of consciousness.
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    The Office: Family AffairMichael is sleeping with Pam’s mom.
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    Curb Your Enthusiasm: Roller DerbyFor the second consecutive week, we end with Larry David on the verge of receiving a savage beating.
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    The Office: Mob SceneIf this is what ‘The Office’ devolves into with Pam and Jim gone, then get them back already.
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    Curb Your Enthusiasm: Caviar WishesA distinctly Larry David question: Who passes the fame threshold?
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    The Office: Let’s Get MarriedYou’ll get your lovey-dovey payoff, but you’re watching THIS first.
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    Curb Your Enthusiasm: Enter the SeinfeldLarry makes the worst of the reunion.
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    The Office: Twofer“Where would Catholicism be without the Popes?”
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    Curb Your Enthusiasm: Driven to DistractionHere’s how this episode goes down.
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    The Office: Sensations … EmotionsMichael stabs Jim in the back, wonders whether he should have a “safe word.”
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    Curb Your Enthusiasm Season Premiere: SickoCounting down the episode’s three most outrageous moments. (We are not lacking for material.)
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    The Office Season Premiere: Year of the Nard DogEd Helms on the verge; everything back to (wacky, outrageous) normal.
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    24 Season Finale: Meet Alan WilsonA unifying theory of ‘24.’
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    The Office Season Finale: Wait for It, Wait for It …Not bad for a wrap-up of what was, perhaps, the show’s best season.
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    24: If You See Something …Say something! Unless you’re slowing down a guy who’s trying to get rid of a bioweapon.
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    The Office: You’d Better Work — Work It, GirlNow that the show has wrapped up its most compelling and exhausting story arc of the last two seasons, we take a break this week … for a dance party.
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    24: God Finds JackBut does Jack find the terrorists?
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    The Office: Victory Comes at a Cost!After last week’s triumph for Michael over corporate efficiency and Stringer Bell, the real world awaits him upon his return to Dunder Mifflin.
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    24: Finally, Jack Loses ItPlus: Love triangles among terrorists!
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    The Office: A Triumph for Michael — and for the ShowMichael Scott defeats Stringer Bell. Believe it.
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    24: Guess Who’s Actually EvilIt’s not Jack.
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    The Office: Get Your War OnWith all the upheaval going on in the last few weeks, the dramatic shift in the Michael-Dwight dynamic has been hinted at but barely explored — until last night.
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    24: Tony Almeida Sends the Absurd-o-Meter Off the ChartsLast night was his 116th episode, and we feel like we know him pretty well. But no.
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    The New Office Same As the Old OfficeAfter Michael, seemingly out of nowhere, quit his job at Dunder Mifflin, we finally found out where this show is going in last night’s two episodes.
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    24: Make Love, and Also WarThe First Daughter will do absolutely anything to kill a story.
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    Michael Schur, Man Behind The Office’s Mose Schrute, Announces Well-Deserved BreakHe has a “wonderful excuse not to have to put on that stupid neck beard again.”
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    24: Jack — Exposed!We learn Jack is Really Infected and Dying, allowing every character to look all forlorn and Jack to do his I’m Having Feelings But I Am Too Proud to Show Them thing.
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    The Office: A Paper Company Is BornWell, as had been rumored all week, it’s now official: Michael really has quit Dunder Mifflin.
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    24: Intimations of Jack’s DownfallHe’s not only poisoned, he’s framed.
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    The Office: Stringer Bell Brings the Hammer DownCharles Minor throws the whole branch into upheaval with his cold insistence on order.
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    24: No, You Don’t Know JackThe best episode since the season five finale.
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    The Office: Michael Finally Goes Too FarFortunately, this is one of the funnier recent episodes.
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    24: That Wasn’t So Bad, Was It?Jack’s alive, but man, he’s pissed.
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    The Office: We Did Not Need to Know That About DwightHappy Valentine’s Day?
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    24: And Now to Go Way, Way Over the Top …Even for ‘24,’ this was a bit much. Well played!
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    24: Terrorist of LoveThis season’s first story line wraps up, defying expectations.
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    24: Janeane Garofalo Almost Becomes ImportantTurns out there is a mole at the FBI feeding information to Colonel Dubaku!
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