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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: the Cat Lady, RedefinedPlus: We stalk ever closer to the return of Amy Ryan.
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    24: Colonel Dubaku Has Problems at HomeAnd the president has an issue of her own.
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    The Office Sets Up Amy Ryan’s Return!We have an instant cliff-hanger.
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    24: Janeane Garofalo Makes Us SadHollywood’s a tough racket.
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    The Office: Truly Special Super Bowl EpisodeLast night’s hour-long ‘Office’ totally did not suck!
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    Will the Office Super Bowl Special Be the Worst Episode Ever?There’s a disturbing precedent for it.
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    24: Terrorists Take It to Kidron, OhioJack and Tony are kidnapping future leaders of Sengala and burying FBI agents alive, all, apparently, over diamonds.
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    The Office Slacks in Advance of a Very Special EpisodeThis episode exists outside of Scranton space and time.
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    24: Tortured LogicStupid us, we really believed the producers when they said they would ease up on the torture business.
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    The Office Returns Dirtier, Crazier, and MeanerAngela? Apparently she deserves it.
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    24 Season Premiere, Part 2: How the Mighty Have FallenJack’s day is already one-sixth over!
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    24 Season Premiere: The Absurd-o-Meter Is Pressed Back Into Duty‘24’ has shut down CTU, moved the action from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. and introduced an (almost) all-new cast. And it’s better! But still absurd.
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    Heroes: The Final RecapIt might seem strange to remember now, but there really was a time when ‘Heroes’ seemed exciting, new, even revelatory.
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    The Office: Christmas Mayhem Depressingly Over-the-TopThe main plot involves Meredith drunkenly setting her hair on fire and Michael — the one serving her all the drinks — forcibly driving her to a rehab center.
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    Heroes Tackles … ‘Intelligent Design’?You might think this is the start to a metaphor about creationism and evolution. You’d be wrong.
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    The Office: Surprise Wedding!Well, after nearly four and a half seasons, we finally got a wedding.
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    ‘Heroes’: Deep SighAfter all the drama, everyone’s powers have returned. But the characters continue to be killed off — and also brought back to life.
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    ‘Heroes’: They Should’ve Lost Their Powers Ages Ago!Sylar flips his hand. Hiro squints real hard. Nathan tries to fly and just falls in the river.
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    The Office: Jim and Pam Dodge a Bullet! Yes, Another One!Jim’s a small-town imp socially just stunted enough to think it’s a good idea to buy his parents’ house for him and his fiancée without telling her.
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    ‘Heroes’ Goes for a Full RebootWhen fewer people are watching your show and grumps like us can’t stop ripping on it, this is probably not the worst idea.
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    The Office: Give Michael a Break Already!Michael’s never seemed sadder than at the end of this episode, after being forced to do the walk of shame in Winnipeg.
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    We Finally Learn Why ‘Heroes’ Hasn’t Been Making Any SenseIt’s been controlled by a character who was just introduced.
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    The Office: Schrute Farms, Here We Come!Remember: Schrute Farms is the No. 1 beet-related agro-tourism destination in northeastern Pennsylvania.
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    The Office: Farewell, Amy RyanEven though she’s only been on the show for six episodes, no possible good-bye could do her justice.
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    ‘Heroes’: Let the Housecleaning Begin!The show, finally, is starting to kill people off.
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    The Office: Couples’ EditionWith an episode that focused solely on the three main pairings, it’s worth taking a look at how they’re progressing, and their chances at success.
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    Robert Forster, Hero to ‘Heroes’Forster has had about two minutes of screen time, and already this feels like a different show.
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    The Office: Ding-dong, the Witch Is DeadThe good news: a mock delivery involving Dwight. The bad: the return of Jan.
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    ‘Heroes’: Damned If We KnowLast night, we officially threw up our hands.
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    The Office: More Holly, Pam, and Outback Steakhouse Ribs, Please!Not to get too ahead of ourselves, but how will ‘The Office’ recover from losing Amy Ryan?
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    ‘Heroes’: A Gouda Moment to Take the TacoOf all the preposterous, half-wit moments in ‘Heroes’ history, a five-second scene in last night’s episode might have truly taken the taco.
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    ‘Heroes’: The Buddy-Movie EpisodeWith all the different permutations ‘Heroes’ has gone through, the one thing it has never been is a buddy-cop movie. Well, check that off the list.
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    The Office Season-Premiere Shocker!For about three seasons, devoted ‘Office’ fans have been waiting for the shoe to drop on the Pam and Jim relationship, but the perils of their plotline were obvious from the first episode.
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    ‘Heroes’ Returns, Banishing the Villainy That Was Last Season“That’s all behind me now,” Sylar tells Claire, “like a long night after a bad taco.” That’s right: Season two was like a bad taco.
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    Ten Things You Need to Know About ‘The Wrestler’Come December, everybody’s going to be talking about this movie — but who wants to wait that long?