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    Seitz on 666 Park Avenue: A Dark Heart, But a Network SoulThis new ABC horror series plays something like Fantasy Island’s sinister cousin.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    Seitz on Elementary: The Game Is AflatThis is a slight but watchable show, yet more brain candy from CBS’s vending machine.
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    Seitz on Last Resort: A Sub Thriller Executed With Military PrecisionLike a professional sailor, this show never makes a big deal of its excellence.
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    Seitz on The Neighbors: What Can I Say? It Made Me LaughBut I can’t explain why, exactly.
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    Seitz on Ben and Kate: Infected With a Case of the CutesFox should have called this show New Guy! (Get it?)
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    Seitz on Vegas: A CBS Crime Procedural Tries for Mad Men GlitzIts no-fuss directness is appealing. We may come back in future weeks to get our Dennis Quaid fix.
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    Seitz: The Mindy Project Is a Thoughtful Riff on Rom-Com ClichésThe long-awaited show from the former Office writer-star premieres tonight.
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    Seitz on CBS’s Partners: Call It Okay, But Don’t Call It ProgressWhen an LGBT-friendly show like this can debut and be greeted with a collective shrug, we suppose that’s kind of a positive thing?
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    Seitz: The Mob Doctor Is The Mob Doctor’s Most Interesting ElementThis new medical-crime drama premieres tonight on Fox.
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    Seitz on Revolution: Bright Pedigree, Dim ProspectsCreated by Lost’s J.J. Abrams, this new NBC show about a world without electricity needs to turn on its bright lights if it hopes to survive.
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    Seitz: Guys With Kids Is Charming Pro-Bro PropagandaThis new NBC sitcom isn’t terribly interested in the kids, which is a good thing.
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    Seitz: Sons of Anarchy Is Quality TV That Makes You Root for the MonstersThe show, which premieres its fifth season tonight, is grindhouse plus art house.
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    Seitz: The New Normal Is Modern Family LiteThe show has a faux-naughtiness, dipping its big toe in taboo, then rinsing it with progressive messages.
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    Seitz on Copper: Ambitious and Tedious The post-Civil War drama is a well-meaning botch.
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    Seitz: The Over-the-Top Boss Still Makes Real Politics Look RationalSeason One was anything but subtle, and Two doubles down on its Boss-iness.
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    Seitz on NBC’s Animal Practice: More Monkey, PleaseThe show’s star doctor is the umpteenth variation on Hugh Laurie’s House.
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    Seitz on Discovery’s Shark Week: Schizoid and IrresistibleHas there ever been a more effective merger of science and sensationalism?
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    TV Review: Season Two of Hell on WheelsThe AMC western is currently No. 1 on TV critic Matt Zoller Seitz’s list of Not Quite There shows.
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    TV Review: NBC’s Go OnThis new show takes the universal experience of catastrophic loss, and shellacks it with counterfeit raucousness, poignancy, and uplift.
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    TV Review: Sigourney Weaver Can’t Save the Mediocre Political Animals “A domestically oriented, C+ version of The West Wing.”
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    TV Review: NY Med Is Reality TV Done RightSet in and around New York-Presbyterian Hospital, this eight-part nonfiction series follows a bunch of doctors and nurses as they do their jobs. Simple.
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    Seitz: A TV Show’s Second Season Is As Important As Its First — Maybe More SoOur TV critic looks at the second seasons of Wilfred and Falling Skies.
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    TV Review: Anger Management and LouieFX’s decision to place the two shows on the same night is like hanging a Degas next to a Dumpster.
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    TV Review: Sorkin’s The Newsroom — Corny, But InspiringSorkin’s a common-man idealist who wouldn’t know “cool” if it ran him over with a truck.
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    TV Review: Old Faces Outshine the New on TNT’s Dallas RebootLarry Hagman is as ferocious as ever. Unfortunately, the rest of the show is a snooze.
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    TV Review: HBO’s Hemingway & Gellhorn Is Silly and Smart Director Philip Kaufman’s biopic of the writer and his third wife is simultaneously stirring and ridiculous.
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    TV Review: The Impenetrable King of Late NightJohnny Carson gets the American Masters treatment tonight on PBS.
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    TV Review: Sherlock’s Joys Are Far From ElementaryThe second season of Masterpiece Mystery!’s Sherlock debuts this Sunday.
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    Seitz: Community Is TV’s Most Ambitious ShowOne part of the definition of a great TV show is “the continual possibility of surprise.”
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    Matt Zoller Seitz Reviews VeepJulia Louis-Dreyfus stars as the slightly loopy vice-president.
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    TV Review: Girls Is True to Life, If Not RealityLena Dunham finds truth in her characters and setting, whether you personally approve of them or not. 
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    TV Review: NYC 22 Has Fresh Characters in a Stale PackageLeelee Sobieski and Adam Goldberg star in this new CBS cop show.
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    Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23 Is an Intriguing Balance of Sweetness and SleazeThe ancient TV trope of the mismatched roommates gets yet another update in this new ABC sitcom.
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    TV Review: Magic City Has Style to Spare and Not Much MoreAn altogether depressing combination of brilliant production values and subpar drama.
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    TV Review: Scandal, or the Show As Bag of Potato ChipsShonda Rhimes’s new show is so crazy, it makes Revenge look measured.
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    TV Review: Best Friends Forever Has PotentialI started out loathing the pilot and ended up liking it. This is a good sign.
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    TV Review: Game of Thrones Season Two Is Artful and AdultGame of Thrones is doing for sword-and-sorcery what the remake of Battlestar Galactica did for science fiction: foregrounding its mythic power.
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    TV Review: The Killing Hasn’t Solved Its Own Problems, Let Alone the CaseThe procedural still plays like CBS crime-show hackwork wrapped in art-house pretension.
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    Seitz: How The Walking Dead Saved Itself From Complete FailureThe paper-thin protagonists and brutal dialogue stuck around, but something changed in the back end of season two.
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    TV Review: ABC’s Shameless, Overserious Missing Feels UnsustainableAshley Judd’s ludicrous, dark parental fantasy begins tonight.
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    Game Change, Sarah Palin, and the Limits of CompetenceSarah Palin herself is a triumph of style and a failure of substance; Game Change, the reverse.
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    Awake Demands Your AttentionThis is not the kind of drama you can half-watch while posting on Facebook or folding laundry. It’s puzzle-as-spectacle, and it asks you to commit.
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    Seitz on Why, After 500 Episodes, Slagging The Simpsons Is UnfairIt did everything first, so excuse it for not reinventing television for 23 years straight.
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  44. TV Review: ABC’s The River Is Too Much GimmickIt doesn’t use its found-footage format well.
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    Smash Review: Performance AnxietyThe musical numbers on NBC’s Broadway drama Smash are dazzling — and way too short.
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    TV Review: The Sexy, Gory, Low-Rent Spectacle of Spartacus: VengeanceIt returns with a new leading man, and it’s still pretty fun.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    TV Review: Fox’s Metaphysical Touch, Likable But DumbEven when a story makes a point of telling you that it’s about coincidence, it’s still possible to have too much of it.
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    TV Review: The Engrossing, Surprising Southland ReturnsSouthland takes on subjects that most shows get wrong, but  does it right.
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    TV Review: Justified’s Raylan Loses a Step, and the Show Gains OneAfter being shot last year, Raylan isn’t the quick draw and quick mind he once was.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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    Seitz: The Failures, Successes, Possibilities, and Danger Signs of Hell on WheelsGiving the Western a second chance, our critic found something to like … and some things he prays they don’t continue in season two.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
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