- 10/10/11 /
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Breaking Bad Postmortem: Discussing Last Night’s Episode and the Show’s Future
Emily Nussbaum and Logan Hill hash it out.
Emily Nussbaum Archive
- 8/31/11 /
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Novelist Laura Lippman on Her New Book and Morbid Imagination
"I think I’m part of a generation of crime writers, all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we’d chosen this very conservative genre."
- 6/30/11 /
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Why You Should Have Been Watching Treme Instead of The Killing
'The Killing' claims to be a "holistic journey" that doesn't "tie things up in a bow," but 'Treme' really is.
- 4/15/11 /
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Nussbaum on Watching the Original Reality Show, An American Family
The show that inspired HBO's forthcoming 'Cinema Verite.'
- 3/28/11 /
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TV Review: Is United States of Tara the New Dexter?
'Tara' has many of the strengths of 'Dexter,' not so many of its weaknesses.
- 2/25/11 /
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Nussbaum: 30 Rock Takes On the ‘Women in Comedy’ Issue
Unsurprisingly, things got meta.
- 2/18/11 /
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Community’s Chevy Chase Problem
Can the show find a satisfying way to deal with his — and his character's — unlikablity?
- 12/17/10 /
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Nussbaum: An Ode to Cop Rock, TV’s Unsung Procedural (and Glee’s Secret Sauce)
I've always thought back fondly on the 1990 Steven Bochco attempt at a musical procedural. It makes me wonder at the TV experiments we haven't seen yet.
- 12/13/10 /
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Nussbaum: Betrayed by Dexter
Season five of the show had lots of things that made no sense, and, worse, felt exploitative — something I'd rarely thought about the show.
- 12/10/10 /
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Nussbaum: A Wonderful Office Christmas Episode Made Me Fall in Love With the Show All Over Again
Until "Classy Christmas," I'd thought that, with a few exceptions, this season had gone off the rails.