Nussbaum’s Conversation with David MillsThe longtime David Simon collaborator recently died after an aneurysm while filming a scene at Cafe du Monde. What follows are excerpts from an interview conducted just two months before his death.
Pugnacious DDavid Simon hates being pegged as angry, but it’s his fury—and passion and empathy—that made The Wire into such transcendent TV. Now, w […]
Lost: Vice PrincipalI enjoyed this episode so much I couldn’t even obsess about the still-looming issue that the show has become a chess game between two coy, superpowered smirkers.
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Lost Recap: Tortured Logic’Lost’ becomes ‘The Stand,’ with characters aligning with Good and Evil, Jacob and Smokey, Salon and Slate.
Lost: What Grows InsideThis episode suggests a mystical explanation for this recapper’s fall from faith: There is a darkness growing in me and once it reaches my heart, I may not be the fan I once was.
An Almost Lurid PastJohn Lithgow on playing a gossip columnist—and on his own close call with scandal.
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Gail Collins, Buffyologist SupremeLast month Emily Nussbaum wrote a profile of one of her heroes, Gail Collins, the op-ed columnist for the ‘Times.’ And she was a true Buffy freak.
Husbands and WivesFamily values get upended (and sometimes obliterated) on four smart shows.
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The Best TV of 2009Mad Men is the clear winner. The next nine excellent shows are harder for Emily Nussbaum to rank.
5. Because Gail Collins Has Some PerspectiveIt has been a noisy year: Albany imploding, congressmen heckling the president, teabaggers with bullhorns. In such a din, it’s a surprise anyone […]
The Stick ListNew York’s critics pick the television programs, books, movies, art, architecture, plays, and pop albums that we’ll still be talking ab […]
