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RYAN STEWART
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The 10 TV premieres to DVR this fall
Last Resort, The Mindy Project, American Horror Story, and more
With new projects from Andre Braugher, Mindy Kaling, Michael Chiklis, and, uh, Lucy Liu?
By:
RYAN STEWART
| September 19, 2012
Interview: Andre Braugher talks about ABC's ''Last Resort''
Full speed ahead
Mention the name Andre Braugher to any fan of serious television over the age of 30, and you're likely to get a reverential reaction.
By:
RYAN STEWART
| September 25, 2012
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Kurdish Twist
I was a teenage ride-operator
"Today, you're going to the Diminutive Dinos."
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RYAN STEWART
| July 27, 2012
Review: The Newsroom
All in the family: Sorkin does Sorkin in 'The Newsroom'
The Newsroom is a dose of concentrated Sorkin, by turns maddening and exhilarating.
By:
RYAN STEWART
| June 20, 2012
HBO's Veep needs more mean
Soft serve
Reality, right now, is so absurd that almost everyone has already adopted a "laugh-to-keep-from-crying" approach to the news. We don't need someone to tell us how truly horrifying our political landscape is. So what's a satirist to do?
By:
RYAN STEWART
| April 23, 2012
Not much 'magic' on Starz's new drama
City of blahs
Premium networks play by different rules from the rest of television, but Starz has taken things to a new extreme: they've twice renewed shows before episode one even aired.
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RYAN STEWART
| April 05, 2012
Review: House of Lies
House of Lies and Shameless's heroes could be less anti-
In a television landscape dominated by protagonists who are murderers, drug kingpins, serial philanderers, and other assorted life-ruiners, Showtime may have finally gone too far.
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RYAN STEWART
| January 05, 2012
Interview: Talking The Wire with Robert F. Chew
A bold Proposition
Like many cast members on HBO's The Wire, Robert F. Chew is originally from Baltimore and therefore has firsthand experience with much of the urban decay the show depicts.
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RYAN STEWART
| October 12, 2011
Breaking Bad keeps topping itself
This meth we're in
In this age of Hollywood business dealings breathlessly tweeted within minutes of their consummation, passersby cell phone set photos that reveal major plot points, leaked scripts and leaked episodes, Vince Gilligan has accomplished something rare indeed.
By:
RYAN STEWART
| October 05, 2011
The 10 TV premieres that’ll have you glued to the tube this fall
From “American Horror Story” to “X-Factor,” a TV tip sheet
Here are the highlights of this year's autumn TV contenders.
By:
RYAN STEWART
| September 14, 2011
Review: Wilfred
Good dog
It's hard to say what's more surprising about Wilfred , FX's new comedy — adapted from an Australian series — about a depressed ex-lawyer (Elijah Wood) and his friend Wilfred, who he thinks is a man in a dog suit but who is, in actuality, a dog. Is it that the show exists at all, or that it's actually pretty good?
By:
RYAN STEWART
| June 28, 2011
EMA | Past Life Martyred Saints
Souterrain Transmissions (2011)
This hasn't been a bad year for music, but there haven't been a lot of songs that hit in such a way that there's a physical need to hear them again — immediately. But Past Life Martyred Saints, the solo debut from former Gowns frontlady Erika M. Andersen, conveniently shortened to EMA and pronounced in acronym-form, does have such a song.
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RYAN STEWART
| June 09, 2011
A trek through the Minuteman Trail
The Road More Travelled
Years ago, when I was a completely out-of-shape cycling novice, I had a vague dream of someday riding my bike the entire length of the Minuteman Bike Path — a 10-mile trail that starts in Cambridge, winds through Arlington and Lexington, and ends in Bedford.
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RYAN STEWART
| May 09, 2011
Wye Oak | Civilian
Merge (2011)
Very quietly, Wye Oak have put together an impressive run. Not musically quiet, of course — their specialty is massive guitarscapes that seem an impossibility from just a duo.
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RYAN STEWART
| March 31, 2011
The Rural Alberta Advantage | Departing
Saddle Creek (2011)
On their debut, Hometowns, Toronto's Rural Alberta Advantage sounded like a band in search of an identity. It was a bit of a mess, but there were moments when they seemed to be onto something. So surely the improved focus on Departing must be to their benefit, no?
By:
RYAN STEWART
| March 23, 2011
The Shield's Shawn Ryan looks at more cops in The Chicago Code
Oh, the darkness!
The Shield's Shawn Ryan looks at more cops in The Chicago Code
By:
RYAN STEWART
| February 18, 2011
Rich harvest: Parks and Rec reaps a bounty
Rich harvest
On the third season of Parks and Recreation , NBC's hilarious yet ratings-starved ode to small-town civil service, Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) and the rest of the gang at the title department decide to revive the Harvest Festival, a town fair that could attract a lot of attention — and revenue.
By:
RYAN STEWART
| January 11, 2011
Review: Bob's Burgers
Medium rare: Can Bob's Burgers make the cut?
Maybe it's too soon to worry about the fate of Bob's Burgers — Fox's new animated comedy series doesn't even premiere till this Sunday (January 9) at 8:30 pm. But consider Lone Star .
By:
RYAN STEWART
| January 04, 2011
Braids | Native Speaker
Kanine Records (2011)
Kanine Records (2011)
By:
RYAN STEWART
| January 04, 2011
Review: AMC's The Walking Dead
No guts, no glory
There's quite a lot to like about The Walking Dead . That is, if you can make it past the opening sequence.
By:
RYAN STEWART
| October 28, 2010
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