Latest articles by Kevin Fallon
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Smash: A 'Glee for grown-ups'?
feature After months of relentless hype, NBC finally premieres its ambitious musical drama, and many critics are left cheering for an encore
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Lena Dunham confronts the Girls racism controversy: Is she convincing?
feature The writer and star of HBO's breakout series says it primarily features white characters because that's the only experience she knows. Critics are split on her rationale
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The ill-fated search for the next Glee: A timeline
feature Ever since those final notes of "Don't Stop Believing" in the Glee pilot, rival networks have tried repeatedly to replicate the show's success. Most have failed
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Mad Men without Peggy: Still worth watching?
opinion Rumor has it that Elisabeth Moss, who plays proto-feminist copywriter Peggy Olsen, is leaving the hit AMC drama for good, sending fans and critics into mourning
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Mad Men's quiet finale: A disappointing end to season five?
opinion Critics are split on the moody, choppy final episode of the AMC drama's action-packed season, which leaves Don Draper pondering the question "Are you alone?"
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Forget Mad Men... is Louie TV's best show?
feature Admittedly, many Americans have never seen Louis C.K.'s edgy FX comedy. But the season three premiere has critics insisting that must change
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Glee's 'touching' sex episode
opinion Two teen couples — one of them gay — lose their virginity on the hit Fox series. Was it as controversial as advance hype led us to believe?
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The Artist: Does a dog deserve an Oscar?
feature Man's best friend arguably delivers Hollywood's best performance this year — but Academy rules prevent him from taking home a trophy
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7 reasons Mad Men's season premiere is 'insanely riveting'
feature A long 17 months after its discombobulating season four finale, AMC's drama finally returns Sunday night. Here's why the new episode is worth the wait
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'Zou Bisou Bisou': The scoop on the bizarre French song from the Mad Men premiere
feature Don Draper's new wife performs a competely unexpected burlesque routine, immediately earworming a '60s French song into fans' heads. What was that ditty, anyway?
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Hillary Clinton's 'coolness offensive': 4 highlights
feature Progressives and young Dems go gaga over the Secretary of State as she cheekily declines actor Jason Segel's offer to co-star in his next film, boozes in Cartagena, and more
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Why John Carter flopped: 6 theories
feature The bloated $250 million sci-fi epic tanked at the box office this weekend, grossing a meager $30.6 million and finishing behind The Lorax. What went wrong?
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How March Madness distracts workers: By the numbers
feature Companies could lose up to $175 million in the first two days of the NCAA tournament, as on-the-clock employees obsessively check for game updates
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Has Mad Men's spoiler phobia gone too far?
feature With the long-awaited season premiere airing next week, the show's creator pens a letter to reviewers begging them not to reveal a single plot point
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Did Glee do Whitney Houston's songs justice?
opinion The Fox musical series honored the late music icon by tackling her notoriously hard-to-sing hits, including "How Will I Know" and "I Wanna Dance With Somebody"
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Mad Men: The 'Fat Betty' backlash
feature Fans and critics were stunned by the famously svelte character's drastic weight gain — and they can't stop talking and griping about it
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Jaguar vs. Mad Men: How the company is dealing with the show's unflattering portrayal
feature AMC's drama has built much of its season around a Jaguar plotline — highlighting unreliable vehicles and lecherous car execs — and the automaker is feeling the pain
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'The Choom Gang': 9 juiciest details from Barack Obama's days as a pothead
feature Excerpts from an upcoming biography of the president make some interesting allegations about his innovative toking techniques, shady drug dealer, and more
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Does HBO's Girls actually appeal more to old men?
feature Many fans assume the hit show about female twenty-somethings ropes in an audience of female twenty-somethings. Instead, most viewers look like the characters' dads
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Billy Crystal's Oscar hosting: A 'disaster'?
opinion For his ninth outing as Oscar host, the comedian dredged up his safe, classic bits — underwhelming critics who yearned for an edgier, funnier telecast
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Oscars 2012: Is there any way The Artist could lose?
opinion The black-and-white silent film has been steamrolling through awards season, racking up nearly every trophy enroute to the Academy's Best Picture honor
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Glee's Michael Jackson tribute: 'Unbelievably awful'?
The Explainer New Directions pays homage to the King of Pop, and critics seize the opportunity to quote one of the episode's many Jackson songs: It was "Bad"
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Is HBO's Girls really a 'once in a decade' masterpiece?
feature The gritty new comedy has critics competing for superlatives. Are they crazy — or just excited?
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The 2012 Emmys: Top 5 predictions
feature Perennial, predictable winners like Mad Men and The Daily Show are facing unusually stiff competition — which makes this Sunday's Emmy race the most exciting in years
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