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Slate Magazine - Television - 5 hours ago
Geography being destiny, those preoccupied with the plight of the sanguivorous undead should perk up at the sight True Blood (HBO, Sundays at 9 p.m. ET). Too often have vampires been stranded in drafty castles, set …
Slate Magazine - Television - Sep 3, 2008
Her politics combine an outdoorsy libertarian bent with rigorous fundamentalism in a way that happens to creep me out, and yet I must concede that Madame Governor Palin makes a charming first impression. The key is her …
Slate Magazine - Sep 2, 2008
She's pretty great on television. [more ...]
Slate Magazine - Television - Sep 1, 2008
Around 10 a.m. ET on Monday, CNN meteorologist Chad Myers announced that the city of Houma, not New Orleans, would be getting the brunt of Hurricane Gustav's wind and rain. On the other side of the screen, a …
Slate Magazine - Television - Sep 1, 2008
To repeat one of the most pressing questions of our era: Who is Gossip Girl (the CW, Mondays at 9 p.m. ET)? People who like TV but do not watch Josh Schwarz's teensploitation soap (that is, most people) know her as a …
Slate Magazine - Aug 27, 2008
Maureen Dowd and Frank Rich last shared a byline in the summer of 1992, a time when it was novel to report on the party conventions as scripted spectacle. "Meticulous Kabuki dramas," they called them—a notion now so …
Slate Magazine - Television - Aug 5, 2008
The most dynamic subgenre of reality television is the caste-climbing makeover competition, and its essential text is Ladette to Lady, canceled this year after three delightful seasons on the U.K.'s ITV. The program …
Slate Magazine - Television - Aug 1, 2008
The most striking visual element of Pam: Girl on the Loose (E!, Sundays at 10 p.m. ET)—setting aside the pinup figure of Pamela Anderson, itself a major work of contemporary popular art—is the texture of the light. The …
Slate Magazine - Television - Jul 31, 2008
The great joke about the original movies on Lifetime, the grande dame of gynocentric cable channels, is that they present unvarying visions of women as victims—pap weepies about cancer and kidnapping or plump …
Slate Magazine - Television - Jul 25, 2008
Evelyn Waugh is the greatest comic novelist of the last 100 years, and if you somehow dispute this fact, there is simply nothing to be done for you but a period of house arrest. One or another reputable online …