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Crashing Into Analog, Falling Out Of Habits.
How DVDs of "The Big Lebowski" and "Portlandia," filled an internet outage; how books started a rewiring of bad online habits.
 • Tim Goodman
The Observer: "The Audacity" and "Margo's Got Money Troubles."
One of these is a very big surprise.
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Spoilt: "DTF St. Louis," Season Finale, "No One's Normal. It Just Looks Like That From Across the Street."
The Nut Man really loved it.
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Film & TV: Field Notes.
Is Amazon Prime worth it for TV, was hiding "The Drama" spoiler a good idea, and did we really need "Malcolm In the Middle: Life's Still Unfair," among…
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Spoilt: "DTF St. Louis," Ep. 6, "The Denny's Plan."
Beware: A little suburban danger.
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The Observer: Random Sampling Three Series, Joyously Finishing Two Others.
"Privileges," "The Lady" and "Detective Hole" get the early peek while "Bait" and two seasons of "We Are Lady Parts" are in the books.
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Spoilt: "DTF St. Louis," Ep. 5: "Amphezyne."
"That's a lot of wows."
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Film & TV: Field Notes.
"Bait," "Secret Agent," "Sorry, Baby," touting/quitting updates on various series and the Asian and Muslim viewing phases of late.
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Spoilt: "DTF: St. Louis," Ep. 4, "Missouri Mutual Life & Health Insurance."
My thoughts swirl. My bird heart races. For serious.
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"Saturday Night Live UK"
Tina Fey crosses the pond to inaugurate the first British version of "SNL," and now we'll see if it translates.
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The Art of Being Quiet In Film, with "Hamnet," "Train Dreams" and "Sentimental Value."
The Observer falls into a lovely embrace -- whether it's "films for adults" or just a shared emotion with books.
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Spoilt: "DTF: St. Louis," Ep. 3: "The Go Getter."
A mystery builds, a sex bot rises, sweetness prevails and we need to be mindful about being respectful of groceries if we want to B out the B in…
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New: Film & TV: Field Notes.
"Rooster," war exhaustion, "Vigil," Oscars on Sunday, "We Are Lady Parts," seeking relief in light shows, F1 races canceled in Middle East (duh), plus…
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Spoilt: "DTF: St. Louis," Ep. 1 and 2.
The new Steve Conrad series gets our full attention, starting with "Cornhole" and "Snag It" and what it means to have artful dialog.
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Tim Goodman / Bastard Machine
Tim Goodman / Bastard Machine
It's curated TV+Film+Culture from the former Chief TV Critic of The Hollywood Reporter and The San Francisco Chronicle. Writing multiple projects.
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