Antenna contributors review the new fall series from everyone's favorite pretend broadcast network.
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Fall Premieres 2013: The CW
Breaking Bad Breakdown: Deserving Denouement
What do we want from a finale? Should it be a spectacular episode that serves as the dramatic peak of the series? Should it like any other episode of the series, only more so? Should it be surprising, shocking, or transformative? Or should it offer closure? For me, the main thing that I’m looking...
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Fall Premieres 2013: CBS
Antenna contributors review the new fall series from America's #1 network in total viewers and—in a change—the key demographic.
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Fall Premieres 2013: NBC
Antenna contributors review the new fall series from the peacock network.
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Breaking Bad Breakdown: Exiling Evil
Dots are connected and characters suffer, setting up what is sure to be a heartwarming series finale.
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Breaking Bad Breakdown: Exploding Emotion
Still recovering from this week's emotional devastation, but Jason Mittell works through the carnage with an extra-long post.
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Breaking Bad Breakdown: Peaking Plot
Walt and Jesse return to where the series began to stage the program's climactic peak.
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Breaking Bad Breakdown: Postponing Progress
The season hits its first speed bump, as characters bide time while looking toward the inevitable confrontation.
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Breaking Bad Breakdown: Title Tricking
This week we get plenty of confessions, but not the ones we might have expected.
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Breaking Bad Breakdown: Digging Down
All of the characters are digging themselves out, and deeper, after last week's confrontation.
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Breaking Bad Breakdown: Fast Forwarding
Breaking Bad returns from almost a year off to reset our timeframes and set-up its endgame.
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Teach Hacks: Creating Clips from DVDs
Extracting clips from DVDs is and will continue to be a crucial skill for media educators and researchers even as cloud and streaming services threaten DVDs; here's how to do it.
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Interview: Alan Sepinwall on writing his TV history
Part one of a two-part interview with TV critic Alan Sepinwall on his popular history of the past fifteen years in television drama.
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Skins: A Primer
Despite Skins' Netflix instant streaming availability in the US, little has been written on the program for American audiences, and I hope this post can serve as a primer as the seventh and final chapter of the series premiered last week.
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On Leaving the Game Early
Miami Heat fans' early exit from game six of the NBA Finals is the latest flashpoint in mediated discussions of Florida this year.
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