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One of the more difficult and most rewarding of HBO series, Treme has a couple of things in common with The Wire. First, the Emmys ignore them both. Second… um, what was that second thing? I forget. Can somebody else help start the argument? ...

The handful of reviews for HBO’s Hemingway & Gellhorn (premiering tonight) are all over the map. The Wall Street Journal says it’s “rich and impressively ambitious.” Nothing in this film speaks for its mastery more decisively than its depiction of that war. Given all the time and detail lavished on that depiction, it’s clear that the...

HBO rolls out the best trailer yet for Aaron Sorkin’s Newsroom, and gives us the first look at what to expect from the 5th season of True Blood, after the cut. ...

Sbowcased on Game of Thrones premiere weekend, HBO drops the first trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s new series, Newsroom. The series chronicles the behind-the-scenes events at a fictional cable news channel and features an ensemble cast that includes Jeff Daniels as an anchor, who, together with his staff set out to put on a news show “in the face of corporate and...

Pretty flippin’ good, you betcha. ...