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The Year in Review: Daniel defends the indefensible
2007 was a wacky television year. How wacky was it? After calling for a mandatory boycott of AMC several years ago -- something about their pan-and-scan butchery of movies and their callous disregard for the word "classic" -- I was forced to crawl back to the network for Mad Men, perhaps the season's finest new scripted drama.
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The Year in Review: What Rick hasn't forgotten
Weird year, 2007. It began with the public immolation of Grey's Anatomy star Isaiah Washington and ended with the possible immolation of TV as we know it. In between came the greatest fade to black of all time, the twee-est TV show ever to earn a full-season pickup and all kinds of really good (and some really bad) television.
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'The Sopranos' finale: Fade to black
This is what I'm taking away from the finale of The Sopranos, which no matter what you think about how it ended is one of the great achievements in television history:
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