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First episode impressions: ‘Futurama’ Season 7 (TV review)

“Futurama” (9 p.m. Central Wednesdays on Comedy Central) has been around long enough now that it’s starting to contradict its own backstories. Since most “Futurama” fans

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On ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars,’ how in the world is Darth Maul still alive? (TV commentary)

The “Star Wars” saga has a weird tendency to tell stories out of order. Most notably, the film saga started with Episode IV. The books

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First episode impressions: ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ (TV review)

“Napoleon Dynamite,” the 2004 movie, hit a sweet spot of comedy that no previous movie had even aimed for, let alone achieved. Not everyone understood

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Midseason TV preview: The momentum continues? (Commentary)

Fall 2011 served up so many good shows, and so few of them have been canceled, that it’s easy to overlook the midseason premieres. Yet

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Oh my god, they killed Otis! (and thoughts on falls to the dark side) (TV and movie commentary)

Kind of a jerk move by Shane to kill Otis on Sunday’s episode of “The Walking Dead” (8 p.m. Central Sundays on AMC), huh? But also a

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First episode impressions: ‘Beavis and Butt-head’ Season 8 (TV review)

“Beavis and Butt-head” (9 p.m. Central Thursdays on MTV) jumped right into its eighth-season premiere on Thursday with Butt-head’s trademark “Uhhhhh-huh-huh” and Beavis’ iconic “Heh-heh-yeah-yeah-heh.” Fourteen

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Flippin’ sweet! ‘Napoleon Dynamite’ and 10 other shows to watch in 2011-12 (TV commentary)

Intimidated by the list of nearly 50 new shows coming out in the fall? Never fear, I have done the hard work for you of

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Chewbacca and Ahsoka team up in ‘The Clone Wars?’ OK, I’ll buy it (TV commentary)

Long before the prequels started filming, George Lucas announced that R2-D2 and C-3PO would be in all six “Star Wars” films, so we had time

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Top 10 ‘Clone Wars’ characters: No. 1 — Ziro the Hutt

I’ve heard more than one person compare “The Clone Wars” to “The Empire Strikes Back,” basically saying that this is “Star Wars” at its finest.

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Top 10 ‘Clone Wars’ characters: No. 2 — Cad Bane

Every good show has a villainous character that pops up only rarely — say, two or three times a season — and yet always steals

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