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• Castaway The pointless nostalgia of The Real Gilligan's Island.
  Dana Stevens Dec. 16, 2004
  
• I Love the '80s Barbara Walters' special was a throwback to a decade when greed was good.
  Dana Stevens Dec. 10, 2004
  
• Point Blank HBO's The Life and Death of Peter Sellers is as empty as it claims its protagonist was.
  Dana Stevens Dec. 3, 2004
  
• Telling It Slant Dan Rather's retirement opens a new era of TV journalism.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 24, 2004
  
• Virginity Lost When it comes to sex on teen dramas, father doesn't always know best.
  Kate Aurthur Nov. 23, 2004
  
• The Weight Reality television is deeply ambivalent toward excess flesh.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 22, 2004
  
• The Thinker In Huff, Showtime's new drama, Hank Azaria plays an overly introspective shrink.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 5, 2004
  
• Log Splitting In Trio's Gay Republicans, the Log Cabiners fracture over supporting Bush.
  Dana Stevens Nov. 2, 2004
  
• Literary Lionesses The WB's Gilmore Girls is the most bookish show on television.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 26, 2004
  
• Uncivil War Stolen Honor rewrites the history of the Vietnam War.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 21, 2004
  
• The Good Wife According to Desperate Housewives,most women lead lives of quiet desperation.
  Dana Stevens Oct. 4, 2004
  
• The Kelley Curse Will Boston Legal fail the way David E. Kelley's other shows have?
  Dana Stevens Oct. 1, 2004
  
• Girls Just Wanna Be Swapped Why post-feminist women enjoy Trading Spouses and Wife Swap.
  Dahlia Lithwick Sept. 30, 2004
  
• Deplaned, Deplaned Lost makes the aftermath of an airplane crash surprisingly dull.
  Dana Stevens Sept. 22, 2004
  
• It's a Guy Thing Who likes Entourage, anyway?
  Dana Stevens Sept. 13, 2004
  
• Laugh Track Pilot Season sends up the sitcom genre itself.
  Dana Stevens Sept. 8, 2004
  
• Court TV ABC's fascinating In the Jury Room deglamorizes the legal process.
  Dana Stevens Aug. 12, 2004
  
• Supersize Me A pair of Trio documentaries take on the outsized personalities (and girths) of the Lone Star State.
  Dana Stevens Aug. 6, 2004
  
• The Motorcycle Diaries TNT's Evel Knievel biopic takes the daredevil's exciting life and makes it boring.
  Dana Stevens July 30, 2004
  
• Not-So-Great White Has Shark Week finally jumped the shark?
  Robert Weintraub July 30, 2004
  
• The Terror Channel As the 9/11 commission speaks, two new shows join the grief parade.
  Dana Stevens July 23, 2004
  
• Circus Sideshow Is Just A Clown Andrew Jarecki's thank-you to David Friedman?
  Dana Stevens July 13, 2004
  
• No Pain, No Gain In Most Extreme Elimination Challenge, Japanese contestants prove that humiliation is the ultimate goal.
  Theresa Duncan July 8, 2004
  
• Clerical Errors A new documentary questions the Catholic Church's views on celibacy.
  Dana Stevens June 28, 2004
  
• No Laughing Matter The Graham Norton Effect is a raunchy, unfunny mess.
  Dana Stevens June 25, 2004
  
• Laughing Out Loud There's nothing understated about Revolution, Margaret Cho's latest.
  Dana Stevens June 18, 2004
  
• The Trial Fox's The Jury is a courtroom drama that explores dramatically uninteresting post-trial deliberations.
  Dana Stevens June 8, 2004
  
• After the Fall Trio's Flops launches a monthlong celebration of Hollywood's great failures.
  Dana Stevens June 4, 2004
  
• Cable Try HBO's Something the Lord Made is the latest made-for-cable movie to showcase great performances in a mediocre film.
  Dana Stevens May 28, 2004
  
• Idol Wild The third season of American Idol was surprising, but not for the reasons you might think.
  Matt Feeney May 27, 2004
  
• Talk Pretty The linguistic brilliance of HBO's Deadwood.
  Matt Feeney May 21, 2004
  
• Historical Fiction Colonial House asks its participants to role-play like it's 1628.
  Dennis Cass May 19, 2004
  
• Memorial Days Scrapbooking shows that one person's junk is another's decoration.
  Dennis Cass May 17, 2004
  
• Where Have All the Grown-Ups Gone? The Frasier finalemarks the end of situation comedies for adults.
  Dana Stevens May 12, 2004
  
• The Rules of the Game Why does Survivor: All-Stars make experienced contestants look like amateurs?
  Dennis Cass May 6, 2004
  
• Adult Entertainment The Fairly OddParents is a cartoon that's smart enough for the 'rents
  Dennis Cass April 30, 2004
  
• Oh, God "The Jesus Factor"asks what's behind the president's religious beliefs.
  Dana Stevens April 29, 2004
  
• Asian Fusion Iron Chef America fails to translate the original's quirky brilliance.
  Dana Stevens April 23, 2004
  
• Fever To Sell IFC's new reality show, Rocked With Gina Gershon, is all PR and no soul.
  Alex Abramovich April 23, 2004
  
• Tune In, Turn On A new documentary about Ram Dass shows him to be more than your average hippie.
  Siân Gibby April 20, 2004
  
• Great Dame In Prime Suspect 6, Helen Mirren proves she's still got it.
  Dana Stevens April 16, 2004
  
• In the Cut According to a new crop of shows, plastic surgery is serious business.
  Dennis Cass April 14, 2004
  
• Potty Mob Why are Sopranos' characters always going to the bathroom?
  Richard B. Woodward April 13, 2004
  
• Venus Envy On VH1's Best Week Ever wannabes make fun of real celebrities.
  Dennis Cass April 9, 2004
  
• Pretty on the Inside NBC's Starting Over takes the pain out of self-actualization.
  Dana Stevens April 9, 2004
  
• Masters of Disillusionment Penn & Teller's show explains why everything you know is wrong.
  Dennis Cass April 1, 2004
  
• American Idol Chatter Why doesn't Simon Cowell understand his own show?
  Matt Feeney March 31, 2004
  
• The Bachelors Why gay men on reality TV can paint bedrooms but aren't allowed to pair-bond.
  Dana Stevens March 24, 2004
  
• Revenge of the Nerds Game Over hides its video-game dorkiness under the guise of a family sitcom.
  Dennis Cass March 19, 2004
  
• Bad Apple On USA's Touching Evil, a cop's wrongs don't get justice right.
  Dennis Cass March 12, 2004
  
• Insignificant Others No bravos for Bravo's new sitcom.
  Dana Stevens March 10, 2004
  
• Black Comedy Why is Dave Chappelle's malice so winning?
  Matt Feeney March 4, 2004
  
• Fallen Star Peter Bogdanovich's Natalie Wood biopic is a standard tale of a tragic Hollywood actress.
  Dana Stevens March 3, 2004
  
• Tattoo You Eye of the Beholder demonstrates that beauty may be only skin-deep.
  Dennis Cass March 1, 2004
  
• Behind the Politics Staffers shows us the blood, sweat, and fast food that make up the 2004 Democratic campaigns.
  Dennis Cass Feb. 24, 2004
  
• Little Women in the City Sex and the City's foursome belongs to a tradition of plucky female heroines.
  Dana Stevens Feb. 23, 2004
  
• Crime and Punishment Why do Sex and the City's producers hate their creations?
  Matt Haber Feb. 20, 2004
  
• The O.C.'s Trojan Horse How a wiseguy beat out a brooding loner.
  Dennis Cass Feb. 19, 2004
  
• An Unreliable Narrative USA's Laci Peterson drama attempts to tell a tale that's still unfolding.
  Dennis Cass Feb. 13, 2004
  
• Fear and Loathing ABC's Threat Matrix is the most terrifying show on television.
  June Thomas Feb. 12, 2004
  
• The Party's Over The rise and fall of Tupperware.
  Amanda Fortini Feb. 10, 2004
  
• I'm With the Bland The Grammy Awards were like a junior-high talent show.
  Dana Stevens Feb. 9, 2004
  
• Blinded by the Right Dennis Miller's new talk show is all about his political conversion.
  Dennis Cass Feb. 6, 2004
  
• Mr. Nice Guy In PBS's Beyond the Color Line, Skip Gates panders to his celebrated interviewees.
  Dana Stevens Feb. 6, 2004
  
• Primary Colors Robert Altman's Tanner '88 exposes the fiction of democracy.
  Dana Stevens Feb. 4, 2004
  
• Choose Your Own Misadventure ToddTV is reality television's first meta-show.
  Dennis Cass Jan. 30, 2004
  
• Creature Feature Is Boohbah the new Teletubbies?
  Dana Stevens Jan. 30, 2004
  
• Traffic Update Does the third incarnation take a different route?
  Alex Abramovich Jan. 26, 2004
  
• Breakfast of Champions Cold Pizza is ESPN's unsuccessful attempt to make sport of the news.
  Dennis Cass Jan. 23, 2004
  
• Going Postal A&E's Between the Lines is a slow-going treat for epistolary geeks.
  Dana Stevens Jan. 20, 2004
  
• Women in Love Showtime's The L Word is Sex and the City about lesbians.
  Dennis Cass Jan. 16, 2004
  
• Terminal Boredom Airline,A&E's new series, doesn't quite take off.
  Dana Stevens Jan. 13, 2004
  
• Dysfunctional Family Values Love and incarceration in Arrested Development.
  Dana Stevens Jan. 7, 2004
  
• Winner Trumps All NBC's The Apprentice features16 strivers who hope to work for The Donald.
  Dennis Cass Jan. 7, 2004
  
• Torture Chamber Fox's 24 terrifies viewers into believing its bizarre and convoluted plot twists.
  Matt Feeney Jan. 6, 2004
  
• Idol Pleasures The surprising outcome of the World Idol competition.
  Dana Stevens Jan. 2, 2004