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Was the Last Season of ‘Til Death a Secret Surrealist Masterpiece?

For most of its existence, the Brad Garrett-Joely Fisher sitcom ‘Til Death was more capable of serving as a punchline to someone else’s joke than providing its own. Perpetually low-rated and critically lambasted, yet renewed for four seasons simply so Fox would be able to pair it with other half-hour comedies (or maybe it was out of sheer malice?), most of America stopped watching ‘Til Death before its series finale on Sunday — that is, if they even started watching. Apparently, though, we all missed something kind of insane.

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This Roman Polanski Thing is Going to Go On Forever

Forget pollution, debt, war and all the other miserable legacies passed from American generation to generation. My children’s children will be blogging about Roman Polanski’s legal team stonewalling the director’s extradition. I’m serious! How else are we supposed to take the latest news reports from L.A. and Switzerland?

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30 Rock Puts Will Forte in a Dress

There has been a not-so-quiet bit of backlash surrounding 30 Rock this season, as its status as the funniest show ever has worn off. This is partially NBC’ s fault — and really what isn’t? — since by putting 30 Rock fourth on a schedule of four comedies, they have created a situation where the audience is facing laughter fatigue by the time it airs. But the blame also rests at the feet of Tina Fey. Too often this year, the narrative plotting has been forgotten from episode to episode. Like, remember Jack’s “have to make a decision!” love triangle from last week? Well good, because you were the only one, since the show made nary a mention of this big decision last night. But then Will Forte showed up in drag and all was forgiven.

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