http://www.salon.com/rss/re_viewed.rss Stories from Salon.com's Re-viewed Special Feature. en_US Copyright 2009, Salon.com http://www.salon.com/rss/re_viewed.rss Louis Bayard Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:15:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/08/12/wild_wild_west/index.html http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/08/12/wild_wild_west/index.html http://letters.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/08/12/wild_wild_west/view/?source=rss&aim=re_viewed The 1960s' gayest show Thomas Rogers Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:30:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/07/29/shameless/index.html http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/07/29/shameless/index.html http://letters.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/07/29/shameless/view/?source=rss&aim=re_viewed Television without shame Farhad Manjoo Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:40:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/07/22/macgyver/index.html http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/07/22/macgyver/index.html http://letters.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/07/22/macgyver/view/?source=rss&aim=re_viewed "MacGyver," our mulleted, Midwestern hero gets himself trapped inside a top-secret research bunker overflowing with sulfuric acid. Suffice it to say, he needs to find a way out, and probably soon (because government agents are fixing to fire a missile at the bunker to prevent the acid from spilling into a nearby aquifer). Plus, he has to save the people he has found inside (among them a gun-wielding climate scientist who wants destroy the bunker in an effort to set back research into an ozone-layer-ruining weapon of mass destruction). Fortunately, MacGyver has a few chocolate bars, a scrap of sodium metal, a cold capsule, a pair of binoculars and cigarettes. ]]> The thinking man's action hero Thomas Rogers Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:00:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/07/01/newsroom/index.html http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/07/01/newsroom/index.html http://letters.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/07/01/newsroom/view/?source=rss&aim=re_viewed anchor firings, "terrorist fist bumps," late-night Central Park meth busts: You'd think that a TV show set in a newsroom would write itself. But American television has been strangely lacking in scripted shows about the nightly news. Thank goodness for Canada, because in the mid-'90s and the early part of this decade, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. aired "The Newsroom," probably the best and funniest television show ever made about the news business -- and the perfect highbrow satirical payback for people who are tired of listening to Fox News talking heads. ]]> Good night and good TV Megan Doll Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:45:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/06/03/city_of_men/index.html http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/06/03/city_of_men/index.html http://letters.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/06/03/city_of_men/view/?source=rss&aim=re_viewed Fernando Meirelles' stunning, ultraviolent 2002 film about life in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, was received with ambivalence in Meirelles' native Brazil. Despite the critical acclaim, record revenues and Oscar recognition, detractors argued that by focusing on Rio's gangsters and drug abusers, Meirelles had reinforced middle-class stereotypes of the poor. ]]> City kids Louis Bayard Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:00:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/04/29/perry_mason/index.html http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/04/29/perry_mason/index.html http://letters.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/04/29/perry_mason/view/?source=rss&aim=re_viewed Legal appeal Molly Eichel Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:00:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/04/15/alan_partridge/index.html http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/04/15/alan_partridge/index.html http://letters.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/04/15/alan_partridge/view/?source=rss&aim=re_viewed Meet Britain's Stephen Colbert Stephanie Zacharek Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:30:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/04/08/mod_squad/index.html http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/04/08/mod_squad/index.html http://letters.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/04/08/mod_squad/view/?source=rss&aim=re_viewed is pretty silly) or by the Jimi Hendrix-lite neckerchiefs and flared pants worn by the guys (which don't look all that strange today, at least if you live just a neighborhood or two away from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, as I do). ]]> Mod about you Rebecca Traister Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:00:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/04/01/clatterford/index.html http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/04/01/clatterford/index.html http://letters.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/04/01/clatterford/view/?source=rss&aim=re_viewed "Absolutely Fabulous," and have you ever briefly wished that that storied show about an excess of British femininity had included more scenes in which Patsy and Edina ride tractors? ]]> "Ab Fab" ... in church! Kerry Lauerman Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:40:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/03/18/profit/index.html http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/03/18/profit/index.html http://letters.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/03/18/profit/view/?source=rss&aim=re_viewed The lost "Profit" Amy Reiter Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:00:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/03/11/love_american_style/index.html http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/03/11/love_american_style/index.html http://letters.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/03/11/love_american_style/view/?source=rss&aim=re_viewed Sex, '70s style Laura Miller Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:20:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/03/04/state_of_play/index.html http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/03/04/state_of_play/index.html http://letters.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/03/04/state_of_play/view/?source=rss&aim=re_viewed Stop the presses! Sarah Hepola Tue, 19 Feb 2008 04:00:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/02/19/krofft/index.html http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/02/19/krofft/index.html http://letters.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/02/19/krofft/view/?source=rss&aim=re_viewed Narnia in neon Erin Renzas Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:50:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/02/12/st_elsewhere/index.html http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/02/12/st_elsewhere/index.html http://letters.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/02/12/st_elsewhere/view/?source=rss&aim=re_viewed Dr. Gregory House and his Scooby troop of young diagnosticians burst onto the scene, Sherlock Holmes-ing their way through the world of strange and stranger medical conditions; before the gang at Seattle Grace and McDreamy and McSteamy and George admitted their first patients and before we were all forced to wonder if Dr. Izzie Stevens was ever going to emerge from her post-Denny funk; and even before the mayhem of County General Hospital, there was a little place called "St. Elsewhere." ]]> The cure for lame TV Rebecca Traister Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:10:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/02/05/undeclared/index.html http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/02/05/undeclared/index.html http://letters.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/02/05/undeclared/view/?source=rss&aim=re_viewed "Knocked Up" and "Superbad," should consider unearthing "Undeclared," his short-lived 2001 sitcom about the highs and humiliations of college life. ]]> Remember freshman year? Laura Miller Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:00:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/01/29/slings/index.html http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/01/29/slings/index.html http://letters.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2008/01/29/slings/view/?source=rss&aim=re_viewed Bad theater, good TV