Top 10 Seriously Good TV Blogs
"Good TV" used to be an oxymoron, but now quality shows are popping up everywhere, regardless of whether they're drama or comedy, "reality" or news. These blogs find the best shows and summarize them, helping you see things you might have missed the first time around as well as finding new favorites.
With a tagline like "spare the snark, spoil the networks," expect some unforgiving critiques of your favorite shows from Bravo's TV blog. The lengthy, thoughtful episode recaps, user-generated episode ratings, and clean layout are just icing on the cake.
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Primetime in No Time host Frank Nicotero provides a video wrap-up of the previous day's TV highs and lows plus a bit of written commentary. Especially handy if your office-mates expect you to know how bad the hair was on Dancing with the Stars last night.
Overnight reviews of a wide range of shows, including dramas, reality TV and late-night talk shows. Feature stories cover which Mad Men characters are in limbo and urban legends about how certain TV series came to be.
Chicago Tribune critic Maureen Ryan bridges the gap between pure-recap blogs and industry-news blogs by interacting with actors, actresses and others involved in the shows. The key is that she doesn't discuss shows as business propositions for their owners so much as figure out whether they make sense on their own. An enjoyable read.
Sarah Kelber at the Baltimore Sun bravely tracks reality TV so you don't have to. Covers your favorites in detail, from the fight over Laura's canteen on Survivor: Samoa to The Biggest Loser's workout at the Washington Monument in D.C..
David Bianculli and guest bloggers such as Diane Holloway and Tom Brinkmoeller serve up unusually thoughtful pieces about TV that interests them, whether that's the season finale of Mad Men or the new season of Nature, with its charismatic Rocky Mountain wild horses.
Episode recaps on the front page, but there's industry news, ratings, gossip and more if you want them. Lively comments by readers keep the conversation fresh.
The answer to the question this blog's name asks is "Everything." Newark Star Ledger columnist Alan Sepinwall writes energetically about all the TV worth watching.
Recaps and analysis with a bit of industry news--but as with Maureen Ryan's The Watcher, this blog is concerned whether a show works, not with who's doing what to whom over at the studio.
San Francisco Chronicle reviewer Tim Goodman lets loose with recaps as well as Power Rankings--his arbitrary but entertaining ratings of the top 15 shows and whether they're soaring or tanking lately.
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