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  'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: Mr. Thompson Goes to Washington | ARTICLE

  It's either too much or not enough when it comes to Boardwalk Empire this season. Last week's episode satiated our appetites for both narrative drama and character presence following the dearth of excitement in "Blue Bell...

  October 21, 2012 10:05 PM ET
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  'Boardwalk Empire' Q&A: Meg Chambers Steedle on Playing Nucky's Mistress | ARTICLE

  She first made a splash as a Cleopatra-wigged New Year's guest, shimmying her way through a rendition of "Old King Tut" – and eventually out of her dress and into Nucky Thompson's (Steve Buscemi) bed in the...

  October 16, 2012 8:00 AM ET
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  'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: Performance Anxiety | ARTICLE

  I freely admit I've been waffling on the subject of whether or not Nucky is in love with Billie, but considering he poured more energy into saving his mistress' clunker of a show than keeping his suffering...

  October 14, 2012 10:05 PM ET
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  Q&A: 'Nashville' Actress Connie Britton on Her New Superstar Role | ARTICLE

  First Glee took on pop songs. Then Smash tackled show tunes. Starting Wednesday night, country music gets the TV treatment with the premiere of Nashville. Soundtracked by a rollicking playlist courtesy...

  October 10, 2012 9:00 AM ET
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  'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: Who's Minding the Store? | ARTICLE

  It's always difficult to criticize a series I have a deep affinity for, but "Blue Bell Boy" was a weak, if not altogether dull episode. Hell, even Sesame Street's four-minute parody "Birdwalk Empire" was more entertaining....

  October 7, 2012 10:05 PM ET
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  'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: Firestarter | ARTICLE

  There's only so much you can cram into an hour of television, and given that Eli's and Chalky's reintroductions got bumped to the second episode, it's not entirely astonishing that Nucky's nightmares over Jimmy's death didn't spring...

  September 30, 2012 10:05 PM ET
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  'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: Roadblock | ARTICLE

  "Phone's ringin', Nuck." On the one hand, I can't blame Nucky for shutting out the world whenever he's with Billie Kent. She is so adorably enchanting that even Margaret's savvy banter may not be able to compete with...

  September 23, 2012 10:05 PM ET
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  Q&A: 'Boardwalk Empire's' Kelly Macdonald on Margaret's Independent Streak | ARTICLE

  The rags-to-riches journey of Margaret Thompson (formerly Schroeder) is one of the more captivating plot lines of Boardwalk Empire. At the end of the HBO Probihition-era drama's second season, she had just married Atlantic City political boss...

  September 18, 2012 8:00 AM ET
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  'Boardwalk Empire' Premiere Recap: Gangster's Paradise | ARTICLE

  Don't let the lavish, gold-tinted New Year's Eve party fool you. Things are going to be very dark this season on Boardwalk Empire. Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, from his first appearance in "Resolution," has fulfilled his fallen protégé...

  September 16, 2012 10:05 PM ET
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  'True Blood' Season Finale Recap: The Rapture | ARTICLE

  We knew it would be tough topping Tara getting shot in the head, but the True Blood writers have done it again, with last night's season finale supporting Sam Trammell's claim that this was...

  August 27, 2012 9:05 AM ET
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  Q&A: 'True Blood' Star Sam Trammell Teases Season Finale Cliffhanger | ARTICLE

  When is Sam Merlotte ever going to catch a break? Over the past five seasons of True Blood, the moral compass of Bon Temps, Louisiana, has played hero to Sookie Stackhouse multiple times, dodged a vengeful maenad,...

  August 24, 2012 8:00 AM ET
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  'True Blood' Recap: Game Time | ARTICLE

  Hope you've shed your tears over Hoyt's departure, because there's no more time for brooding. The bloody mayhem that has been brewing all season arrives next week, and given the events of "Sunset," it's now every human,...

  August 20, 2012 10:15 AM ET
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  Q&A: 'True Blood' Actor Todd Lowe on the Importance of Playing a Human | ARTICLE

  After spending much of True Blood on the periphery of the major plot lines, Todd Lowe has found himself at the center of his own dramatic story arc this season. Flashbacks revealed that during his tour of...

  August 7, 2012 10:00 AM ET
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  'True Blood' Recap: Haters Gonna Hate | ARTICLE

  The vampires took a backseat in "Everybody Wants to Rule the World," no doubt because the drama in the three episodes remaining this season will center around the imminent war between the species. "Rule...

  August 6, 2012 10:20 AM ET
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  'True Blood' Recap: Sweet Child O' Mine | ARTICLE

  Compared to the plot-heavy, WTF?-moment-packed episode last week, it's not surprising that "Somebody That I Used to Know" was a bit of a letdown. And it's not even director Stephen Moyer's...

  July 30, 2012 7:48 AM ET
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  'True Blood' Star Deborah Ann Woll: No Longer a Baby Vamp | ARTICLE

  Eternally 17-year-old vampire Jessica Hamby has had quite the wild ride in this season of True Blood. She's been luxuriating in maker Bill Compton's wealth while he's off doing the Authority's (and now, Lilith's) bidding and indulged...

  July 26, 2012 1:50 PM ET
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  'True Blood' Recap: Human Nature | ARTICLE

  The True Blood writers sure do know how their audience thinks. Many of us weren't so quick to accept Roman's demise in last week's episode, solely because we never actually saw him disintegrate into a mound of...

  July 23, 2012 9:45 AM ET
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  Q&A: 'True Blood' Star Rutina Wesley on Tara's Vampire Transformation | ARTICLE

  Sookie Stackhouse's tough-as-nails BFF, Tara Thornton, has spent the past four seasons of True Blood suffering the abuses of an alcoholic mother, a possessive maenad, a sociopathic vampire and a power-hungry witch. At the start of the...

  July 23, 2012 7:00 AM ET
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  'True Blood' Recap: Religious Debate | ARTICLE

  Oh, Russell, how we've missed you. It says something about the dark, twisted nature of True Blood when the most dangerous, psychopathic character is also the one who makes the most sense. The drawling former vampire king has...

  July 16, 2012 10:05 AM ET
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  'True Blood' Recap: The Lunatic Takes Over the Asylum | ARTICLE

  Poor Alcide. He starts off the episode with Sookie's legs wrapped around his perfect, non-Photoshopped physique, only to end in a spooky, abandoned asylum pulled away from his friends by an unseen force. Will Sookie and the...

  July 9, 2012 9:45 AM ET