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Emily Nussbaum: “Girls,” “Enlightened,” and the comedy of cruelty.

The HBO series “Girls” has been a trending topic all year, but in one sense it’s nothing new. Created, written, and directed by the twenty-six-year-old Lena Dunham, who plays the wannabe memoirist Hannah Horvath, “Girls” is merely the latest in a . . .

via The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/television/2013/02/11/130211crte_television_nussbaum

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Emily Nussbaum: The power of the cliffhanger.

One of the happiest moments of my life was the night Dr. Kimberly Shaw tore off her wig. It was December, 1992, and my friends and I had been gathering weekly to watch “Melrose Place.” When our favorite character—a red-headed home-wrecker who had seemingly . . .

via The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/television/2012/07/30/120730crte_television_nussbaum