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Why I don't miss opening themes on broadcast network TV
Eh, I don't miss them.Sure, the themes from The Addams Family, the Beverly Hillbillies/Petticoat Junction/Green Acres shared universe--or as I like to call it, the Hooterverse--and The Fresh Prince of...
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Shows I Miss (Already): Selfie (with guest blogger Adam from Slant Eye for...
There are several things I'm going to miss about the short-lived Selfie, a hashtag-era reimagining of Pygmalion that has been rescued from post-cancellation limbo by Hulu and will finish out on Hulu...
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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: Bob's Burgers, "Dawn of the Peck"
Every Friday in "'Brokedown Merry-Go-Round' Show of the Week," I discuss the week's best first-run animated series episode I saw. This week, due to the holiday weekend, this is being posted on...
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens teaser trailer breakdown
The green screen FX for this scene are extraordinary. Andy Serkis put on an unusual-looking motion-capture suit to do this, and he's really convincing in the role of The Following Preview Has Been...
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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: Bob's Burgers, "Best Burger"
Every Friday in "'Brokedown Merry-Go-Round' Show of the Week," I discuss the week's best first-run animated series episode I saw. "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round," a two-hour block of original score tracks...
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The best anthology show I saw this year first aired three years ago in the U.K.
"Fifteen Million Merits""I love technology, but not as much as you, you see... But I still love technology... Always and forever."--Kip Dynamite's wedding songMy favorite anthology show of the moment...
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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: Bob's Burgers, "Father of the Bob"
Every Friday in "'Brokedown Merry-Go-Round' Show of the Week," I discuss the week's best first-run animated series episode I saw. "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round," a two-hour block of original score tracks...
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The "Yell Log" on AFOS will loop The Ref's out-of-print score album all day...
On Christmas, Lloyd and Caroline Chasseur do not get to yell, but AFOS gets to do so. AFOS will stream the Ref score album by David A. Stewart of both Eurythmics and Lily Was Here theme fame all day...
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Attach the block: Black Mirror: White Christmas imagines a cold future where...
Goddammit, Black Mirror! Why do you have to be so amazing? Black Mirror isn't just the best anthology franchise currently on the air. It also contains some of the craftiest sci-fi storytelling on TV in...
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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Shows of the Year 2014
(Photo source: Reddit)Every Friday in "'Brokedown Merry-Go-Round' Show of the Week," I discuss the week's best first-run animated series episode I saw. It's time to look back at the biggest standouts...
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The Ref, whose score album will be looped on AFOS on Christmas, is the best...
What the shit, Netflix?Even on DVD, director Ted Demme's 1994 Christmastime comedy The Ref--which, even though it was made for only $11 million, flopped at the box office but became a cult favorite...
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Dear White People, whose score can be heard on AFOS, resonates not just for...
In late October, Japan's DJ Muro, whom I remember from the Super Disco Friends mix he assembled with Dimitri from Paris in 2005, put together for Stussy Clothing a mostly terrific Curtis Mayfield mix...
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Throwback Thursday: The Simpsons Movie
Throwback Thursday begins today, the first day of the new year, on the AFOS blog. Every Thursday in 2015, I'll be randomly pulling out from my desk cabinet--with my eyes closed--a movie ticket I saved....
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I don't want to write listicles anymore
Every time I see a numeral followed by a plural noun followed by "That You Didn't Know Were This" in an article hed, I feel like punching a millennial hed writer in the face.It didn't used to be this...
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Throwback Thursday: Captain America: The First Avenger
Every Throwback Thursday, I randomly pull out from my desk cabinet--with my eyes closed--a movie ticket I saved. Then I discuss the movie on the ticket and maybe a little bit of its score, which might...
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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: Bob's Burgers, "Midday Run"
On most Fridays, I discuss the week's best first-run animated series episode I saw. It's the "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week. "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round," a two-hour block of original score...
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Tango uniform November echo India November: "AFOS Incognito" begins...
A spy genre music block made up of score cues from both completely fantastical genre pieces (Mission: Impossible--Ghost Protocol, A View to a Kill) and much more grounded genre pieces that are closer...
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Throwback Thursday: Whiplash
Every Throwback Thursday, I randomly pull out from my desk cabinet--with my eyes closed--a movie ticket I saved. Then I discuss the movie on the ticket and maybe a little bit of its score, which might...
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"Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week: Black Dynamite, "The Wizard of...
On most Fridays, I discuss the week's best first-run animated series episode I saw. It's the "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round" Show of the Week. "Brokedown Merry-Go-Round," a two-hour block of original score...
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"The Whitest Block Ever" on AFOS is being renamed "Color Box"
The annual Oscar luncheon attended by all the acting nominees will be so white this year the menu will experience an 80 percent increase in mayonnaise. (Photo source: YOMYOMF)The AFOS weekday morning...
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