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Firewall & Iceberg Podcast, episode 151: 'Last Resort,' 'Elementary,' 'Homeland,' 'Dexter' & more

Dan and Alan also review 'Made in Jersey' and '666 Park Avenue'

By Alan Sepinwall Thursday, Sep 27, 2012 3:30 PM

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The TV season is (still) here! The TV season is (still) here! Premiere week's not over yet, which means it's time for more reviews of new shows, plus thoughts on a couple of notable Showtime dramas — one coming off an Emmy-winning season nearly everyone liked, and one coming off a season almost nobody liked.

The line-up: 

"Last Resort" (00:00:50 - 00:17:35)
"Elementary" (00:17:35 - 00:28:00)
"Made in Jersey" (00:28:00 - 00:39:00)
"666 Park Avenue" (00:39:00 - 00:46:05)
"Dexter" (00:46:10 - 00:58:15)
"Homeland" (00:58:15 - 01:12:40)
 
As always, you can subscribe to The Firewall & Iceberg Podcast over at the iTunes Store, where you can also rate us and comment on us. Or you can always follow our RSS Feed, download the MP3 file or stream it on Dan's blog.
 
And as always, feel free to e-mail us questions for the podcast.
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Alan Sepinwall has been reviewing television since the mid-'90s, first for Tony Soprano's hometown paper, The Star-Ledger, and now for HitFix. His new book, "The Revolution Was Televised," about the last 15 years of TV drama, is for sale at Amazon. He can be reached at sepinwall@hitfix.com
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    chuchundra

    I was ready to write of Dexter forever. Thanks a lot, guys.

    Just when I thought I was out...

    September 27, 2012 at 7:00PM EST Reply to Comment
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      Eric I had the same thought when I first saw the trailer for this season of "Dexter." It looked like a huge improvement for a show that's been foundering for two seasons or more. Glad to hear it really is worth watching begin, because I was basically ready to bail.

      September 28, 2012 at 12:18PM EST
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    madmeme

    Seven "fantastic" seasons of The Shield? Uh... no. Talk about spinning the wheels...

    September 27, 2012 at 7:20PM EST Reply to Comment
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      sepinwall Every time I felt the show was coming remotely in danger of that happening, they would introduce some new character (Margos, Antwon, Kavanaugh) or situation (Lem) that livened things up again. I can name a few bad episodes of The Shield, but that's a show that I don't think had a bad season.

      September 27, 2012 at 7:42PM EST
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      madmeme Well, while I would agree that there wasn't a bad season of The Shield, there's a lot of territory between 'bad' and 'fantastic' and I think at least a couple of the seasons somewhere inbetween.

      September 28, 2012 at 5:18AM EST
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      Gordon Harries Honestly, I think the first season of The Shield was 'soft' (perfectly acceptable as it was finding it's feet) but after that I think it's solid all the way through. Sometimes it's excllent, sometimes less so, but never awful.

      I also think it plays better on DVD, particually after season 5 where on a week-to-week basis it was pure misery..

      September 29, 2012 at 4:12AM EST
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    bearcouch

    This is big news for me if you guys think the new episodes of Dexter are good. Really great to hear. Past two seasons I've completely written off.

    It's funny that last season in the Dexter SA thread someone said that these last two seasons were going to be amazing and it's just the writing staff pulling off the greatest troll of its fans ever.

    September 27, 2012 at 7:36PM EST Reply to Comment
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    odessasteps

    I hope next show, you guys can find time to talk about 2 TV related article this week:

    David Simon writing about the Orioles in Sports Illustrated

    the great Oral History of Cheers on the GQ website

    September 27, 2012 at 10:21PM EST Reply to Comment
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    DB Cooper

    For all the crabbing about not comparing Elementary to Sherlock, the former opens with a "#sherlock" hashtag bug on screen.

    Talk about asking for it.

    September 28, 2012 at 10:30PM EST Reply to Comment

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