Cannes Film Festival 2013

Alan Sepinwall's week off

Time for your local TV critic to take the week off, with a few pre-written exceptions

<p>Hopefully, my family's time off will turn out better than the Simpsons' trip to Itchy & Scratchy Land.</p>

Hopefully, my family's time off will turn out better than the Simpsons' trip to Itchy & Scratchy Land.

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Hey all, it is vacation time, and I'm going to do my best to completely unplug from now until Sunday night, when I'll be back to watch and write about the Oscar telecast.

The blog won't go completely dark while I'm gone, though. I've seen a handful of my regular shows ("Parks and Recreation" and "Community," to name two) in advance already and will be publishing short posts on them to give people a forum to talk about them in my absence. And I'll have one or two longer posts that I wrote last week that will be going up at certain points during the week.

If there's no post on something, it's because I didn't see it in advance, and/or I ran out of time trying to prep things for this vacation. I will not be revisiting anything I missed, as there will be a too many fresh things to write about. So if "Zero Hour" episode 2 turns out to be the show that changed television forever, and I wasn't here to remark upon that, I'm sorry.

Play nice, stay safe, and I'll see you sometime on Sunday night.

Alan-sepinwall-sm
Alan Sepinwall
Sr. Editor, What's Alan Watching
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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    Ben

    Have a great vacation and we'll be here ready for more superb posts when you get back.

    February 18, 2013 at 10:37AM EST Reply to Comment
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    alynch

    Let's burn the place down!

    February 18, 2013 at 10:43AM EST Reply to Comment
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    Hank Scorpio

    I hope you enjoy Sandals Jamaica!

    February 18, 2013 at 12:27PM EST Reply to Comment
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    chuchundra

    You can't leave! All the plants are gonna die!

    February 18, 2013 at 12:51PM EST Reply to Comment
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    Kmarko

    Don't worry, everything will be fine in your absence...nothing can possiblye go wrong.

    February 18, 2013 at 2:06PM EST Reply to Comment
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      Dante Hmm. That's the first thing that's ever gone wrong.

      February 18, 2013 at 8:54PM EST
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    ed w

    Dan should do a podcast with a guest critic so now they will both be caught up in how many episodes they've done. :)

    February 18, 2013 at 3:11PM EST Reply to Comment
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    John

    "Hey mouse, say cheese.

    Wow, with a dry, cool wit like that, I could be an action star!"

    February 18, 2013 at 6:49PM EST Reply to Comment
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      Some Guy "Die, bad robots, die!

      He he he, with a dry, cool wit like that, I could be an action hero."

      February 19, 2013 at 12:51AM EST
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    pamelajaye

    Don't take a cruise.

    February 19, 2013 at 1:11AM EST Reply to Comment
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    JamesNeuf

    But the Simpsons' trip to Itchy & Scratchy Land was their best vacation ever...

    February 19, 2013 at 10:18AM EST Reply to Comment
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      John But...

      February 19, 2013 at 11:17AM EST
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    eakawie

    Sorry folks, park's closed. Moose out front should have told you.

    February 19, 2013 at 11:50AM EST Reply to Comment
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    John

    Remember, you're parked in the Itchy lot.

    February 19, 2013 at 1:40PM EST Reply to Comment
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    Miken

    My son is also named Bort

    February 21, 2013 at 2:20AM EST Reply to Comment
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    Watched the second ep of Zero Hour. Don't worry, you're safe

    February 22, 2013 at 8:59PM EST Reply to Comment

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