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Just saw the complete 8-hour new season of Sleeper Cell on Showtime - which deserves credit for putting up the whole series On-Demand, before the series finishes its first run. Some of the episodes were brilliant, a few were soft, but all-in-all a powerful series with innovative pacing, especially in the final two episodes.
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Just saw the complete 8-hour new season of Sleeper Cell on Showtime - which deserves credit for putting up the whole series On-Demand, before the series finishes its first run. Some of the episodes were brilliant, a few were soft, but all-in-all a powerful series with innovative pacing, especially in the final two episodes.
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long version: Paul Levinson is Professor and Chair of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University, author of 12 books, and a frequent guest on television and radio news shows.
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Alan Dodd
Posted on December 11, 2006 at 08:25 AM | Permalink
Review of Wide Awake for Sleeper Cell
This review of the upcoming season of "Sleeper Cell" gives little reason for a new viewer to tune in.
I had a couple problems with this review: First, it spends almost half its time on the phenomenon of Showtime On-Demand, which is only tangentially related to the content being reviewed.
Second, and more importantly, after listening to the review, I have no idea what "Sleeper Cell" is, beyond that it is a television produced by Showtime and that it comes highly recommended by the reviewer.
If you are currently a viewer of the program, or are familiar with its content, this might be to your liking, but as an uninitiated listener, it does not answer the most pressing and fundamental questions about the show.