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OK, this week in reality TV was heavy on racism, violence against women, suicide, starvation, ranch dressing, and, you know, drunken people being idiots. I'm intelligent enough to know that I'm not intelligent enough to appropriately address most of ...

Koh-Lanta, the French version of Survivor, looks almost identical to our own, right down to the Geoffroy Preauxbt, but I'd never paid much attention to it (or Denmark's Robinson Ekspeditionen, or Brazil's No Limite, or even the show that started the ...

In his 2004 book The Wisdom of Crowds, New Yorker financial writer James Surowiecki argued that people, en masse, are often much more clever than they are individually. The idea is that a group, when functioning successfully, is uniquely able to synt...

Whatever doesn't deafen you makes you stronger: Grantland's Jay Caspian Kang, Mark Lisanti, and Emily Yoshida have returned, bowed but not broken by The X Factor, to tackle another season of American Idol. Yes, it's definitely time to start worrying ...

Morrissey, leading world authority on morning sickness, blames "the arrogance of the British royals" (not prank-calling DJs) for the suicide of nurse Jacinta Saldanha. "Is it anorexia or is it pregnancy? I mean, morning sickness already?" asks Morris...

The New York Times reports that a planned Top Gun sequel has been scrapped, but that a 3-D rerelease of Top Gun will go ahead. Production on Top Gun 2 was halted, of course, by the suicide of its director Tony Scott, who helmed the original and was s...

First: Yes, Seth MacFarlane is hosting the Oscars. What?! Yes. He's hosting the Oscars. The AMPAS announced it today. It's happening. It's a done deal. OK, now take a deep breath. In. Hold it. Hold it. Aaaand out. Here's why MacFarlane's hiri...

Showtime's breakout hit returns — and brings the future of cable drama with it.

Director Tony Scott committed suicide on Sunday. According to the L.A. County Coroner, Scott left notes to loved ones in his Toyota Prius, which was parked in an eastbound lane of the Vincent Thomas Bridge, off of which he jumped at about 12:30 p.m. ...

Tara's attempted suicide by tanning bed comes to a swift and predictable halt at Pam's black latex gloved hands. Pam hears out Tara's self-pitying excuses but she is NHFT. Tara's light-abraded pizza face makes her look like Freddie Krueger. Even if B...

All season, in-house Grantland Idol experts Jay Caspian Kang and Mark Lisanti will answer five very important questions about each performance episode. Their efforts will eventually end in a well-publicized murder-suicide. One Who was your favorite...

It's hard to be a person who enjoys reality television. Not only do you have to struggle with the stigma of being the kind of piggy media-vacuum that sucks up big tumbleweeds of TV-watching every day, but you must at some point acknowledge your invol...

Stu Grimson and the rash of hockey-enforcer suicides.

Debating murder versus suicide and the emotional life of a modern boxer.

A father's suicide; a very unlikely kind of therapy.