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BOSTON LEGAL/DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES/LOST
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The Village Voice
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October 13, 2004
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ABC goes bonkers with hysterical retro housewives, crash dummies, and loopy lawyers
BOSTON LEGAL
Sundays at 10 on ABC
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES
Sundays at 9 on ABC
LOST
Wednesdays at 8 on ABC
THIS IS YOUR FALL SEASON ON CRACK
Something strange has happened to television drama this fall: It's gone giddy. Maybe the dominance of reality TV has sent producers running in the opposite direction, toward garish unrealism. HBO shows like The Sopranos and SixFeet Underhsve long used fantasy sequences to contrast characters' dream-lives with their gritty waking hours. But several of the most hyped new showsespecially those on ABC-dwell in la-la land full-time, practically courting preposterousness with ...
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