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Alyssa Rosenberg - Alyssa Rosenberg is a correspondent for TheAtlantic.com. She is the pop culture blogger for ThinkProgress, where she writes about the intersection of politics and culture at thinkprogress.org/alyssa. More

Alyssa Rosenberg is a correspondent for TheAtlantic.com. She is the pop culture blogger for ThinkProgress, where she writes about the intersection of politics and culture at http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa.   

Alyssa is also a columnist for the Washington Monthly and The Loop 21. Her career as a critic began at 8, when she began a children's book review column for her local paper, taking payments in gift certificates to the neighborhood bookstore. Since then, her interests have expanded to include Atlanta hip-hop, procedural television shows, and action movies she watches without any sense of irony whatsoever. Her writing on culture has appearedin Esquire.com, The Daily, The Daily Beast and the American Prospect, and she has written about politics and the executive branch for Government Executive, The New Republic and National Journal.   
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Fall TV's 10 Biggest Disappointments

By Alyssa Rosenberg

Dec 8 2011, 10:00 AM ET Comment

NBC shelves a cult favorite, True Blood gets weird, and more lowlights from a frustrating season

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The end of a year in entertainment always produces a glut of best-of lists. But it's as important to learn from mistakes as it is from successes. And in television, 2011 was full of missteps, weird decisions, and regressive plotlines. From the creative crash and burn of initially-promising trends like a spike in comedies created by and starring women to True Blood's descent into racist nonsense to HBO's decision to kill what could have been a delightfully weird, feminist look at Hollywood before it even got off the ground, here in no particular order, are what we can learn from the biggest disappointments of the last season in television.



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