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'Recount': Still Too Close for Comfort

 

Published 5/23/2008 by Tom Shales at washingtonpost.com - Television

There's something especially satisfying about a can't-miss proposition that doesn't -- partly because so many hugely ballyhooed "sure things" instead land with ignominious splats. A splat is precisely what does not happen with HBO's "Recount," an electrifying slapstick tragedy about a mad moment in... (link)

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