Latest Hank Stuever Quotes from Interviews

• "Big Bang Theory" focuses on main characters who in other shows would only be auxiliary players hewing to stereotype: The gawky nerd who lives next door and says oddball things.

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  Character, Player, Nerd

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

• I'm a fan of half-hour shows that can be both funny and dramatic.

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  Fans, Half, Dramatic

  "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". live.washingtonpost.com. September 15, 2016.

• I don't have scientific data, but I think plenty of perfectly nice weekends are being given over to the binge craze.

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  Nice, Weekend, Thinking

  "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. Janaury 28, 2016.

• My first few years as TV critic, I would go to parties and people (usually older Posties or ex-Posties who seemed to pride themselves on not watching very much television) would take me by the arm and insist that I watch this show they'd recently starting watching on DVD, about drug dealers in Baltimore.

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  Party, Pride, Dvds

  "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. Janaury 28, 2016.

• Just as it's unfair to review a taco stand for not being a four-star restaurant, I also have to be mindful that not every drama on TV is trying to be "The Wire."

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  Stars, Drama, Trying

  "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. Janaury 28, 2016.

• I'm pretty sure the world is in solid agreement that "The Wire" is worth watching all the way through.

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  Agreement, Wire, World

  "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 28, 2016.

• In the end, all critics should be guided by this one principle: Is this piece of work [TV show, movie, play, concert, album, restaurant] succeeding at what it set out to do?

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  Tv Shows, Play, Principles

  "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 28, 2016.

• In fact, when it comes to TV, I'm not even sure what my real, true preferences are.

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  Real, Facts, Tvs

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

• My work is very much like the restaurant critic's - a number of factors come together to make for a strong review.

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  Strong, Numbers, Together

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

• It seems to me conspiracy is at the heart of dozens of TV dramas currently on. Maybe that itself is some kind of conspiracy.

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  Drama, Heart, Dozen

  "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. December 24, 2015.

• Mobster stories are always a harder sell for me. I don't romanticize organize crime the way others do, though I can be swayed.

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  Stories, Way, Mobster

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

• "Star Trek" expands almost instinctively - the more information you seek from it, the more it gives. It also has the benefit of taking place in our future, our mutual destinies as occupants of a peaceful, non-polluted Earth.

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  Stars, Destiny, Giving

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

• As far as my personal nostalgia zone goes, I find I watch more of AntennaTV than anything else.

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  Watches, Nostalgia, Zone

  "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. December 24, 2015.

• I've loved the "Star Wars" movies for the ride and pure fun and found that it just didn't stand up when asked for more, particularly when it comes to back stories, prequels, spin-offs, encyclopedic scope, etc.

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  Stars, Fun, War

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

• We got Arbitron diaries at my house in the 1980s, when the family was down to just my mother and me, and we tried for a couple of days to fill it out (I of course treated it like we'd been asked to write a new book of the Bible), but we got really bored with it and gave it up.

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  Mother, Couple, Book

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

• I think the occasional appearance of the UFO is a very oblique pop-cultural reference that anyone who was alive and sentient in the late 1970s will get right away.

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  Thinking, Alive, Appearance

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

• I have to confess I can't have the holiday season without "Hard Candy Christmas". For some reason, it makes me think of the sticky ribbon candy bowl my mid-western grandma always had.

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  Grandma, Holiday, Thinking

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

• I do get lots of links to advance screeners, which helps, but there's no way I could do my job without the full-on cable subscription.

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  Jobs, Links, Way

  "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. November 19, 2015.

• I don't really like to arrange shows by best performances. That's why Emmy season is kind of a chore for me. Unlike movies, where it's easier to decide who was the best performance, a TV show goes up and down, including characters/portrayals.

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  Character, Tv Shows, Tvs

  "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. November 19, 2015.

• I like the anthology concept. I wish more shows would do it.

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  Wish, Anthology, Shows

  "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. November 19, 2015.

• Never forget that I am paid for my troubles!

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  Never Forget, Forget, Trouble

  "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. November 19, 2015.

• I'm not much a TV reporter, as in someone who covers the daily machinations of the television industry, though I certainly follow it and weave it into my reviews and essays about the medium.

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  Television, Tvs, Reviews

  "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. November 12, 2015.

• The fastest way to bring financial ruin upon yourself is to go for a drive in the United States without proof of insurance and current license and registration.

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  United States, Way, Ruins

  "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. October 29, 2015.

• One of the dirty little secrets of my job is that I don't do ANY food or cooking shows.

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  Jobs, Dirty, Cooking

  "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. October 29, 2015.

• I love commercials. I love to hate commercials, too. I talk back to them.

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  Hate, Love Hate

  "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. October 15, 2015.

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