Culture Beast: Just Kill Mr. Bates Already!

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1 Weakest Link Just Kill Mr. Bates Already! This is how to save 'Downton Abbey,' but it must be done at the Series 4 finale this Sunday. By Andrew Romano. Read it at The Daily Beast

2 Corrupt Sotnikova Won? Come On. Maybe it was rigged. Maybe it wasn't. Maybe the judges scored the Russian skater generously because they just wanted to be done with it all and get out of Sochi alive. By Kevin Fallon. Read it at The Daily Beast 4 Read This The Story Behind 'True Detective' An 1895 book of horror stories that's the key to understanding the riveting HBO series 'True Detective' has become a bestseller on Amazon. Read the first four stories here. By Robert W. Chambers. Read it at The Daily Beast Instead of groaning about how much we hate Marnie from Girls, we'll be cheering for it. No longer is it, "Ugh, Marnie is the worst." Think of it this way: "Marnie is the worst. Yay!" READ IT NOW 5 Dying Breed The Last Great Singer-Songwriter Beck's new album, 'Morning Phase,' is his best since the 1990s. But can it resurrect a dying genre? By Andrew Romano. Read it at The Daily Beast 3 Ballots An Oscar Voter Spills Secrets There are 6,000 Academy Awards voters, but there's only one who counts—the one willing to talk to us about Woody Allen, 'American Hustle,' and all the Oscar smear. By Michael Musto. Read it at The Daily Beast TV's Most Hated Characters Sochi Olympic Games: February 21 Best & Worst Dressed of the Week Craziest Cases of Art Vandalism In response to Alfonso Cuarón On 'Gravity,' Creationists, and Bonding with Sandra Bullock Over Divorce: We are just as much in the dark as to an essential understanding of gravity as we are to the beginning of material existence in either basic elemental forms or the complex forms we call life. Colin_Klenz In response to The Rise of Superhero Therapy: Drama therapists intervene using tools like narrative and role, and we're thrilled when we read articles like this one. KPDillingha

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