Summer Entertainment Preview 2010

TIME's critics give you a guided tour of the coming season's new music, movies, books and television, from Futurama to Lollapalooza, Pixar to Xtina

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Premieres August 1

With both Lost and 24 leaving TV screens for good this spring, networks are sensing an opening for the next big, twisty suspense serial. AMC's effort is a political-conspiracy thriller starring James Badge Dale (The Pacific) as a think-tank analyst who's begun to learn things he's not supposed to. The network has gone two for two with stellar drama series Mad Men and Breaking Bad; let's hope its third loads the bases.

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