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Our Pop-Culture Resolutions

Watching ''The Wire.'' Screening all 10 Best Picture nominees. Playing MORE video games. See all the pop-culture promises folks around the EW office are making for the new year
By EW Staff Updated December 21, 2009 at 07:00 PM EST
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Watching The Wire is by far our most popular resolution. A sampling:

I am locking myself in for all of January's (and February's, if necessary) weekends and watching all of The Wire, dammit, —Jennifer Armstrong

I will call in ''sick'' for a week and watch The Wire on DVD from beginning to end. I feel so inadequate for having missed out on this show. —Chris Nashawaty

I vow to finally rent The Wire so I can stop pretending to know what my friends have been talking about for the last seven years. Who is Bubbles? What is an Omar?? —Leah Greenblatt

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The Bachelor | My resolution is not to get so emotionally involved in The Bachelor that I scare my husband out of the room by screaming and ranting…
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My resolution is not to get so emotionally involved in The Bachelor that I scare my husband out of the room by screaming and ranting at the TV during the final rose ceremony as the Bachelor inevitably picks the wrong woman. That said, I know I will break this resolution. —Kristen Baldwin

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | I have to finally catch up on the Harry Potter books and movies before the last installments. — Kerrie Mitchell
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I have to finally catch up on the Harry Potter books and movies before the last installments. —Kerrie Mitchell

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FlashForward, Joseph Fiennes, ...
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I promise to watch all the episodes of FlashForward on my TiVo. And at least one episode of Jersey Shore to see what all the hype is about. —Connie Yu

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Battlestar Galactica, Edward James Olmos, ... | I work at Entertainment Weekly and I haven't watched Battlestar Galactica , Crazy! — Meeta Agrawal
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I work at Entertainment Weekly and I haven't watched Battlestar Galactica, Crazy! —Meeta Agrawal

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I resolve to finally read 2666 by Roberto Bolano. Because it's almost 1,000 pages, it may be the only book I read all year. —…

I resolve to finally read 2666 by Roberto Bolano. Because it's almost 1,000 pages, it may be the only book I read all year. —Darren Franich

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Sons of Anarchy | Oh, I tried to resist it. I was convinced I wasn't going to root for a bunch of violent, sexist thugs on bikes — no…
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I will catch up on Sons of Anarchy. —Michael Ausiello

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Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire, Up in the Air | I will watch all of the Oscar's Best Picture nominees, even though there are 10 this year — and they can't all be that good.…
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I will watch all of the Oscar's Best Picture nominees, even though there are 10 this year — and they can't all be that good. —Kate Stroup

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thirtysomething, Ken Olin, ... | Now that I'm a thirtysomething, I'm going to give thirtysomething another chance. I have the first two seasons on DVD. — Lesley Savage

Now that I'm a thirtysomething, I'm going to give thirtysomething another chance. I have the first two seasons on DVD. —Lesley Savage

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The Big Bang Theory | Big Bang Theory recap: Leonard and Sheldon (almost) break up over the Large Hadron Collider It?s been so long since Leonard had a halfway decent…
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I vow to start tuning in for The Big Bang Theory, and to watch even more on the Discovery, History, and Science channels so I can pretend my anthropology degree wasn't a total waste. —Mandi Bierly

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Dane Cook: Vicious Circle | I resolve to not judge my boyfriend when he laughs during commercials for comedy specials starring Dane Cook or Carlos Mencia. I say ''commercials,'' because…
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I resolve to not judge my boyfriend when he laughs during commercials for comedy specials starring Dane Cook or Carlos Mencia. I say ''commercials,'' because if he so much as attempts to watch a second of the specials themselves, I will break him Dolph Lundgren-style. —Kate Ward

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XBox | To play MORE video games. I bought this damn XBox, I should probably play it once in a while. Whenever I do I'm always shocked…

To play MORE video games. I bought this damn XBox, I should probably play it once in a while. Whenever I do I'm always shocked by how cool the games are. My wife is less impressed, though...and there's the rub. —Mike Bruno

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