With the best post Sept. 11 intentions, one of TV's finest dramas indulged in its worst tendencies: preachiness, speechifying and condescension. As its characters lectured a high school class about terrorism, the show figuratively and patronizingly reduced its audience to schoolchildren who needed a lesson.
Animated actors dominated the box office, Barry Bonds hit 73 and 'It' turned out to be a scooter. TIME picks the bests and the worsts of this year...