Category: TV Reviews

More new premieres tonight, and more reasons to be watching NBC than CBS…   The Crazy Ones…The new CBS show that thinks we’ll keep watching just because it’s got Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar (an actress people don’t care about outside of playing Buffy). We won’t. The pilot was an unpromising mishmash of Mad…

ABC unveiled their all-new Tuesday night lineup tonight, and although I’ve already reviewed Trophy Wife (and don’t think I’ll be making it to episode 2), I thought the others were worth at least one glance… Marvel’s Agents of Shield…I know a lot of people are looking more forward to this than I was, and I’m…

Two new dramas that deal in action and slick assassins that both, sadly, face each other on Monday nights at 10 p.m. eastern. But which one is worth a season-long look?   Hostages…The show takes off from the seemingly simple premise that Toni Collete is a skilled surgeon who’s supposed to operate on the President…

Earlier today I wrote a fairly long article grading the seasons of Dexter. Now let’s look exclusively at the series finale with a recap/review. [Spoilers ahead.]   What Happened: The episode started with Deborah seemingly fine after a shot to the shoulder from the season’s “Big Bad,” the Brain Surgeon a.k.a. Dr. Vogel’s son a.k.a….

What started out as a strong gameshow (I originally gave the show an A- in my initial review) filled with pressure cooker tension and timed bouts, eventually became rather monotonous. It didn’t help that the same people were on Winner’s Row for practically the entire televised run, and that we didn’t have many people to…

You know I’m running out of things to talk about when I’m reviewing the third season premiere of a Comedy Central sketch show. What’s next…grading cat videos on YouTube? However, it helps that Key and Peele are consistently hilarious, and have competition only from Inside Amy Schumer in the “Best Sketch Show” on TV sweepstakes….

Fox debuted their new Tuesday night comedy lineup, and it looks like I’ll be tuning into an hour of it, while actively avoiding the other hour…   Dads…One of the worst pilots in recent memory. Not only did I not laugh one time, but the entire enterprise has a generally cruddy, slapshot quality to it…

  Sleepy Hollow…I actually liked the beginning to this (admittedly) preposterous show. It deals with Ichabod Crane falling asleep as a Revolutionary War Hero and being woken up in 2013 Sleepy Hollow while trying to outfox the Headless Horseman (actually one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse) who’s started dropping headless bodies all over…

  Breaking Bad: A very pivotal episode tonight. I almost don’t even want to spoil it for those that haven’t watched it yet. One really big scene after another, and it’s clear the show is playing all its cards so close to the end. [One spoiler ahead] If I had to quibble though, I would say that…

Three “new” family comedies that are available On Demand a few weeks before their “official” premieres, and not a one of them worth watching. “Unconventional” family comedies (i.e. gay dad, or a step-mom, or a single mom, or adopted Asian kid for a step mom, basically anything other than a nuclear family) are the big…

An early premiere of a wheelchair-bound detective, a season finale of a sunny camp dramedy, and a limited event game show that hopes to be the next Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?  Three very different vehicles, but all of them on NBC. Is the peacock taking chances in this early Fall deadzone? Not quite……

[Spoilers ahead] On another indulgently long episode of SoA (it was 93 minutes tonight, and each episode this season is going to be significantly longer than an hour, making each week a mini-movie), things were pushed to new heights of depravity. Tonight’s season six opener featured anal prison rape (guy on guy), beatings galore (guy…

There was no better showcase of exactly what makes a quality drama downright riveting, must-watch television than what just transpired a couple of hours ago as Boardwalk Empire shared the same time slot as Breaking Bad. But to call these two shows equals would be putting it mildly. Yes, they are both quality, serialized dramas…