Category: TV Reviews

I’d say 90 percent of people I meet have never even heard of Showtime’s The Borgias (a.k.a. The Tudors with a Pope instead of King Henry). Those people probably won’t be interested to hear about it now that Showtime has cancelled the series and refused to give it the two-hour TV movie they had been…

Two new cable series (IFC’s “Maron,” Comedy Central’s “Inside Amy Schumer”) showcasing two reasonably well-known standup talents (Marc Maron and, you guessed it, Amy Schumer). Two shows enter, only one can be named victorious… Maron What’s Going For It: This contest really comes down to your personal taste in the tone of a series. Maron…

Two frustrating dramas that perhaps only I watch returned recently while Game of Thrones came off one of their most shocking episodes to date. The Killing…I was as frustrated as it gets with this show’s terrible second season. I was so down on it that I was seriously happy when AMC cancelled the show…only to…

Tonight is the Super Bowl of gay television as it was not only the series finale of NBC’s Smash, but the premiere of this above-average TV movie about Liberace. HBO continued their winning streak of biopics for unconventional icons (Al Pacino in You Don’t Know Jack and The Phil Spector Story) with this film, which…

I know I’m weeks too late for this article to be relevant (Southland’s 5th season finale was on April 16th) but, in a way, that’s all the better to keep this terrific, criminally underrated show on people’s minds. If you haven’t been watching “Southland” when it was on NBC, then got cancelled, then got a second life…

Cable and premium cable have produced a lot of anti-heroes over the years, but, so far, broadcast TV has preferred to keep their heroes/heroines unrealistically/squeaky clean and moral. ABC tried to push things a little more towards the dark side with their new drama, Red Widow, which concluded its first (and likely only) season last night….

Some give NBC’s excellent “Parks and Recreation” the slightly back-handed praise of “best comedy on broadcast TV,” as if broadcast is a short-bus of lowered expectations and cable is vastly superior. Well…actually, for dramas that’s 100 percent true, but that’s beside the point… Sure, FX has the critically beloved “Louie” (which I’ll admit is a damn good…

A fine conclusion to a solid season. Sure, there may not have been any Earth-shattering cliffhangers for a show about spies, but this has always been a much more grounded, realistic show than, say, Alias. [I often describe it as an ultra-realistic “Alias,” made by people who actually understand spy craft.] If you aren’t watching…

The Following’s already been renewed for a second season, so there wasn’t much pressure on tonight’s episode. Still, I feel like every episode has been slightly worse than the one that came before it (it’s now more of an action-thriller show than a suspenseful/horror one), and the show has grown increasingly preposterous in how well-organized…

Tonight brought the season finales of two shows that——-for once——-don’t have to worry about tying everything up. Both shows have been renewed for another season, as The History Channel is impressed with Vikings ratings performance and CBS is thrilled that somebody besides paranoid shut-ins is watching one of their shows, hence The Good Wife remaining…

It’s official, Community just isn’t the same now that Dan Harmon (Community’s singular creator) has been fired from the helm. The show’s fans are passionate and probably always will be, but even they have to admit that if the show were ever going to be cancelled, the end of this season would be an okay…