Category: TV Reviews

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…

Rectified may be more of a miniseries than a series but The Sundance Channel has promoted it so heavily, you’d be forgiven for thinking they have high hopes for its commercial prospects. It follows a man who has just recently been “freed” from death row (he’s not fully exonerated, just released from jail…the DA could…

Dallas…My guilty pleasure show (I know, I know, it’s not quite up to the Shakespearean excellence of Toddlers in Tiaras, but still). A show I never thought I would like, but, against all odds, I really do. The season (and possible series) finale saw the Ewings scrambling to defeat their powerful enemies, most notably Harris…

Mad Men…This episode starts off deliberately disorienting, throwing us for a minute as we try to figure out exactly what’s changed for all the characters since we last saw them more than a year ago. Time has certainly passed for our core group (only Don and Pete look exactly the same) but not much internally. Don…

Justified commenced their 4th season tonight and it was a satisfying but unspectacular event. [Some Spoilers Ahead] I’m a huge fan of the show’s first two seasons (both of which deserve solid A’s), but wasn’t so big on the uneven, scattershot 3rd season that, at times, resembled a Road Runner cartoon with too many villains…