Category: TV Reviews

Last night, FX premiered their new show “The Americans,” and I think it’s great to see them get back into the drama game. FX’s programs of late have been either stale sitcoms (Anger Management), dirt-cheap talk shows (Totally Biased/Brand X), “raunchy” stale sitcoms that pretend to be edgy (Legit/Wilfried), or crazy horror shows that feel…

TNT’s reboot of “Dallas” is back, and that either means nothing to you, or means a lot to you (especially if you’re a fan of both the original and the reboot). The original Dallas was before my time, but I thought the first season was surprisingly decent, I wouldn’t say I really loved it, but…

We’re just seeing all kinds of series finales buried in January aren’t we? In the last week, we’ve seen the goodbye episodes of Private Practice and Fringe, and next week will see the final episode of 30 Rock. I’m not sure why shows that have been on the air so long can’t make it a…

Tonight brought the finales of the Tuesday night weepers: Private Practice and Parenthood. Now, I’ll admit that these shows don’t have a lot in common except for their time slot and that they attempt to make viewers cry every week. I’ll also admit that I’ve seen nearly every episode of Parenthood (save for some season…

Tonight was the series premiere of the show Fox hopes will save their season, The Following. It’s Kevin Bacon’s first foray into television, and it’s easy to see why he thought this was the right star vehicle for him. For starters, Fox is the network that saved another 80’s star from obscurity, 24’s Kiefer Sutherland,…

Tonight marks the end of Fringe as we know it, and even though that means nothing to most people, hardcore Fringe fans have spent 5 years waiting to see how the show shakes out… 8:00 p.m. The end has started… 8:03 p.m. Nice to see Lance Reddick’s Colonel Broyles back in the mix… 8:04 p.m….

FX saw the return of its comedy block tonight, and that meant new episodes of “Anger Management” (a show I didn’t watch…on purpose) and “Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell” (which is great if you love hearing Bill Maher’s jokes three weeks later and out of the mouth of Kenan Thompson as he does his…

Last night brought the season premieres of three “comedies” as premium cable has now come to define the word: without laughs. That’s not true entirely, as all shows are sporadically funny, but they’re also not exclusively concerned with making people hee-haw, instead asking viewers to go on a journey that might be found more in…

And now, a study in opposites as I review one terrific show kicking off its 4th season with a solid, firing-on-all-cylinders episode and a brand-new show that already feels stale. Deception…I like to do the bad news first, and NBC’s new Monday night drama Deception (for those that are restless for Revolution to come back)…

Sons of Anarchy is almost the exact opposite of Treme (see review from earlier today), whereas Treme is a show I want to like and know is good for me, but I just never really can get into, Sons of Anarchy is pure junk food. It’s the equivalent of Real Housewives for Men, where we watch…

Boardwalk Empire is a show that I should love, but don’t. It’s a show I want to like more often than I really like. And it’s a show I root for more than I really look forward to. That’s because I know the show has been right on the edge of being a great show for so…

The Walking Dead has never had a season as good as the (half) season they just finished, with the rest of the third season airing in February. Honestly, the second season (which found them stuck on a farm and really stuck with the same basic dialogue in every episode) was so tedious and stagnant and…

Not a ton of new shows to grade this week (that I didn’t already grade on Thursday) but I thought I would throw up some quick reviews on the CW’s new Arrow and AMC’s return of Walking Dead. Arrow…This just isn’t really my kind of show. Sure, I like superheroes well enough but the CW…