Category: TV Reviews

Although I really want to talk about a great show a little later today (Newsroom), let’s warm up by quickly grading some shitty ones. [Except for Grimm, which is just mediocre, not bad.] True Blood…Last night was the fifth season finale of HBO’s (current) longest running drama show, and just realizing that makes me depressed. The fact…

In the last week, we’ve seen long running TV series end (The Closer), short running TV series end (Political Animals), and the second season finale of an occasionally strong, often frustrating series (Falling Skies). The Closer…I’ve never watched a single episode of this show, so the “finale” (which really just set up an almost identical…

In what must have seemed like a strange coincidence (or maybe it was deliberate), both of AMC’s dramas revolved heavily around train robberies last night. This type of heist hasn’t been popular since the days of Jesse James, so it was more than a little unique (and refreshing) that it was last night. First, the…

As we enter into the new Fall television season in the next few weeks (NBC will be rolling their lineup out sooner than the others to capitalize on the Olympic’s coverage) it’s time to say goodbye (and judge) all the shows I’ve been using as filler for the last couple months. Dallas…Against all possible odds,…

The best show on Television (right now) is back and all is right with the world. Some fans (and non-fans) may have seen the season 5 posters of TV’s most complicated lead character ever, Walter White, sitting in a lab with mountains of cash and meth around him, and the tagline “All hail the king.”…

So last night was the premiere of FX’s new comedy block, complete with new seasons of Louie (wildly regarded as the best comedy on TV, but I think is a little too inconsistent for that label), and Wilfred (widely regarded as one of the worst, and very consistent in that label), and the series premieres…

So the Summer TV season is in full swing, and that means it’s the dominant season of cable, who have original shows more or less all to themselves while the broadcast nets show Big Brother ripoffs like ABC’s “Glass House.” So if you don’t like reality shows (and I sure as hell don’t) but want…

I won’t make this review very long, because, well, each episode of Burning Love is about eight minutes. Since it’s not as long as a traditional television show—-and has a clear ending in sight even from the beginning—-it doesn’t have time to waste, and the result is an expedient, righteously dead-on parody of The Bachelor….

So last night was the second season finale (and hopefully, please God the SERIES finale) of AMC’s The Killing, inarguably the worst show they’ve ever produced unless you truly hate zombies. I’d like to quickly lay out what happened, thus solving the long overdue and extremely convoluted mystery of “Who Killed Rosie Larsen?” (me, I’m…

Back in the now-distant seeming decade known as the 00’s or aughties or the Bush II years or whatever the hell history chooses to remember it as (but it probably won’t want to remember it at all) the one truly remarkable thing happening wasn’t in the gradually worsening economy or gloomy foreign policy outlook or…

So in addition to Mad Men and every other AMC drama, I also watch AMC’s latest (but not last) foray into reality programming called “The Pitch.” The Pitch is part of a troubling trend in AMC programming towards cheap and easy reality shows (like Kevin Smith’s deathly boring Comic Book Men and the upcoming Small…

Note: I do spoil what happened in last night’s season 5 finale, so don’t read further if you haven’t watched it yet. Or perhaps skip down to the review portion… What Happened: The episode begins with Don in terrible pain from a toothache and Megan’s mother (the alternately seductive and bitter Juliette Binoche) visiting them…