Category: TV Reviews

Last night on ABC, the new show GCB premiered as part of a wave of Southern set TV shows that have come on the scene in the last five years after roughly 150 of being ignored. So I thought it might give “interloping yankees” a nice perspective to be able to rank the Southern set…

It happens. Every once and a while a show comes along that most critics love but I don’t “get.” Sometimes it’s me, sometimes it’s them, but either way there are always at least five or six shows on TV that other critics think are worth watching but I don’t. This list isn’t going to be…

Last week I expressed disappointment with the Fall’s new shows as—-in my opinion—-really none of the best and brightest have fully lived up their potential. Well this week I have no such complaints about the midseason crop as there’s not an outright stinker in the bunch of the ones I will talk about today. Consider…

So here we here are in midseason, and although many of last Fall’s shows didn’t get cancelled because of their decent ratings, I can’t help but think the new crop of youngsters looks more promising (The River, Touch, Awake). After taking a step back, I can honestly say that none of the Fall’s new shows…

So only a few hours ago, Showtime’s Homeland ended their first season, and (despite a few crafty suspense sequences) it ended not with a bang, but with a whimper. [Spoilers: By contrast, Showtime’s only other credible drama, Dexter, finally kicked things into high gear with the predictable death of the Doomsday Killer but at the…

Last night, HBO served up a special one-two punch of dramas you were either excited by or bored with depending on who you are. It was the second season finale of Boardwalk Empire followed immediately by a special sneak preview of the first episode of their new drama Luck. Let’s start with Boardwalk Empire. I’ve…

Today’s TV review is AMC’s Hell on Wheels, a show that a couple of people asked me to review weeks ago on the day after its premiere. I would have been happy to oblige then (and welcome any requests for future shows) but I like to give a show a couple weeks to marinate. I…

So right now HBO has no fewer than four half-hour comedy shows currently winding up their seasons as small reminders not to cancel your subscriptions to the network. The network’s current bread and butter are big ticket dramas like True Blood, Game of Thrones, and the also-in-season Boardwalk Empire and so it’s doubtful anyone will…

The biggest hit Showtime has ever had, Dexter, is now in its 6th season and, now more than ever, the gray hairs are beginning to show. I’ve seen the first five episodes (almost half of the show’s twelve episode season) and I think they’ve managed to make the impossible happen: a show about a merciless…

Today we do something a little different for the TV review as I review a show that isn’t currently on the air and got cancelled about this time last year with little fanfare. Now, before some of you think I’m off to explore irrelevance while this new TV season has literally dozens of new shows…

I sore a blood oath (minus the blood) that I would bring loyal readers reviews of all the new Fall shows. So far I’ve reviewed the first 19 premieres to debut, and today bring reviews of “Suburgatory” and “How to Be a Gentleman.” But since two paragraph long reviews of those shows probably aren’t enough,…

Today I go for a record number of reviews on the site as I attempt to review all 17 of the broadcast TV (that’s Fox, ABC, CBS, for about another two years NBC, and the why-the-hell-not CW) pilots that have aired so far. I have seen EVERY pilot that has aired so far (appreciate my…

Two once edgy cable comedy-dramas (although Entourage was supposed to be a straight comedy, Rescue Me was often funnier) crawled to a close last week after 8 years on the air. Of course I would love to kick the skeletons of Rescue Me and Entourage, two shows long past their peak and that both started…