Category: TV Reviews

That title doesn’t mean that I think True Blood is actually the worst show on TV. [I have seen the 9th circle of hell that is Basketball Wives or anything else on VH1, Bravo, or MTV]. It’s not even the worst show on TV that critics like (I’m lost to the appeal of Showtime’s “Mischievous…

Few shows on TV (and absolutely no shows on TNT) are better than Men of a Certain Age. And yet few shows on TV make me more hesitant to admit I watch them religiously. Sure, you might get cool points for talking up flashy violence like Sons of Anarchy or my personal favorite show Breaking…

You don’t know how bad I wish I could spoil AMC’s first season finale of The Killing. I literally can’t because the killer was still not revealed even after a very long season. I think the actual episode number of The Killing was only 12 or 13 but it felt more like a full season…

After intense, almost deafening speculation, HBO’s Game of Thrones finally arrived in April and will see the end of its first, ten-episode season this Sunday. I can safely say the show is neither a massive disappointment nor wildly successful, instead falling somewhere in the middle. The BEGINNING of the show felt more like the end…

As one of the first fans of HBO’s cult hit The Wire–I watched the first season on HBO before the show became a smash on DVD–I could not have been looking more forward to Wire creator David Simon’s followup Treme. I was hoping he would do for the South what he did for Baltimore: a…

I’m going to grade a few of the season finales we saw in May. These aren’t all the shows I watch (in fact, this is the first episode of The Mentalist I’ve seen all the way through), but it’s the most notable season finales. Looking at this crew it’s become apparent the big four networks…

Last night saw the first season finale of the new Showtime series The Borgias (after only 9 episodes which really feels like a problem that a first season show ran out of material that fast but anyway…). Problem is, the show doesn’t feel that new. Indeed, Showtime is the network that brought us The Tudors,…

Today I’m resurrecting the sorely missed TV reviews to talk about the rarest of all reality show phenomenon: when a reality show is actually useful. Most reality shows are tits-on-a-mule useless with characters that don’t know anything (all the better for a not too bright audience to feel superior to them) in idiotic situations saying…

Now most of you must be sitting there thinking I’m obsessed with this show (having just reviewed the first half of the 5th season a month back) and really I’m not…at all. In fact, I think the show’s best days are long behind it (see the chart below this article for a ranking of their…

Depending on who you are different nights of the week will be considered good for TV. For me Tuesday night—which has a week high of six shows I watch from so-so programmers like V and No Ordinary Family to quietly excellent shows like Parenthood, The Good Wife, Southland, and Lights Out—is the best night of…

I’m not going to spend this whole review talking about NBC’s troubles (they’ve been well documented from everything to Conan O’Brien to 30 Rock making fun of their own network nearly every week), or even call them the worst broadcast network out there (that would actually be CBS, who are the top rated network through…

In the above review of The Mechanic, I speculate that maybe if teenagers were having more sex, they would be less violent. [Christian conservatives can come on here and jump down my throat if they want to but young males getting it on the regular typically don’t storm their schools looking for random people to…

We all know HBO’s legendary roster of some of the greatest shows ever made (The Wire, The Sopranos, Rome, Deadwood, The Larry Sanders Show, and countless others) but taking a look at its schedule you can’t wonder if HBO’s best days are behind it. The Sopranos—its last unqualified hit with both audiences and Emmy voters—is…