Category: TV Reviews

I won’t lie, these weren’t the best season finales, but I think the seasons as a whole were incredibly strong, with both shows firing at the top of their game. It’s almost shocking that both of these shows were on Showtime rather than HBO. The Affair…The show revolves around the gimmick of subjective storytelling, as…

It’s not that Craig Ferguson is a bad guy, it’s just that he’s not a very funny or interesting or interested guy. What I mean by interested is that he had a bad habit of having a very narrow focus, and diverting each interview to his “safe zone.” I don’t think I saw one person he interviewed where he…

It was sad to see him go, but I loved watching him leave. I have no idea why CBS chose the best satirist on television to succeed exhausted late night host David Letterman and thus deprive us of the sharpest, most hilarious, and unapologetically political talk show on television. Letterman usually looks like he’d rather…

The under appreciated, wrongly-maligned Aaron Sorkin drama came to a close last night, and I might be the only reviewer in America sad to see it go. [“Newsroom” was a little too hard on voyeuristic/vulture-istic new media to get most blogs behind it, and old media felt pitifully defensive about the show telling them how…

It was a long, drawn-out final season that definitely suffered from some serious padding. [Each episode was usually 90 minutes, and sometimes longer than that.] Since the entire season’s plot was mostly about revenge for the events of season 6, and not many new characters/storylines were introduced it felt like stalling until we finally got…

All’s not-so-well that ends not-so-well on this mediocre Fox drama. True, I haven’t seen the BBC’s version (called “Broadchurch”) but others have said that this American version is sometimes a scene-for-scene remake, and has been a pretty faithful adaptation, and it makes me wonder why that show became such a phenomenon. Anyway, the show wasn’t…

Two stunts, but only one of them was intentionally fake… “Eaten Alive”…Everyone else has already ripped this special to shreds…and they were right. It was two hours long with about ten minutes of real action. The first hour was total padding, and it was only at the very end of the second hour that we…

I can’t say Peter Pan Live totally soars, but I will say that it seems like an improvement over last year’s The Sound of Music (all ten minutes of that that I watched). I finished “Peter Pan Live,” so it’s definitely better in that regard. All in all, I thought it was enjoyable, cheesy, and…

“The Chair” is a reality competition series—-and I know that sounds awful, but keep reading—-where two different first-time directors are given the same movie script and asked to make their own versions of it. [I told you! Plus, it’s got Project Greenlight’s Chris Moore, who’s clearly channelling Danny McBride as he casually drops hilarious truths…

The first round of cancelled TV shows is upon us, and—honestly—I can’t think of a more deserving crop.   Utopia: It wanted to be a high-minded Big Brother, what with a cast of 15 reality show stock character creating their own society. Sadly, that gimmick never really took off, and it just wound up being a…

The second half of the fourth season was painfully slow and scattershot, watching each of them aimlessly roam towards a sanctuary that we just knew was too good to be true. It made me feel like I was watching the worst stretch of episodes since season 2, and like the show just never really learns…

Two very different FX dramas came to a close this past week, let’s take a closer look… The Strain…Although I’ve begun to grow tired of the supernatural horror television genre, I have to admit that this show got under my skin. [Three points for the pun!] Most sci-fi or fantasy-based TV shows are either trying…

Discovery has cornered the market on “extreme” survival shows that don’t actually pay the contestants anything but do look a hell of a lot harder than Survivor… “Naked and Afraid”…A show I stumbled across at 2 o’clock in the morning one night and could hardly believe my eyes. It turns out, there are people out…