TV is a little poorer for the loss of TREME, a series that never fully received the appreciation–from viewers or critics–that it deserved. Even a bit watered down from its usual density in a last season of only 5 hours (well, 5 1/3 with tonight’s supersized finale), it was a unique mix of New […]
MASTERS OF SEX: Sunday 10PM on Showtime – Potential DVR Alert After the macho angst of Ray Donovan and–notwithstanding its excellence–the heavy going of Homeland, Showtime smartly changes pace with MASTERS OF SEX, an engrossing, sexy and sometimes funny history based on the real lives of Dr. William Masters and Virginia Johnson, trailblazing sexuality […]
> Last night ABC’s REVENGE became the first of the network serialized dramas to return from its long midseson hiatus. Let’s see how the show managed its 2012 arrival. WHERE WE LEFT OFF: Emily Thorne (Emily VanCamp), who’s really Amanda Clarks, continued her plot to bring down the super-rich Grayson family, headed by matriarch Victoria […]
The year’s Top 10 movies are here, and a variety of honorable mentions are here. But now for something completely different… Along with the egg nog and tinsel, there’s a certain undeniable seasonal pleasure to be had in singling out the truly spectacular misses of the movie year for some shame and ridicule. We […]
THE BLACKLIST: Monday 10PM on NBC – If Nothing Else Is On… NBC has made it very clear that its top fall priority is the launch of the new Monday drama THE BLACKLIST. The show has been given the network’s plum post-The Voice slot, and clearly, NBC sees the series as a more consistent […]
A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and the production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may have had their own turnover) give plenty of notes, helpful and otherwise, and critics begin to […]
It’s easy to overlook the ingeniousness of Dan Fogelman’s THIS IS US, the season’s only broadcast network smash hit. On its face, the show is a familiar, even old-fashioned family soap, in which the various members of a clan are constantly beset by romantic, professional or medical problems–The Fosters with older siblings. But Fogelman’s […]
THE ASSETS: Thursday 10PM on ABC Previously… on THE ASSETS: In 1980s Washington, the hunt is on for a CIA agent who’s actually a mole for the KGB. But there’s no mystery for viewers, who know that the double agent is Aldrich Ames (Paul Rhys). The agent who doesn’t know, and has been tasked […]