Like a middle schooler suddenly realizing that final exams are around the corner, the mostly tired 9th season of BONES went into overdrive tonight to deliver a super-dramatic season finale. The season had inherited a bummer of a cliffhanger from Season 8: Booth (David Boreanaz) was blackmailed by petulant recurring serial killer Pelant (Christopher […]
SCREAM: Tuesday 10PM on MTV – If Nothing Else Is On… There aren’t a lot of sure things in Hollywood, but here’s one: you can always make some money by gathering together a group of teens and killing them off one by one. It’s been true since at least 1978’s Halloween (and its zillions […]
BATTLE CREEK: Sunday 10PM on CBS – Change the Channel While not the worst show of the season, BATTLE CREEK may well be the most disappointing. The light procedural combines the talents of two of TV’s premier writer/showrunners, Breaking Bad‘s Vince Gilligan and House‘s David Shore, with a cast that includes Josh Duhamel, Dean […]
> ROB – Thursdays 8:30PM on CBS – Change the Channel We live in a Dickensian era of situation comedies, the best and worst combined on every network. ABC is the home of both Modern Family and Work It; NBC contains Parks & Recreation and Whitney; FOX has New Girl and I Hate My Teenage […]
The short back “half” of SUITS’ Season 3 was surprisingly intense. With only 6 episodes in play, the show stepped away from its usual super-complex litigations where everyone double-bluffs and triple-crosses everyone else on a weekly basis, and instead focused more deeply than usual on its central characters. In particular, the series returned to […]
As bad as it is for a network when it launches a new series and no one shows up, in a way it has to be worse when the series premiere has a huge start–and then viewers drop away in droves once they’ve given it a try. The first kind of failure may be […]
BILLIONS: Sunday 10PM on Showtime (pilot available via VOD and streaming) – Potential DVR Alert There’s a gag in The Big Short where an esoteric piece of financial information, crucial for understanding the mortgage meltdown but hard to communicate without an audience’s eyes glazing over, is illustrated by having it explained by Margot Robbie […]
HALT AND CATCH FIRE: Sunday 10PM on AMC – Potential DVR Alert HALT AND CATCH FIRE won’t remind you much of The Social Network. (Or for that matter of Silicon Valley.) Set in 1983 Texas and written by first-time series creators Christopher Cantwell and Christopher C. Rogers (the series will be run by the […]