GHOSTED: Sunday 8:30PM on FOX – In the Queue FOX’s new sitcom GHOSTED has two big assets in stars Adam Scott and Craig Robinson, a pair of experienced comedy players who combine star presence with chops as members of the unselfish Parks & Recreation and The Office ensembles. The premise of Tom Gormican’s series […]
LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT – Wednesday 10PM on NBC SVU began its 15th season with an atypically dark, serialized episode that served as a showcase for star Mariska Hargitay. It picked up from the Season 14 finale, in which Detective Olivia Benson (Hargitay) was captured by a sadistic rapist and murderer played […]
GAME OF THRONES: Sunday 9PM on HBO That ineffable “It” that HBO referred to in the classic “It’s Not TV. It’s HBO” ad campaign is now remarkably widespread, from FX to AMC, from Showtime to Netflix. HBO for its part has had plenty of failures over the 14 years since The Sopranos established it […]
9-1-1: Wednesday 9PM on FOX – Surprisingly Unsurprising Saying that FOX’s 9-1-1 is the Ryan Murphy team’s version of a Dick Wolf procedural makes it sound far more subversive and original than it actually is. In fact, for the most part its opening hour is virtually indistinguishable from one of the cogs in Wolf’s wheel […]
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: CULT – Tuesday 10PM on FX We find ourselves in boom times for killer clowns. They’re the main vehicles for terror in the new installment of FX’s Ryan Murphy anthology AMERICAN HORROR STORY, dubbed CULT (including a cameo from Freak Show‘s Twisty), and one of the granddaddies of the genre, Stephen King’s […]
ZOO: Tuesday 9PM on CBS Viewers who enjoyed the first dumb season of CBS’s ZOO last summer–and there were quite a few of them–should have little quarrel with Season 2. In fact, based on the two-hour season premiere (Hour 1 written by Supervising Producer Matt Pitts and Producer Melissa Glenn; Hour 2 by Co-Executive […]
HART OF DIXIE: Monday 8PM on CW It’s a strange thing to say about an airy, cornpone rom-com, but HART OF DIXIE is the most grounded show on the CW schedule. None of the characters have supernatural powers; there are no secret government agencies or international assassins to be seen; franchises aren’t in play. […]
JUSTIFIED has the luxury of time. The series typically tells one or two extended stories through the course of its season, so tonight’s Season 4 premiere, written by series creator Graham Yost and directed by Michael Dinner, mostly served to introduce the year’s plotlines and allow us to make the acquaintance of some new […]