Showbuzz Daily


 
Posts Tagged ‘serialized drama’
Recent
Most Commented
Random
 

 
Pilot + 1

THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “The Knick”

  THE KNICK:  Friday 10PM on Cinemax Previously… on THE KNICK:  New York’s Knickerbocker Hospital circa 1900 is a highly respectable institution, funded by wealthy benefactors and with a conscientious staff, ...
by Mitch Salem
 
Full Story »

 
 
Reviews

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “iZombie”

  The existence of the strikingly similar (in premise) Stitchers provides some perspective on the imagination and skill that’s gone into IZOMBIE.  Both shows involve young women who temporarily enter the minds of th...
by Mitch Salem
 
Full Story »

 

 
Reviews

THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Shameless”

  SHAMELESS:  Sunday 9PM on Showtime The Gallagher family is undergoing transitions as Season 4 of Showtime’s SHAMELESS begins, and the tone is considerably less rambunctious than in previous seasons.  That’s...
by Mitch Salem
 
Full Story »

 
 
Pilot + 1

THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “The Leftovers”

  THE LEFTOVERS:  Sunday 10PM on HBO Previously… on THE LEFTOVERS:  3 years ago, 2% of the world’s population simultaneously and spontaneously vanished, in what may have been the Rapture (albeit a Rapture tha...
by Mitch Salem
 
Full Story »

 

 
Reviews

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “The Good Wife”

  Season 6 of THE GOOD WIFE has a tough act to follow:  its own dazzling Season 5, which brought the show back from previous signs of subdued middle age and established it once again as one of the best shows on any form o...
by Mitch Salem
 
Full Story »

 
 
Reviews

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Finale Review: “The Following”

  Hardly anyone who wasn’t earning a paycheck from Kevin Williamson’s THE FOLLOWING will miss it.  It was as close as any network series has ever come to torture porn, with at least one or two innocents being ...
by Mitch Salem
 
Full Story »

 

 
Reviews

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Halt and Catch Fire”

  HALT AND CATCH FIRE is in part a show about the cold realities of business, and business logic suggests that a third season for the series is unlikely.  The ratings, cool in Season 1, were icy this year; the show neithe...
by Mitch Salem
 
Full Story »

 
 
Pilot Reports

THE SKED SERIES PREMIERE REVIEW: “The White Queen”

  THE WHITE QUEEN – Saturday 9PM on Starz – Worth A Look Starz’s THE WHITE QUEEN is, apart from a bit of nudity (this is pay cable, after all), a rather old-fashioned historical bodice-ripper.  The bodic...
by Mitch Salem
 
Full Story »

 

 
Reviews

THE SKED Season Premiere Review: “Mad Men”

  MAD MEN:  Sunday 10PM on AMC Fresh episodes of MAD MEN will likely still be airing more than a year from now, so all the obituaries for the series that have been appearing lately run the risk of sounding like “Gen...
by Mitch Salem
 
Full Story »

 
 
Articles

THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Crossbones”

  CROSSBONES:  Friday 10PM on NBC Previously… on CROSSBONES:  The infamous pirate Edward Teague AKA Blackbeard (John Malkovich), has established an island kingdom for himself on New Providence in the Caribbean, wit...
by Mitch Salem
 
Full Story »

 

 
Pilot + 1

SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “How To Get Away With Murder”

  HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER:  Thursday 10PM on ABC Previously… on HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER:  At Middleton College, the brilliant, daunting law professor and criminal defense attorney Annalise Keating (Viola Da...
by Mitch Salem
 
Full Story »

 
 
Reviews

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “The Royals”

  History will record that on the same night the curtain rang down for Mad Men, THE ROYALS also concluded its season.  As utterly different as the two shows are, The Royals is one of the many cable scripted series that pr...
by Mitch Salem
 
Full Story »

 

 
Reviews

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Fargo”

  FARGO:  Monday 10PM on FX Despite all the pressures of launching a new storyline and cast–not to mention living up to its brilliant first season–Noah Hawley’s reincarnation of the Coen Brothers’ ...
by Mitch Salem
 
Full Story »

 
 
Midseason Finale

THE SKED Fall Finale Review: “Reign”

  REIGN rang down the curtain on the first piece of its season (it returns on January 23, having managed to hold onto its post-Vampire Diaries timeslot) in fine historical romance style.  The script, by series co-creator ...
by Mitch Salem
 
Full Story »

 

 
Reviews

THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Once Upon A Time”

  After a so-so fall spent mostly in Neverland, ONCE UPON A TIME rebounded strongly with its midseason arc, which brought the Wicked Witch of the West (Rebecca Mader) to Storybrooke.  The plotline effectively continued th...
by Mitch Salem
 
Full Story »

 

 
 

 

Search

 

 

Archive

 

 

Newsletter Sign-up