Clik here to view.
Spring 2015 Review: CSI: Cyber
Police must love cop shows. Nothing glamorizes the institution more than detectives and officers fighting the good fight, always cracking the case, and locking the bad guys up for good. While this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Spring 2015 Review: Dig
I don’t know much about the Book of Revelations and Judeo-Christian end-of 0he-world theories, but I know enough to recognize when they’re being alluded to. I read the Michael Chabon book The Yiddish...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Spring 2015 Review: Weird Loners
The loose premise for this 30-somethings-hanging-out comedy is that four mid-30-somethings that haven’t settled down while their friends and colleagues all have, because there’s essentially something...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Spring 2015 Review: Allegiance
In the wake of the brilliant The Americans, weak facsimiles seem to become pouring onto TV. First, there was unsuccessful ABC spy miniseries The Assets, and now there’s NBC’s Allegiance. Like The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Spring 2015 Review: Daredevil
Marvel, which seeks to continue its world domination, and Netflix, which seeks to grow its library of hit TV shows, made a smart decision with Daredevil, a classic but underutilized Marvel character,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
End of Season Report: Justified, Season 6
Justified is a story about the hold the past maintains on the present, and the ability or lack thereof of its characters to break away from a place and a people that are embedded so deep within them...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Spring 2015 Review: Other Space
Other Space is a Yahoo! Original (or a Yahoo! Screen original, or whatever they’re calling it – I’m not quite sure about the Yahoo lingo yet) comedy about a group of inexperienced crew venturing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
End of Series Report: Mad Men
As a television viewer and fan writing a television blog, I’m more or less obliged to write at least a few words about Mad Men and the Mad Men finale. I don’t have as strong feelings as I’d like to,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
I Don’t Really Get David Letterman
In the wake of David Letterman’s last few shows, the winding down of the career on Late Night television that lasted an incredible 33 years, writer after writer, celebrity after celebrity, fan after...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Game of Thrones’ Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Decision
I’ve read the A Song of Ice and Fire books, and as a book reader, I often find myself comparing and contrasting choices made in the show with those in the book, sometimes agreeing with the decisions...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Spring 2015 Review: American Odyssey
American Odyssey is a conspiracy thriller set in the present post-9/11 world of Middle Eastern Islamic extremist terrorism. It’s kind of a cross between Homeland and Rubicon, and since most people...
View ArticleClik here to view.
End of Season Report: iZombie, Season 1
iZombie has an almost laughably gimmicky high concept premise. Protagonist Liv has her life together; great fiancé, about to start on a promising medical career. Then, all of a sudden, she becomes a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Spring 2015 Review: Bloodline
Bloodline is a new Netflix show from creators Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler, and Daniel Zelamn, the people behind the underrated FX show Damages. Damages came right before FX really hit the big time...
View ArticleClik here to view.
End of Season Report: Game of Thrones – Season 5, Part 1
There was a lot to chew on in this season of Game of Thrones, as bad things continued to happen to good people and bad people alike, and there was more and more divergence from the books, even as the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Spring 2015 Review: A.D.: The Bible Continues
I’m a non-believing Jew, so A.D.: The Bible Continues is obviously not geared towards me. Still, this is on NBC, rather than some niche cable channel, so with that disclaimer I’ll dive into attempting...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reviewing My 2014-15 Predictions: ABC
Well, there’s no point in making predictions if you’re not willing to revisit them later and see just how wrong you were. Now that the final decisions are in, let’s review how I did. ABC next. My fall...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reviewing My 2014-15 Predictions: CBS
Well, there’s no point in making predictions if you’re not willing to revisit them later and see just how wrong you were. Now that the final decisions are in, let’s review how I did. CBS now. My fall...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reviewing My 2014-15 Predictions: NBC
Well, there’s no point in making predictions if you’re not willing to revisit them later and see just how wrong you were. Now that the final decisions are in, let’s review how I did. We’ll start with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reviewing My 2014-15 Predictions: Fox
Well, there’s no point in making predictions if you’re not willing to revisit them later and see just how wrong you were. Now that the final decisions are in, let’s review how I did. Fox up next. My...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Spring 2015 Review: The Comedians
The Comedians tries every tack in the modern sitcom toolbox to get laughs, but along the way proves that it while it uses all these tools, it imitates but doesn’t really quite pick up on what makes...
View Article
