Like other entities branded “too big too fail,” Nashville threatens to collapse under the weight of its poor investments.
It may be a slight spoiler to say that ABC’s new action drama, Last Resort, isn’t actually a show about a submarine.
A nominally progressive comedy, The New Normal has more gay jokes and regular old racism than Gallagher’s stand-up act.
Alan Ball should leave the handwringing to the kids in Twilight.
It’s perhaps a sign of Veep’s realism that the new HBO comedy feels a lot like a receptacle.
The series isn’t jaw-droppingly hilarious, but the writing is self-assured and full of punchy, Tweetable one-liners.
Ricky Gervais’s career is beginning to feel a lot like the plot of a Ricky Gervais show.
It seems a good time to ask what exactly is so fabulous about Downton Abbey that makes it so compulsively, confoundedly watchable?
Smash isn’t a musical, but a drama about the famously hard-knock, tough-luck world of the theater.
Luck is a very dense, very slow, stealthily soulful series.
At the heart of every character that Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein portray is a weird, committed, and almost unsettlingly earnest love.
Now in its third season, NBC’s Parenthood has settled comfortably into its role as a safety blanket.
If this show’s going to succeed, it’s going to have to figure out how to build a slightly more complex inner-life for its protagonist.
Laura Dern’s performance deftly encapsulates every facet of Amy’s sadness, anger, and buffoonishness.
Despite the (largely) fine performances, there’s something a little shallow about American Horror Story.
How to Make It in America dramatizes a particular cultural moment with uncommon style and a little grace as well.
It has the advantage of a veritable galaxy of stars at its disposal, but all that sparkle too often comes together as a gaudy mess.
Pan Am exists largely because of the desire for 1960s nostalgia awakened by Mad Men.
Whitney isn’t particularly insightful about the lives of the young Americans it represents.
Up All Night may just find itself the most elusive trophy of all: an audience.