The true-crime docs here expose the rot at the core of many of our venerated institutions.
“End of Days” brings Torchwood’s premiere run to a mostly satisfying conclusion.
As the title suggests, this week’s episode is all about the relationships, a focus that’s established before the end of the teaser.
It was a depressingly mundane hour of Heroes this week, as the show’s massive fluctuations of quality week-to-week continued.
This episode features the largest chunk of exposition from Jack since the pilot.
It’s unfortunate that Heroes is starting to pick up real momentum just as its strike-shortened second season comes to an end.
This is a perfectly servicable episode of Friday Night Lights, accompanied though it may be by a faint whiff of filler.
The intersection of the alien and the human is front and center in “Combat,” as disaffected young men seek meaning, Fight Club-style.
Heroes takes a turn for the dull again with a wrenchingly uninteresting super-flashback.
“Out of Time”, gorgeous throughout, ostensibly tells the story of three individuals lost in time thanks to a temporal anomaly caused by the Cardiff Rift.
The more I write about this episode, the more impressed I am with the amount of characterization that was packed in.
Heroes finally kicked into gear on Monday with its seventh episode of the season.
It plays as if an episode of Doctor Who wandered off and got lost, only to find itself somehow on Torchwood.
With Coach Taylor back where he belongs, at home with Tami and at the helm of the Panthers, the show serves up its most season one-line season two episode yet.
“The Line” is evidence of the lack of progress the show has made since returning in September.
This is an exploration of the human character, unfolding in unexpected ways in a unique context.
So far, the new Bionic Woman seems unable to find its footing.
It’s rare to see a Panther game at the top of an episode, and perhaps rarer still for one to take up so little screen time.
After a brief resurgence in energy and fun last week, Heroes’s second season takes a real dive with its fifth episode.
The divisive Landry-Tyra plotline recedes into the background for a week as the Panthers take to the gridiron at last for their first game of the 2007 season.
This week’s cautionary tale falls short in spite of its interesting themes and compelling execution.