In its final season, the series struggles to cook up something fresh, but it’s still hard to resist.
Happily, the writers seem willing to exploit their flawed characters, especially their layered leading man.
Welcome to the “Ruediger-light” episode of this season’s Doctor Who recaps.
The first combat episode ofGeneration Kill is analogous to lousy sex.
The plot is surprisingly simple and the story is rooted in concept and character.
There’s an old saying that, in good storytelling, action precedes explanation and commitment precedes realization.
If it all sounds like cliché upon cliché, well that’s what it is.
“Forest of the Dead” is an episode that left me so thoroughly perplexed that I had to see it several times to even begin thinking I understood it.
John Landis directs the whole thing as though it were a pleasant distraction.
The name Steven Moffat has been the stamp of quality on Doctor Who scripts over the past three seasons.
“Family Man” is the third episode of Fear Itself but should have been the first.
I’m sure I read an interview with Russell T Davies some time ago where he referred to “The Unicorn and The Wasp” as “the first comedy we’ve done.”
Imagine a Sex and the City character with Carrie’s personality and Samantha’s sex drive.
The show has always given a sense that it’s willing to dispense with vital parts of its premise for an episode or two.
There’s very few surprises in this second episode of Fear Itself.
Weeds works best when it focuses on the first two syllables of its designated genre: “dramedy.”
The tenuous human/Cylon alliance, in this moment, makes sense.
As a title, “The Doctor’s Daughter” conjures up exciting possibilities, but as an episode it leaves the viewer wanting more.
In America, anime is an at-home staple.
For network TV, the shows of violence and sexuality are striking, and the production values are above average, with the snowbound fort doing most of the work in creating a mysterious atmosphere.
After two episodes full of deliberate but pulse-quickening pacing, “Sine Qua Non” feels a little scattered.