With his first HBO special, the writer-comedian disarmingly balances satire, straight comedy, and old-fashioned pathos.
Picking the five best Simpsons episodes is well-nigh impossible.
The looks of horror in Bill and Barb’s eyes come from very different places.
John from Cincinnati Recap: Episodes 7 & 8, “His Visit: Day Six” & “His Visit: Day Seven”
That was most certainly the voice of the Creator taunting the fragile Barry Cunningham in the dilapidated barroom of the Snug Harbor Motel.
Someday I wanna make a list of celebrities who’ve “admitted” to loving Doctor Who.
Insofar as doings at SC are concerned, one of the most interesting aspects of “Ladies’ Room” is how it presents Don as seriously emasculated.
There’s no justifying the exploitive nature of To Catch a Predator.
The most interesting thing about Damages is its structure as essentially two mysteries at once.
If “Good Guys and Bad Guys” didn’t hit the heights that the last four or five episodes hit, it at least moved a lot of the show’s pieces further on up the game board.
The lack of exposition in the pilot is one of its most seductive qualities.
In “The End of the World” Russell T Davies had the Doctor take Rose to the year 5 Billion to see the Earth explode.
It’s frustrating first because it’s so good and then because it seems to mire itself in the plotline that’s the least interesting on the show.
Like Coltrane’s cover of “My Favorite Things,” John from Cincinnati is an extended riff on things familiar, now made strange.
The Doctor crossing paths with William Shakespeare is such an obvious gimmick, it seems an improbability that it’s never been portrayed onscreen before now.
One of the things that makes Big Love such an engrossing show is that it’s not afraid to make its central character kind of a selfish ass.
A new album as harmless as her criticism on AI would have been more tolerable.
Thus far, David Milch and his cast have trod a fine line between the captivating and the repellent.
“The Runaway Bride” is the second Christmas special of the new Doctor Who and it packs a special punch.
The fourth episode of Big Love’s second season, “Rock and a Hard Place,” was kind of clumsy in a lot of ways.
Completion does not necessarily mean forcing the end.
Farscape without the Dominar would be like The Empire Strikes Back without Yoda.