The series is a polished genre exercise with characters that feel like predigested tropes.
“Meat” is a relationship story, ignoring entirely the typical Torchwood theme of how interacting with the alien reveals our inhumanity.
Of course, McNulty won’t evade punishment if Bunk has anything to say about it.
In an effort to keep things fresh, this latest season has thus far thrown a few noticeable cogs in the wheel, even by Aqua Teen standards.
Guinea Pig is minimal budget filmmaking with incredible effects.
With each successive episode of The Wire’s final season, it seems, fans have become more firmly split into two camps.
I love how Torchwood can take a fracture in time that threatens to undo our reality and use that crisis to frame a story about love and sacrifice.
In principle, I’m not against a story involving Jason becoming a father, but in this context it leaves a lot to be desired.
Two months after the crash of Oceanic 815, all aboard are found dead in the wreckage in a deep trench near Bali. Or not.
Sarah Connor Chronicles brings to mind a minefield in its alternation between embarrassment and nuance.
I doubt many folks would disagree if I described the narrative momentum of The Wire’s fifth season as freight train-esque.
After the entertaining fluff of “Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang,” season two’s follow-up effort hits hard.
When Tyra seeks advice from her mom about the issue, her mom’s blunt words are one she clearly should have taken as a warning.
With Lost’s fourth season running only eight episodes, any rescue looks unlikely.
You may wonder where this column has been if you’re one of the poor souls who dares read it—or if you’re my mother. Hi mom!
When Torchwood’s second season debut opens with a cliché-ridden car chase, you can’t help but wonder if the show runners are trying too hard.
From beginning to end, it’s jammed with scenes that exemplify everything people watch the show for.
Friday Night Lights makes a notable return to form with an episode that sees a number of storylines converging as the writers’ plan for the rest of the season starts to come into focus.
The Wire’s street characters were busy as ever this week.
The Wire has never reduced its stories to a soundbite and this season is no different.
Compared to a lot of fans and commentators, I think I’ve been pretty charitable toward the second season of the show, but charity has its limits.