In its final season, the series struggles to cook up something fresh, but it’s still hard to resist.
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.
Mad Men ends its first season on one hell of a high note, with what is probably the series’s most Sopranos-esque episode yet.
The episode’s weakest material concerned the Bennett family, still stuck in suburbia.
Kennedy and Nixon, in the context of this episode, represent dueling visions of America that have been dividing our country for more than 200 years.
With the sixth episode of its debut season, Torchwood’s identity crisis continues.
The actors bring authenticity to what is otherwise a hysterical, Dynasty-style vision of Cuban-American experience.
The Tyra/Landry scenes, I’m pleased to report, are about as good as they could be.
Overall, “Kindred” struck a worryingly dull note, slowing plot development to a crawl and keeping the overall fun quotient pretty low.
The long-awaited second season premiere of The Boondocks indulges in all of the show’s worst tendencies.
“Small Worlds” presents an undeniably affecting story. The problem is, it has practically nothing to do with Torchwood.