In its final season, the series struggles to cook up something fresh, but it’s still hard to resist.
The series hit a new low this summer with its two-part Jersey Shore edition.
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.
The central question facing most members of fundamentalist religious groups or sects is how deeply they want to engage with the world.
The fences go up in the aftermath of the miracle that closed the second episode of John from Cincinnati.
The idea of living in two worlds is reflected in the storylines centered on the two teens in the Henrickson household.
If there is a master narrative plan for the show it is the excavation and unearthing of that ineffable essence that makes us human.
In some ways, “Damage Control” the season premiere of Big Love’s second season, is all about the aftermath.