In its final season, the series struggles to cook up something fresh, but it’s still hard to resist.
What seemed so promising at the end of Rome’s last season seems to have lost its way in these new episodes.
The season, so far, has given some of the show’s less-heralded players some good material to work with.
Look at how much sex there was in ancient Rome! And how much violence!
The season’s most ambitious gambit is its attempt to get the viewers to shift their loyalties, ever so briefly, to the side of the Cylons.
Extras is proof positive that Gervais and Merchant have much more to contribute to our popular culture for some time to come.
It remains to be seen if Dirt will truly be an equal opportunity satire or just another actor-produced attack on the paparazzi.
The first four hours of 24’s sixth season premiere misplace what makes the series so effective.
Masters of Horror wraps up its second season the way it originally planned to close its first: with an English-language entry from Japan.
The idea that Rose’s travels with the Doctor in some bizarre way brought her family back together is potent stuff.
The show has always shown a surprising willingness to just jump into situations in medias res when it suits the story
A suburban neighborhood. A different time. A major televised event. Missing residents. An abusive father. Alien abduction.
Full disclosure: My personal politics are half Socialist and half Libertarian.
Season four has provided an almost circular feel to the series, and in a recent interview, Ryan Murphy seemed unsure as to the possibility of the series continuing.
How I Met Your Mother is a sterling example of the hybrid sitcom.
The Wire’s landscape is thick with men almost desperate to reach back and snatch some kid from the vortex.
The episode was, for one, a throwback to the series’s more action-packed first season.
Dear Russell T Davies. What the hell do you think you’re doing to Doctor Who?
Guaraldi’s sunniness comes through in the Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack.
Bono and the Edge are here as they always are, speaking for the four-man collective that is U2.
Carver is one several cops and ex-cops taking an extracurricular interest in individual kids on the street.