In its final season, the series struggles to cook up something fresh, but it’s still hard to resist.
Battlestar Galactica does not do flashbacks well.
As “The Impossible Planet” drew to a close and “The Satan Pit” begins, two deaths occur: A pair of redshirts take it for the team.
The U.S. Office retained the basic setup until this season.
Heroes is a popcorn-fueled look into the comic-book universe minus the usual slew of acrobatic fight scenes.
The quartet of eighth-grade boys at the center of The Wire have their own way of dealing with bad police.
“Change the course” often means more of the same, only more of it.
On the mythology front, Galactica took a few tentative steps forward, mostly onboard the Cylon basestar.
Structurally and dramatically the two-parter occupies the same space as “The Empty Child” two-parter did last season.
Prison Break treats its many, many characters as chess pieces, nothing more, even as it tries to deepen and expand them to no avail.
Even the aging players have a settled sense of place.
Ed Bradley, best known as a 60 Minutes contributor, was certainly cool by any standard.
Battlestar Galactica knows how to pose a moral dilemma, but Friday night’s episode did it less gracefully than usual.
“The Idiot’s Lantern” is the halfway point of the second season of Doctor Who, and as such there’s a transitional feel to the proceedings.
Once upon a time, Kate was a favorite character of mine.
Carcetti is keen to meddle, but knows what to leave be.
For the better part of “Torn,” Battlestar Galactica seemed to almost turn into Lost.
The cliffhanger was a staple component of classic Doctor Who, and many a fan has bemoaned the new series’s self-contained storylines eroding this old standby.
Call it a coincidence, call it karma, call it the weirdest grand design imaginable.
Jericho treads on ground we’ve already covered and should at least know how to handle more originally.
Dr. Gregory House returns for a third season in the show that bears his name and, at first, he’s surprisingly less of a curmudgeon.