In its final season, the series struggles to cook up something fresh, but it’s still hard to resist.
Allying with rivals to thwart a third party is the cold calculus of the city’s politicians as well.
If there’s a shot that Battlestar Galactica deploys more skillfully than any other, it’s the close-up.
One of the great conceits of tonight’s Doctor Who episode “Tooth and Claw” is the Doctor’s attempt to take Rose to see Ian Dury and the Blockheads in 1979.
And I thought they got rid of that damn hatch.
There’s enough working here to make watching a TV show about TV all the more enticing.
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While the show’s dark tone risked alienating casual viewers, the time-leap the series took in its second season finale divided fans.
Friday Night Lights is the most honest portrayal of contemporary small town life in the small screen’s history.
The dealers know the kids, and the kids know the cops.
Despite being the 10th Doctor story and the debut of the season two production block, “The Christmas Invasion” feels like a coda for season one.
Last weekend marked a dubious footnote in movie history.
Like Michael, Detective Lester Freamon bumps up against the larger forces of an organization.
Its opening credits are not an ordinary credits sequence, but a series of four short films that distill each season’s themes, goals, and motifs.
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip veers from feeling like one of TV’s best shows to one of its most mediocre, often in the same scene.
Marlo Stanfield has maneuvered to the top of the West Baltimore drug trade, and he’s executing a broad campaign to stay there.
Doctor Who isn’t just a TV show, it’s a way of life.
Yes, for real.
The slippery slope of civilization is already in place on The Wire and Simon is just out to document how each and every person survives.
The challenge of the third season is seeing if Veronica and the gang can operate within the context of a college-based noir.
On The Wire, everyone’s in school.
Varied as the street characters are, their African-American counterparts in the police department are just as individualized.