These shows prove the marathon-watching juggernaut’s concern for both quantity and quality.
It should come as no surprise that Game Change essentially unfolds as a backstage drama lightly peppered with some forgettable inside baseball.
There’s no getting around the fact that this week’s episode of Luck was overstuffed with exposition.
What makes for better television: a good crime procedural or an ambitious psychiatric drama?
After the emotional high points reached in last week’s installment of Luck, it’s only natural that this week’s episode feels a bit like a come-down.
Like the character himself, a slave who rose up to defy an entire nation, Spartacus has a lot going against it.
As season three of Justified reaches the halfway point, things are starting to escalate in a hurry.
Milch-speak, as it’s referred to, is made more impenetrable in Luck than it is in his period-accurate Deadwood.
Ricky Gervais’s career is beginning to feel a lot like the plot of a Ricky Gervais show.
Some things never change.
It seems a good time to ask what exactly is so fabulous about Downton Abbey that makes it so compulsively, confoundedly watchable?
There’s something incredibly strange, frantic, and amazing about Dewey stumbling his way through Lexington trying to raise the money to buy back his own kidneys.
These horses aren’t just lucky talismans; they also possess a purity of spirit that rehabilitates many of the show’s jaded characters.
A lot of talk regarding season three of Justified has centered around whether the show could successfully replace Mags Bennett.
The River has a style unlike anything else on television, thanks to an ironclad devotion to its found-footage ethos.
It’s in this episode where one is first able to grasp how the different permutations of fortune have washed the show’s ensemble ashore.
Smash isn’t a musical, but a drama about the famously hard-knock, tough-luck world of the theater.
With “Harlan Roulette,” the full potential of season three is starting to show itself.
In Luck, the majestic thoroughbreds shine as they stand backlit by the sun.
Luck is a very dense, very slow, stealthily soulful series.
The case-of-the-week A-plot of “Cut Ties,” the second episode of Justified’s third season, doesn’t have much meat on it.