The series is a polished genre exercise with characters that feel like predigested tropes.
The episode maintains the high quality displayed by the first half of this two-parter, “The Time of Angels.”
Two cops, one washed-out show.
The marvelous pre-titles sequence is a classic five minutes of Doctor Who.
Simon spoke with Slant about the challenges and rewards of telling stories from the inside out.
Every Doctor sooner or later has to face the Daleks.
The 90-minute episodes are so well crafted that the mini history lessons rarely seem forced.
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is very much a response to Neon Genesis Evangelion.
While it’s nowhere close to brilliant, Happy Town’s unpredictability makes it watchable.
The setting is impressively strange right from the opening shot.
There is something inherently off-putting about a Friday-night suicide sitcom.
Party Down is a hilarious tribute to the broken-down yet ever-striving characters that sit on the Hollywood sidelines.
Welcome to the first of a series of weekly recaps for the latest season of Doctor Who, now being broadcast on Saturday nights by BBC America.
This episode was worth my time, I’ll tell you what.
This intensely amusing show outlines the struggles we face as we try to shape ourselves into some abstract idea of adulthood.
By the third episode, the show has developed so much character that even simple glances are steeped in meaning.
If it’s going to be a lark, why doesn’t The Tudors at least continue to entertain us by playing around with the truth even more?
Ugly Americans’s interesting setting is just sort of there for the sake of being weird.
It’s everyday childlike things mixed with perverse absurdities that keeps South Park grounded and funny.
This supposed idyll of an alternate 2004 will not, in fact, be a simple and tidy and happy all over place.
And you thought the silent Mexican hitmen were scary.