The series is a polished genre exercise with characters that feel like predigested tropes.
It’s clear that the creative forces behind Aqua Teen are still on top of their game.
Lost recognizes culture, particularly pop culture, as the primary means for understanding the world today.
Every time 24 reveals its textual weave, it does still manage to achieve a genuine, almost pornographic thrill.
The show embodies the brittle, belittling daytime awkwardness of our dead-end corporate jobs and mind-numbingly mundane relationships.
“Gravedancing” squanders the dramatic potential set up by the last episode’s conclusion.
Caprica seems vaguely ashamed of its sci-fi roots.
Unlike “The Constant,” it’s mostly a table-setting episode.
The show proves that a gift for angular one-liners and comedic ideas won’t necessarily transcend the dull mediocrity of most cable-based primetime.
Watching Dollhouse over these past few weeks has been a strange, almost schizophrenic experience.
It’s clear that the old Williams is itching to get out, and that she’d be much better off on HBO or even basic cable.
The show effectively homes in on that hope-filled effervescence historically associated with the idealized American dream.
In some ways, the star of the show is neither Gervais nor Stephen Merchant.
Debra J. Solomon’s vision isn’t terribly ambitious, but she compensates for her lack of complexity with an unusually likeable animating style.
Hard not to feel let down after last week’s opener, sure, but hard to be surprised when “Kate” is in the title of the episode.
Battlestar Galactica and Caprica’s creative force Ronald D. Moore takes the directing reins with this episode, and one can feel the dynamic really begining to jell.
Survivors’s real villain isn’t the virus, or the top-secret medical team hinted to be experimenting with it, but other humans.
Past Life’s plots peddle redemption with less subtlety than a typical episode of Touched by an Angel.
Temple Grandin stays true to its subject: observant, clear-eyed, and remarkable.
It’s all falling into place in a lot of fun ways, most particularly with this new Locke, or as I am going to call him from here on, Dark Locke, after his Man-in-Black heritage.
Last week’s Caprica pilot has been available to watch in one form or another for over a year, so its TV premiere felt a bit anticlimactic.