The series is a polished genre exercise with characters that feel like predigested tropes.
Caprica’s pilot is ambitious, a bit overflowing with plot threads that beg for resolution
It takes some getting used to Romola Garai as Emma, especially in the early scenes.
Inbetweeners doesn’t rise above its sitcom superficiality, at least in its first two episodes.
Life Unexpected wants so badly to pull at the heartstrings while maintaining an illusion of grittiness.
After watching the beginning of season four of Big Love, I think we can safely give up on ever having a premiere of this show that isn’t a busy and exhausting whirlwind.
It’s hard to believe that the spy comedy Chuck came so close to cancellation just a few short months ago.
The process of education has begun, which is what the film is going to be about.
One point that the script doesn’t make sufficiently clear—at least, it confused me on first viewing—is that the initial Time Lord scenes take place before the three pieces of narration in Part One.
With “The End of Time,” the Doctor Who careers of two giants of the show—star David Tennant and head writer and executive producer Russell T Davies—reach their conclusion.
David Tennant’s long goodbye to Doctor Who enters its final stretch with “The Waters of Mars.”
And now, let’s see who I can piss off this time.
In many ways, 2009 has been a year where the crazies have come out of the woodwork.
On paper, Men of a Certain Age looks like a recipe for a navel-gazing disaster.
Unless you’re an executive at NBC, it’s been a great fall season for TV.
On a whole, the new season manages to retain its depth and heart-wrenching warmth despite a sea change in its structure and characters.
AMC’s remake of Patrick McGoohan’s 1967 television cult classic The Prisoner is a convoluted mess from start to finish.
The entirety of the episode is dedicated to discussion of Mad Men’s third season.
Of course change comes for literally everyone, as news of Kennedy being shot fills the airwaves and the uncertainty moving forward becomes much more explicit.
I suspect that the children’s book this is based on is probably a charmer, and I can see why kids would love it.
The second season of Fringe has not, unfortunately, picked up where the first season left off.