The series is a polished genre exercise with characters that feel like predigested tropes.
It’s now just a waiting game to see if this patchy episodic specimen can gradually move past its Office-inspired roots.
There’s a lot going on in “Breakage,” even if the pace remains as deliberate as the rest of the season has.
“Underdogs” is the kind of hour of television that defines shows like this, taking old ideas and making them better, making them new.
What is the formula that drives most TV series but a pleasant form of inevitability.
The constantly dilating timeline of Lost continually forces the viewer to recalibrate what they’ve already experienced.
If the United States makes it easy to follow a certain path to some form of success, it also makes it a little too easy for someone to get lost.
Castle is built on a mismatched pairing of protagonists that’s the bread and butter of most romantic comedies.
I know this is a short season, but man, the Panthers got to State really quickly.
The African veldt was never so picturesque nor its inhabitants so one-dimensional as in The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency.
One of the more enervating things about Lost is the way that it will occasionally mistake name checking, say, a famous philosopher for depth.
Yes, it has “sunshine” in the title. Yes, it has Alan Arkin as a crusty grandpa. Yes, it has a light colored van.
The season finales of Big Love often have a bit of an out-of-control feel to them.
Walt’s a man heading into uncertainty, and all the planning in the world isn’t going to change that.
The series finale is about as audacious and ambitious a piece of television as I’ve ever seen.
I know that there are many who believe the story represents a dysfunctional one-sided relationship, but I can’t help but see it as a touching mother-son story.
The argument here is deeply confusing.
One of the things that makes “Namaste” so much fun is the way it convolutes itself within the timeline we’ve already seen.
One of the things that sets Breaking Bad apart from most other drama series at its level of quality is its scale.
No matter how devoted you are to your creed (be it religious or otherwise), you’re always going to let it down.