The series is a polished genre exercise with characters that feel like predigested tropes.
It took me a while to pinpoint what it was about this episode that rubbed me the wrong way, but I finally did.
The episode is probably going to piss off a lot of fans, especially coming this late in the show’s run.
Angels With Dirty Faces go to Mumbai. On steroids.
Tolerance and empathy are the primary themes of The Real World: Brooklyn.
I suspect when all is said and done that the history of Lost will cleave it pretty neatly into two different shows.
Not since HBO’s The Wire has a show juggled so many conflicting and diverse issues like race, money, and class with such staggering insight.
The third season premiere episode of Big Love is, in many ways, a microcosm for the series itself.
The United States of Tara is an interesting misfire for a network that seems dedicated to making interesting misfires.
Battlestar Galactica gets a reputation for being a dark show, and some of that is well-deserved.
I’ve always thought of Coach Taylor as a smart guy, but man, what a boneheaded move during Friday night’s game.
Nankin discusses TV direction in general, directing Battlestar specifically, and some of the other shows on TV he admires.
Lie to Me’s science gimmick is sure to wane thin soon into its short first season, a truth that doesn’t bode well for a series renewal.
As it is in rock ‘n’ roll, so it is in comedy: Quiet is the new loud.
I started out 2008 as a paid TV critic with a happily stable and sedate personal life that rarely edged into something all that exciting.
Bedtime Stories is an entertaining comedy, but not a great one.
The writers have acknowledged our new understanding of Patty as an enigma in order to tease us with what seems to be a process of humanization.
As often happens, the documentary is better than the feature film.
David Gregory is a total toady.
The critics hated, hated, HATED this movie. And it was number one at the box office two weeks in a row. With good reason.