With his first HBO special, the writer-comedian disarmingly balances satire, straight comedy, and old-fashioned pathos.
Friday Night Lights makes a notable return to form with an episode that sees a number of storylines converging as the writers’ plan for the rest of the season starts to come into focus.
The Wire’s street characters were busy as ever this week.
The Wire has never reduced its stories to a soundbite and this season is no different.
Compared to a lot of fans and commentators, I think I’ve been pretty charitable toward the second season of the show, but charity has its limits.
By the end of “Unconfirmed Reports,” all of the pieces for The Wire’s final season are on the board.
With the game out of the way and their coach headed for the unemployment line, it’s a safe bet that we’ve seen the last of the Laribee Lions story arc.
Maybe I wasn’t alone in thinking the show is the most irresponsible, exploitive, and reprehensible program on television, or perhaps people just don’t read our TV section.
Each season of The Wire has introduced us to a different Baltimore institution.
David Simon, the creator of The Wire, likes to take a few episodes each season to set his stage.
I have some mild reservations about where Riggins’ storyline is going, but no matter what, I’m really looking forward to seeing Taylor Kitsch step up as an actor.
For some reason, terms like “outlaw director” are the buzz-du-jour when it comes to Japanese directors.
Neon Genesis Evangelion exists as a way to tell you it is okay to be watching anime.
Dexter in its second season is bolder and stronger than almost any other drama on the dial.
After being MIA for two weeks, Jason Street returns with what may very well be the dumbest plot point the show has ever asked the audience to swallow.
Ned has very interesting (albeit unenviable) powers, but he’s not the most interesting character on Pushing Daisies.
Due to the striking Writer’s Guild, episode 11 of Heroes’s second season may be the last we see of the show for quite some time.
“End of Days” brings Torchwood’s premiere run to a mostly satisfying conclusion.
As the title suggests, this week’s episode is all about the relationships, a focus that’s established before the end of the teaser.
It was a depressingly mundane hour of Heroes this week, as the show’s massive fluctuations of quality week-to-week continued.
This episode features the largest chunk of exposition from Jack since the pilot.