Johannes Roberts’s prequel ultimately remains buried by its indifference to unchecked corporate power.
It hits its Red State beats so hard that its target audience likely won’t notice they’re being not only condescended to, but insulted outright.
The film deposits its heroine and everyone in the audience looking toward her for image-maintaining guidance back at square one.
Desite its title, the show feels trapped in the past, a slave to the conventions of the ’70s British series on which it’s based.
1600 Penn quickly announces itself as a slapsticky, family-driven alternative to HBO’s restlessly scathing Veep.
Brian Dannelly’s Struck by Lightning makes an inadvertent but hugely compelling pro-bullying argument.