‘The Player’ Pilot Recap: “Welcome to the House”
NBC sure spent a lot of money on the TV adaptation of Robert Altman’s 1992 Hollywood satire ‘The Player‘, but I’m not sure that the writers understood what the movie was about. Ohhhhhh… It’s not that...
View Article‘Heroes Reborn’ Pilot (a.k.a. ‘Heroes’ 5.01) Recap: “How’s That for the Worst...
How desperate must NBC be to bring back ‘Heroes’ this season? Did anyone miss the show in the five years it’s been off the air? The network describes ‘Heroes Reborn’ as a “retooling” rather than a...
View Article‘The Blacklist’ 3.01 Recap: “You’re Crazy, Old Man”
I wouldn’t say that I’ve ever really been in love with ‘The Blacklist’. Even at its best, it’s a pretty dopey show – and the second season was not its best. Nevertheless, the series is just...
View Article‘Grimm’ 5.01 Recap: “It’s Just a Bad Deal All Around”
As ‘Grimm’ enters its fifth season on NBC, I’m not really sure how the show has lasted this long. It ran out of steam a couple seasons back, and Season 4 in particular was pretty weak. I’ve stuck with...
View Article‘Shades of Blue’ Pilot Recap: “You Don’t Want to Be This Kind of Cop”
NBC’s new cop drama ‘Shades of Blue’ has several strikes against it right off the bat. For starters, it stars a pop star/Reality show judge few people take seriously as an actress anymore. The pilot...
View Article‘Timeless’ Pilot Recap: “Make Your Own Future”
From the incessant ads for it, NBC’s new time travel adventure ‘Timeless’ looked like it would be either one of the most promising new TV series of the fall or one of the cheesiest. Do these two things...
View Article2017 Golden Globe Winners
In most years, the final award given out at the Golden Globes (Best Motion Picture – Drama) is the most important prize of the evening and the strongest Oscar predictor. This year, however, was all...
View Article‘Grimm’ 6.01 Recap: “You’re Not a Ghost, Are You?”
NBC has been promoting the new season of ‘Grimm’, which started on Friday, as the show’s last. Quite frankly, this is not a series that needed to be on the air for six seasons. It only really had...
View Article‘Powerless’ Pilot Recap: “I Wish We Worked for Batman”
Setting a workplace comedy inside the DC superhero universe, featuring regular human characters whose job is to deal with the fallout of supervillain battles, is kind of an ingenious idea. I just wish...
View Article‘Grimm’ Series Finale Recap: “Dude, We Are Taking You Down”
Even as a fan, I don’t think ‘Grimm’ really needed to run for six seasons. Somehow, the show survived its rocky periods and was granted the opportunity for a proper send-off with a concrete ending. The...
View Article‘Reverie’ Pilot Recap: “We’re Just Getting to the Weird Part”
About a decade ago, Sarah Shahi had a breakout role opposite Damian Lewis on NBC’s short-lived but fondly-remembered detective procedural ‘Life’. She returns to the network now to headline the sci-fi...
View ArticleManifest Pilot Recap: “I Think We’ve Taken Impossible Off the Table”
For months now, the NBC ads have proclaimed Manifest to be the most anticipated new TV series of the year, as if repeating a lie often enough will make it true. Now that it’s here, is the destiny of...
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