Anytime a show kicks off it’s new season with a graphic scene of someone getting their penis chopped and being replaced with a crow – no, really, it’s exactly what you think it would be, you know you have just left all sense of reality and logic behind. WGN’s Salem returns this week with a […]
Category: TV Reviews
Babylon Is a Killer Workplace Satire!
SundanceTV continues its acquisition of quality scripted dramas with Babylon (Thursdays, 10/9C) – a workplace drama set in London’s Scotland Yard. Created by Danny Boyle and starring Brit Marlin and James Nesbitt, it deals with the pressures of police work at all levels – culminating in the top job – and the struggle to maintain […]
TV Recap: Gotham: Rogues Gallery Spoilers!! #Gotham
After a pretty busy and sometimes shaky start, is Gotham ready to come back strong for the 2nd half of their freshman year? The first episode of the new year has a promising title “Rogues Gallery.” Are we finally going to get some forward momentum going?
Galavant – Spamalot Via Disney!
Galavant (ABC Mondays, 8/7C) is a weird little hybrid of a show – a musical about a knight, his One True Love and an evil king. In its complete disregard for anachronism and its willingness to go for the silly, it feels like a clever fusion of Monty Python and Disney.
Ascension Is A Lifeboat For Humanity!
Syfy’s three-night event series Ascension (9/8C) premieres tonight and continues through Wednesday. It’s the story of a generation ship that was launched in the early 1960s, taking a selection of humanity to a new home on a planet orbiting Proxima – because the ship’s creator/architect was convinced that the Cold War was about become hot […]
A Chasing Life X-Mas – Drama and Hope in One Package!
Chasing Life has quickly become one of my weekly go to shows and as usual ABC Family has yanked a program off the air with a ridiculously long two and three month breaks. The pauses aren’t as bad now thanks to their 25 Days of Christmas promotion that features holiday themed episodes of all our […]
The Fosters X-Christmas Special – The Kiss that Can’t Be Missed! #TheFosters
Recently, I discovered ABC Family’s The Fosters on Netflix and immediately fell in love with the multi-cultural family drama about an interracial lesbian couple’s struggles raising a large family of adopted kids. It has become one of my new obsessions. After a drama filled mid-season cliffhanger, the show returns this week, as part of ABC […]
The Librarians Brings a Sense of Wonder and Pure Fun!
TNT has resurrected The Library and Librarian Flynn Carsen. Thankfully, the two-hour series premiere – The Librarians and The Crown of King Arthur/The Librarians and The Sword in the Stone –hew closer to the delightfully odd first TNT movie, The Librarian: Quest for the Spear than its sequels in terms of quality. If the first […]
The Mentalist: Everybody Knows…
The Mentalist (CBS, Sundays, 9/8C) returns with Patrick Jane and Teresa Lisbon now a couple – though they’re keeping that on the down low at work. Not that they’re fooling anybody – except, possibly, Cho…
TV Recap – Gotham Ep9: Harvey Dent
After last week’s lame installment I’m expecting a barn burner episode. This week is all about people meeting. We meet Harvey Dent and Bruce meets Selina Kyle.
Constantine: A Feast of Friends – More Scares, More Consistency!
NBC’s Constantine showed a lot of promise – even if the premiere (which we gave a B) was long on mood but short on scares. The intervening three episodes ranged from moments of genuine scares and wit to moments that showed more than a hint of softening from the comics – necessary for it to […]