When someone Pride knows is murdered, it gets personal; meanwhile Brody needs a permanent address and LaSalle has a friend who might be able to help on the series premiere of NCIS: New Orleans (CBS, Tuesdays, 9/8C), Musician Heal Thyself. The series debuts as a colorful, satisfying variation on a familiar theme.
Category: TV Reviews
The Mysteries of Laura Is Two Shows In One – Neither Very Good!
On The Mysteries of Laura (NBC, sneak preview 11/10C, then Wednesdays 8/7C) following America’s Got Talent), which wants to be both a procedural drama and a wacky domestic sitcom, Laura is a crackerjack homicide detective, a crack shot and a bit of a Type A personality. She’s a female Sherlock Holmes insofar as solving crimes but […]
Z Nation Zips Along In Prime B-Movie Mode!
If The Walking Dead is A-list, Z Nation (Syfy, Fridays, 10/9C) is definitely B-movie goodness. A fresh twist in the zombie movie/TV show sweepstakes, it finds a group of ordinary people turned survivors attempting to get the one known survivor of a zombie attack to a secure lab in California so a cure can be […]
It Takes a Legend To Play Legends!
Legends (TNT, Wednesdays, 9/8C) stars Sean Bean as Martin Odum, possibly the best undercover operative the FBI has ever had – though this evaluation comes one FBI psychiatrist where three others have determined he should never be allowed to go into the field again. Problem is, he is this close to finding out who’s the […]
Sharknado 2: The Second One Delivers Exactly What A Fan Wants
The folks at SyFy Channel have always tried a tad too hard to come up with that one, cheesy, cult classic that they could milk for years to come. They had Dinosaurs, Tarantulas, Big Foot, Piranhas, and more. It took the old standby Sharks to give them their hearts desire. Who knew Sharknado would take […]
Matador: Spies, Soccer and Secrets!
El Rey’s Matador (Tuesdays, 9/8C) is the second original scripted series for the network and catches the cachet of the World Cup, the idea of the 1% taking over the world, and good old espionage. It’s a bit like a current take of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. with a Hispanic Napoleon Solo. It’s smart, fun […]
The Bridge Crosses Many Bloody Paths!
The second season of The Bridge (FX, Wednesdays, 10/9C) gets underway this evening with no perceptible loss of complexity and intrigue. In the first ten minutes, several distinct arcs are set up some seeming to have potential for connecting, some seeming more tangential – though all will, no doubt be woven together in some way […]
Extant: Great Premise Developed Re-e-a-l-l-y Slowly!
Extant (Wednesdays, 9/8C) is the new big summer series for CBS. It makes much of two unaligned ideas – astronaut Molly Woods returns to Earth after a thirteen-month solo mission, pregnant; her husband, John Woods, has developed an artificial intelligence in human form called humantics (human-robotics, get it?).
Orphan Black Raises the Stakes Exponentially!
During the season finale of Orphan Black (BBC America, Saturdays, 9/8C), Mrs. S orders a mysterious someone to make a car bomb. That is not the explosive that the finale, By Means Which Have Never Yet Been Tried, delivers (maybe in season three…). No, there’s something much, much bigger – a revelation that seems inevitable […]
Recap: Orphan Black Ep 9 – Shit Gets Real!
Last week Allison and Donnie finally came together as a dangerous couple in love, we saw Dyadic dealing with the fallout from Leekie’s murder, Cosima is really sick, Rachel gets her dad back and we found out that the clones are barren by design and that Sarah was a mistake, we met a transgender clone […]
TV Recap: Orphan Black Ep 8 Recap!
Crap really hit the fan last week, now we have to deal with the fallout. What’s going to happen now that Dr. Leekie is no more and Donnie knows the truth? Cosima is getting sicker and more desperate, she’s testing Kira’s DNA for a possible cure. We haven’t seen Helena in a few weeks. Sarah […]