Kyra Sedgwick’s new series, Ten Days in the Valley (ABC, Sundays, 10/9C), is a terrific showcase for her talent but not much more. By the conclusion of the series premiere, practically every character with more than two lines has some kind of secret – but there’s no point in giving everyone secrets if we don’t […]
Category: TV Reviews
Gotham Scares Up a Solid Fourth Season Premiere!
Gotham (FOX, Thursdays, 8/7C) opens its fourth season with some intriguing developments – crime is down in Gotham city and the Penguin is leveraging that in a unique way as he prepares to open his new club, the Iceberg Lounge. In a dark alley, Bruce Wayne is stepping up his efforts to make the city […]
The Orville: Earnest and Optimistic But Not That Good!
If you’re expecting FOX’s The Orville to be to Star Trek: The Next Generation what Galaxy Quest was to Star Trek: The Original Series, you will be disappointed. Rather it’s like a tenth generation VHS copy. Squint and you can see TNG characters in the faces of The Orville’s crew, and the plots are reflections […]
Marvel’s Inhumans – The IMAX Experience: Big Screen, Yes; Big Thrills, No!
Marvel’s Inhumans was shot with IMAX cameras, so it doesn’t look like a typical pilot blown up to IMAX – with all the small screen inadequacies painfully apparent. Instead, everything feels the right size, but the CG sets (the city of Attilan on the dark side of the moon) lack weight – which wouldn’t matter […]
The Defenders – Street-Level Avengers!
Netflix’s Marvel Super-Series the Defenders brings together four people who should never be in the same room together. That’s the same strategy that worked for the MCU’s The Avengers, but set in smaller, more personal ways. It takes until the last ten minutes of the third episode for Daredevil, Iron Fist, Jessica Jones and Luke […]
Stitchers Sets Up Third Season Finale with Murderous Twist!
Kill It Forward, the penultimate episode of season three of Stitchers (Freeform, Mondays, 9/8C) is one of the more diabolically twisted episodes to come from the show’s creatives. When Kirsten refuses to work for Maggie if she can’t see her mother, Maggie makes her a deal – do this one last stitch and she’ll tell […]
Stitchers – Memories Are Made of This!
The third season of Stitchers (Freeform, Mondays, 9/8C) has had its share of surprises – not the least of which was Cameron and Kristen finding out where her mother was being kept (not to mention that a big reason the Stitchers program exists is to find a way to save her). This week’s episode, Paternis, […]
Preacher – Fake God, Hitler and Viktor!
Preacher (AMC, Mondays, 9/8C) takes a couple of side trips this week as we learn more about Tulip’s past and Jesse and Cassidy discover something startling about Fake God – and that Jesse has 137 jazz clubs yet to visit. Then there’s Eugene in Hell…
Grimm – How Do We Get To Happily Ever After?
The series finale of Grimm (NBC, Fridays, 9/8C) – appropriately entitled The End – is, even for Grimm, a weird episode. Zerstörer is coming for Diana and he’s left a trail of death and destruction in his wake – and more is in store.
Imaginary Mary: Imaginary Friends Can Be Big Trouble!
ABC’s new comedy series Imaginary Mary (Wednesdays, 8:30/7:30C) marks the return of Jenna Elman to series television. This is a Good Thing because she’s a gifted comic actor with a knack for both physical humor and comic reactions. The series premieres with an episode that sets up the reason for Alice’s childhood imaginary friend, Mary […]
The Magicians – Lesser Evils Are Still Evils! Decisions, Decisions!
The Magicians (Syfy, Wednesdays, 10/9C) has been a revelation in its second season. The writing, directing and performance have all reached a higher level (and the first season was pretty fine). The characters are more nuanced; the world is deeper and even more intriguing.