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.
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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…
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 […]
ReCap: Gotham S1 Ep2, Selina Kyle
After a very strong pilot, Gotham returns for its second episode and already you can start to see a little pattern forming in the show’s initial formula. It’s too early to tell if this will make the show a little too predictable or not.
Resurrection – Yup, They Went There!
During its eight-episode first season, Resurrection (ABC, Sundays, 9/8C) set up a situation reminiscent of the French series (soon be adapted for A&E), The Returned. Following the return of Jacob Langston, who died years ago, the town of Arcadia, Missouri, soon found others returning as well. Agent Martin Bellamy of Immigration, who brought Jacob home […]
NCIS: New Orleans Swings Like I Knew It Would!
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.
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 […]
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 […]