I like “Swingtown” (2008, CBS, available on DVD and Amazon streaming) almost entirely for the way it recreates the Summer of 1976, yet it’s totally defensible as a legitimate one-season wonder on its overall merits, thanks to […]
One-season wonders (TV review): Marti Noxon breaks free from the Whedonverse to take a crack at a horror drama.
One-season wonders (TV review): Britt Robertson takes a crack at a witchy lead role in this book adaptation.
One-season wonders (TV review): Kevin Williamson returns to teen drama and adds a juicy mystery in this eight-episode series.
After “Dawson’s Creek” and before his commercial resurgence with “The Vampire Diaries” and “The Following,” uber-producer Kevin Williamson stumbled through a few interesting failures. Among them was “Glory Days” (2002, WB), which lasted nine episodes before it […]
TV shows lost to history (Review): Herskovitz and Zwick’s “My So-Called Life” achieved legendary status, but “Relativity” wasn’t so lucky.
One-season wonders (TV review): This WB series takes a crack at a “Batman”-without-Batman saga.
TV shows lost to history (Review): The short-lived “Bedford Diaries” closed out the WB network just before “Gossip Girl” became a CW hit.
“This Is Us” will soon to bring the “people living their lives” genre back to TV, and it seems to feature character/story paths distinct from each other. So I thought it would be a good […]
So I’ve finished my rewatches of all the Joss Whedon series between 1997-2010 except one – and it’s the most unusual one. “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog” (2008) is three 15-minute web episodes that add up to length […]