‘Haunting of Hill House’ masterfully uses horror as a template for processing life
TV review: Mike Flanagan makes an impressively assured transition to the miniseries format.
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‘Haunting of Hill House’ masterfully uses horror as a template for processing life
First episode impressions: ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ Season 4 (TV review)
“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” (9 p.m. Eastern Fridays, The CW) spends a lot of its Season 4 premiere reminding us where the story is at – and it’s at a very weird place. Rebecca (Rachel Bloom) is […]
First episode impressions: ‘All American’ (TV review)
In “All American” (9 p.m. Eastern Wednesdays on The CW), Spencer James (Daniel Ezra) gets a chance to move from gang territory to a safe neighborhood to play football, coached by a former NFL player, […]
Engrossing ‘Better Call Saul’ inches closer to the ‘Breaking Bad’ timeline in Season 4 (TV review)
Being as I haven’t reviewed or talked about AMC’s “Better Call Saul” or “Breaking Bad” in the past, I feel it is necessary to preface this review a bit. “Breaking Bad” is in my top […]
‘Valerian and Laureline’ flashback: ‘Time Jam’ episodes 31-40 (2008) (TV review)
In its final 10 episodes, “Valerian and Laureline: Time Jam” wraps up by riffing heavily on the “Star Wars” prequels, but it stands as its own thing thanks to its trademark bevy of wild ideas […]
‘Fear the Walking Dead’ lurches from bad to good to bad again in Season 4 (TV review)
“Fear the Walking Dead” (AMC) is a strange show. I’m not sure the creators have any idea what to do with it at this point. Season 1 started out as a fresh take on the […]
First episode impressions: ‘God Friended Me’ (TV review)
A year ago, I didn’t give a glowing review to ABC’s “Kevin (Probably) Saves the World,” but I did like it enough to keep watching. Even though I almost canceled it from my DVR a […]
First episode impressions: ‘A Million Little Things’ (TV review)
“A Million Little Things” (10 p.m. Eastern Wednesdays on ABC) is the least bad network newcomer I’ve reviewed so far. If the search for answers to why a guy (Ron Livingston’s real-estate mogul Jon) jumped off […]
First episode impressions: ‘Magnum P.I.’ (TV review)
CBS adds to its stable of modernized nostalgia-driven shows (see also “Hawaii Five-0” and “MacGyver”) with “Magnum P.I.” (9 p.m. Eastern Mondays), which drops the comma and trades Tom Selleck’s ‘stache for Jay Hernandez’s goatee, […]
First episode impressions: ‘I Feel Bad’ (TV review)
“I Feel Bad” meets my first requirement for a modern sitcom: It doesn’t have a laugh track. Unfortunately, I wasn’t supplying many laughs of my own during the first two episodes, which are available on NBC.com. […]