All 22 episodes of ‘Gilmore Girls’ Season 6 (2005-06), ranked
TV review: Despite some Bizarro-Rory episodes, Season 6 is a respectable bow-out by the Palladinos.
Television
‘Walking Dead’s’ ‘Slabtown’ delivers perfect treatise on evils of taxation (TV commentary)
“The Walking Dead” (8 p.m. Central Sundays on AMC) rarely gets mentioned when lists of “most libertarian TV shows” are compiled, but that might change when the series ends and we see the full picture. Season […]
‘Gracepoint’s’ ‘Who killed Danny Solano?’ not quite as fun as ‘Who killed Rosie Larsen?,’ but still fun (TV commentary)
“Gracepoint” (8 p.m. Central Thursdays on Fox) is not in the same league as “The Killing.” But as it invites us to uncover “Who killed Danny Solano?,” it is tapping into some of the “Who killed […]
Can we all agree that locking people in train cars and killing and eating them is wrong? (TV commentary)
Sunday’s episode of “Talking Dead,” which followed the fifth-season premiere of “The Walking Dead” (8 p.m. Central Sundays on AMC), asked viewers if they thought Rick’s gang was justified in mowing down everyone in Terminus. Giving me […]
First episode impressions: ‘Star Wars Rebels’ (TV review)
“The Clone Wars” it ain’t. But to be fair, “The Clone Wars” wasn’t the great show we now know and love in its formative episodes in 2008, so perhaps I should give “Star Wars Rebels” a few […]
First episode impressions: ‘Play It Again, Dick’ (TV review)
In the ongoing push to take “meta” to new and absurd levels, “Play It Again, Dick” (Tuesdays, CW Seed) joins the likes of “The Comeback,” “Episodes” and “Extras” (or James Van Der Beek playing “himself” on “Don’t Trust […]
‘Gotham’ thrillingly brings Bat-verse back to live-action TV
First episode impressions (TV review): The “Batman” prequel gets off to a great start under the direction of Danny Cannon.
All 22 episodes of ‘Gilmore Girls’ Season 5 (2004-05), ranked
TV review: Everyone behaves like jerks toward everyone else as “Gilmore Girls” moves firmly into the Rory-and-Logan era.
Fall TV 2014: ‘Gotham’ and a handful of other shows worth checking out (Commentary)
A year ago, I announced that the lineup of new fall shows was the worst in two decades, and although I ended up liking (and now mourning, since they were canceled) “Almost Human” and “Super […]
The shows of summer – from ‘Fargo’ to ‘Garfunkel and Oates’ (TV commentary)
In this age of hook-laden, high-concept summer TV shows, it’s not how you start, it’s how you finish. “Fargo” (FX) maintained its momentum all the way through its first season, culminating in Tom Hanks’ son satisfyingly blowing […]