Rob Thomas’ ‘Cupid’ (1998-99) hits romance bullseye
TV shows lost to history (Review): Rob Thomas’ 14-episode series deserves a spot on the short list of great shows about romance.
Comedy
Silverstone’s ‘Miss Match’ (2003) deserved better verdict
TV shows lost to history (Review): Alicia Silverstone’s bid for a post-“Clueless” TV hit deserved more than 17 episodes.
‘Blood Drive’ brings grindhouse style to TV
First episode impressions (TV review): “Blood Drive” captures the glorious B-grade grit and fun.
Ricky Gervais’ old ‘Office’ humor still lands in ‘Life on the Road’ (Movie review)
Following up on BBC’s “The Office” – which aired back in “Two Thousand and cough-cough” (actually 2001-03) – Ricky Gervais finds there’s still plenty of room to pound the joke into the ground in “David Brent: […]
16 years before ‘Riverdale,’ there was ‘Josie and the Pussycats’ (Movie review)
The Archie Comics gang debuted in 1941 and still hold their place as American high school archetypes. They made the leap to cartoons in the ’60s, to a TV movie in 1990 (“To Riverdale and […]
‘The Mindy Project’ has a place among the great workplace sitcoms (TV review)
Sitcoms aren’t usually the best genre to binge-watch, as they tend to not have the dramatic stakes or surprises that make you want to jump right into the next episode. Often, sitcoms work well as […]
‘Powerless’ taps into the funny side of living in a superhero world
First episode impressions (TV review): “Powerless” finds the funny side of living in a superhero world.
Hailee Steinfeld shines as self-centered teen in ‘Edge of Seventeen’ (Movie review)
“The Edge of Seventeen” is the latest entry in the “teenage girls who are so obsessed with their dream of a perfect life that they make reality out to be worse than it really is” genre. […]
First episode impressions: ‘No Tomorrow’ (TV review)
“No Tomorrow” (9 p.m. Tuesdays on The CW) has an out-there premise similar to “Last Man on Earth” and “The Good Place.” Awkward, pretty Evie (“The L.A. Complex’s” Tori Anderson, occasionally slipping into her Canadian accent) […]
First episode impressions: ‘The Good Place’ (TV review)
Exhibit A in the case that network TV is dying is the bevy of reboots that no one asked for, and Exhibit B arrived Monday in the form of NBC’s “The Good Place” (which will move into […]