"Television is a goddamned amusement park."
Watching the pilot of Mulaney was not unlike going to see your crush perform at a talent show and realizing that they take too much creative advice from their friends. John Mulaney is incredibly likable. He is the kind of comic who manages to tell a slightly dirty story but remains self-deprecating and adorably affable. …
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Last week, people (myself included) went crazy over the premiere of ABC’s How to Get Away with Murder. It was easily the most solid premiere of a lackluster fall television season, and it certainly helped that Academy Award nominee Viola Davis was steering the ship. Can it sustain its mystery and intrigue for the entire …
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How to Get Away with Murder is the best new show of the season. Shonda Rhimes has built an empire on hour-long dramas. Grey’s Anatomy just started its 11th season, and Scandal is always one of the most talked about shows online. Both have their rabid fan bases, but people dismiss them as being pulpy, …
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People at NBC must really love Debra Messing. For eight seasons she played interior designer Grace Adler, and the role won her an Emmy and a legion of fans. After playing Grace, however, she never found the same devoted audience again. Messing earned good reviews for USA’s The Starter Wife, but she returned to NBC …
Fox’s Red Band Society could easily be mistaken for a Ryan Murphy show. It looks like a teen comedy-drama, but instead of being set in a divisive choir room, it takes place in the pediatric wing of a hospital. Comedy and chemo? Life lessons and eating disorders? While some may roll their eyes at the …
In big budget Hollywood space station dramas, there is usually a scene where our hero (be it Bruce Willis or Ben Affleck) walks in slow motion as triumphant music plays. A voiceover detailing valor and bravery can sometimes be overheard as these people walk, and Halle Berry gets to do a little bit of it …
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Ah, the penultimate episode. It’s the entry near the end of an ambitious science fiction show that can make or break a fledgling series. Will Extant be able to pack in enough secrets to broaden their audience for the finale next week? Things seem to be lining up for a big bang within the first …
At the beginning of this week’s singular episode of Extant, Sparks is on the run with his reconciled wife and their daughter. Nothing like a shape-shifting alien baby offspring to bring back the family! When Yasumoto’s men are sent to retrieve the baby, it uses its control to force one of the soldiers to take …
The idea of a behind-the-scenes look at Saved by the Bell was more thrilling than skipping your last class before a long weekend. I was a huge fan of the Saturday morning high school comedy-drama, so I sort of ignored the fact that Lifetime was the network in charge of resurrecting the likes of Zack …
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Last week, CBS “treated” us to a 2 hour Extant special. It was so special that they felt the need to pull a double feature on us again this week. Yay? I expressed my desire to see this freshman season come to a close, but it appears it just keeps going and going. At the …