Your home for entertainment
Horrible people skills when talking to strangers. Incredible insights to solve a mystery. Complicated relationships with all those close to him. If you think you’ve seen this character before, you’re probably right. In yet another take on a Sherlock Holmes-type, Will Trent from the new ABC show of the same name is a mix of […]
In a global crisis called “The Emergency,” who are you going to call? No, not the Ghostbusters, but instead a group of misfit orphans who form a team that may just be intuitive enough to stop a worldwide panic. That’s the basic premise of the TV adaptation of “The Mysterious Benedict Society,” (Season 1) which […]
“It’s a need to know world… they like their secrets,” the police say about the CIA as an investigation unfolds in the new Dan Brown thriller The Lost Symbol on the Peacock Network. But the only secret worth pondering so far is how and why they couldn’t make this story more compelling. The premise is […]
The fear of taking an elevator ride is apparently one of the most common fears among Americans and yet there’s no official phobia attached to it. While some call it a “form of claustrophobia,” there are people who aren’t claustrophobic that still fear elevators. So I am going to call it Elevatorphobia. When I heard […]
Where’s Roma Downey when we need her? In the second episode of season two, “A is for Angel,” our team’s primary task involves studying and assessing a recently converted parishioner who believes he is channeling the Archangel Michael. Bishop Marx (Peter Scolari) asks them to determine if he is possessed by angelic forces, demonic forces, […]
Evil is back. Yes, after enough real-life problems that we’ve faced in the past eighteen months while Evil has been off the air, it’s great to lose ourselves to the fictional and psychological thriller. But where should we start? To be possessed or not to be possessed, that is the question. While we’ve been teased […]
She is portrayed as a woman locked in a house, unable to make her own decisions, travel freely, or calm the fire from the tabloids outside. And often, she has no one (save fans) to protect her. I typed that opening a few weeks ago after watching The New York Times Presents Framing Britney Spears. […]
For a show that already seemed refreshingly content on making Walker’s partner Micki Ramirez into a genuine co-star, the series’ fourth episode, “Don’t Fence Me In”, truly helped Micki shine and rightfully take her place as an equal. After being called by a local sheriff to a Texas oil well, Walker and Micki chase down […]
While dark and gruesome usually aren’t in the lexicon of older-skewing dramas on CBS, recent additions like Evil (CBS) and Jordan Peele’s The Twilight Zone (CBS All Access) have opened up some previously uncharted waters. Clarice, the Silent of the Lambs reboot, seems to fit the trend. But instead of a psychological thriller, Clarice seems […]
Britney Spears’ 2001 ballad “I’m not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman” opens with a verse that includes “But now I know that life doesn’t always go my way.” Sadly, that seems to be an understatement and foreshadowing what was to come for her. Many fans see Britney Spears now like the singer in that […]