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When my colleague, Kieran Freemantle, tweeted me earlier this week, asking me to name the best television series set in each of the 50 states (sorry Washington D.C.), my first thought was, “Oh my gosh. 50 is a lot of TV shows and that sounds like a lot of research.” But the more I noodled […]
It’s that time of year again. The days are short, the temps are falling (at least here in Chicagoland), and it’s nearly the end of 2022. Which means that it’s time for my annual Top Ten TV Shows list! It was a heck of a year for television. Network comedies roared back into prominence with […]
When I last wrote about Evil, it was back in its first season – when the series was a solid, if not remarkable, drama on CBS. I’ve spent the last few weeks binging the second and the first half of the show’s third season and I’m here to tell you that the series is in […]
It was quite the year for freshmen network comedies in that two – Abbott Elementary and Ghosts – managed to get Millennials to do something we haven’t done regularly in years: Watch network TV. Okay, if you’re like me, you’ve watched the first seasons of these two excellent shows (bonus points if you started Abbott Elementary […]
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 […]
It’s brooding and heavy. It’s about loss and redemption. It’s about putting together a family. It’s about changing perceptions of policing. It’s about immigration and acceptance. Wait—did I submit the wrong review? Am I really describing Walker? The CW’s Walker (Thursdays at 8 pm EST) is about as similar to the original CBS series, Walker […]
It struggles to stay consistent. It’s a work in progress. And yet you get a strong feeling it might be considerably better as the season goes on. That accurately described the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in their first game of the season last fall. And it also accurately describes the pilot episode of The Equalizer, the […]
Huh. That’s my general reaction to the two-part third season premiere of Star Trek: Discovery. While some of the show’s problems have been alleviated by the 900+ year time jump to the future, the series still relies too much on style over substance when it matters the most. First the good: Discovery continues to have […]
James Bond is a character many people know and love. He has led one of the most popular entertainment franchises which included films, novels, and video games. However, one of the least known adaptations was the 1954 version of Casino Royale for the Anthology series Climax! This version of Casino Royale sees James Bond (Barry Nelson) assigned to a […]
Another week, another disappointment. Enzo got the ball rolling by winning a ball-rolling Head of Household competition that was rather mundane and boring and nominated two players America actually liked, Kaysar and Kevin. Kaysar was still reeling from losing Janelle, his half-duo partner (and America was still in mourning for Janelle). So we already knew […]