You know the drill: too many season debuts, not enough time. Here’s your space to offer your morning-after critiques of the various premieres, returns and other TV shows of Thursday night, including:
* the season premieres of …
Office Watch: California Role
Spoilers for last night’s The Office below:
That was encouraging. I am not nearly ready, after one episode, to declare that the retooled, post–Steve Carell The Office has solved its problems. Without Michael Scott as its …
Dead Tree Alert: Terra Nova; Plus, What Is "Family TV," Anyway?
In this week’s TIME comes my disappointed review (subscription required) of the two-hour pilot of Terra Nova, which premieres Monday. This is a good time to repeat the caveat that a review is not a prediction of ratings: I will …
TV Tonight: Person of Interest
Particularly when you have only a pilot to go on, reviewing a new TV series can be more like describing a forked path, and guessing which way each turn could lead. This was how it was this year with, for instance, 2 Broke Girls, …
The Morning After: Up Another Night
Amid the crush of new fall-TV reviews, the premieres of returning shows tend to get shortchanged, and here at Tuned In I’m no exception, so I’ll give you this Morning After post to talk about what you thought of, for instance, last night’s double shot debut of Modern Family. (I will say this: if the premiere of Revenge that followed it …
What Is The X Factor’s X Factor?
It’s premiere night on Fox, and the new season of the network’s big singing competition opens with assaultive graphics (BIG! METAL! LETTERS!) and a lot of bombast. The announcer promises us that this coast-to-coast talent search …
R.E.M. TV: They Stood in the Place Where They Lived
Word of warning: for the next day or two, those of us who attended college in the ’80s and ’90s are going to be insufferable. The news has come out that R.E.M., after a three-decade run, are breaking up. Get ready for the reminiscences: this is an unprovable thesis, but R.E.M.’s music was especially intimate and inward-looking for a …
The Morning After: A Night to Remember? Plus, Who Has the Best and Worst U.S. Accents?
Deadline work kept me from posting this Morning After until afternoon (hey, it’s still morning on the West Coast!), but that means I’ve had time to see the overnight ratings in the meantime. It was a big night for New Girl, which …
Glee Watch: Back to Basics?
Preparing for Glee‘s season 3, the producers stressed repeatedly that they would be easing up on the stunts (musical and casting) and getting back to the basics of their show. Which raises a couple of questions: what are the …
ABC’s Revenge: Are You Ready for Some Class Warfare?
Earlier this week, President Obama put forward a deficit-reduction plan that, pointedly, involved raising taxes and closing loopholes for the wealthiest Americans. Republicans, as they often have when facing a proposal that picks …
The Morning After: Waitresses and Waltzes
It was a big night of debuts and returns last night: now it’s your turn to tell us all what you thought—about the waitresses of 2 Broke Girls, the cocktail waitresses of The Playboy Club, the return of Dancing with the Stars or …
Monday Night Sheen-a-Thon: Ashton Moves In, Charlie Moves On
During the Great Charlie Sheen War of 2011, there was a lot of attention on Two and a Half Men as a business — how much it cost, how much it made, how many it employed — and not as much on it as a TV show. Watching its …
TV Tonight: 2 Broke Girls, Playboy Club
Tonight brings the debuts of two network premieres, CBS’s 2 Broke Girls and NBC’s The Playboy Club, which I covered in my roundup in this week’s TIME of series focusing on female characters. It’s a busy season, and neither pilot …