SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, throw a couple of your gods on the fire, and gather your friends around to watch last night’s season premiere of Game of Thrones.
“A comet means one thing, boy: dragons.”
I have …
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Dead Tree Alert: Veep, Women in Power and Game of Thrones’ Clash of Queens
In the current print edition of TIME magazine, my new column (subscription required) is about how–while women candidates may not be as prominent in 2012 as in 2008–TV has become chock-full of women exercising political power. I …
Mad Men‘s Return: Surprise!
NOTE: Because AMC is not sending out advance screeners of Mad Men this season, I won’t be doing postairing reviews of each episode — the show needs time to be reviewed right, and I’m too often on deadline for magazine pieces …
The Morning After: Handyman Special
The “hangout comedy” is becoming a common enough fixture on TV these days that we should probably come up with a working definition of it. Broadly speaking, I think of it as a laid-back comedy about adult friendships—sometimes …
New Girl Gets It Together
Since having the best comedy pilot of the fall season, New Girl has been one of those shows that I’ve liked… but. But Jess was irritating. But the show was too forcefully trying to make us love Zooey Deschanel’s naif cuteness. …
The Morning After: Without a Paddle
ABC was good enough to send me all eight episodes of The River before I reviewed it. So while I was able to give a sense of how insane the show became–enjoyably, to me, but your nautical mileage may have varied–spoiler …
The Morning After: My Secret Burger Addiction
Every TV critic, however prolific, has a list of secret-favorite TV shows: series that they watch, enjoy, but whether for reasons of schedule or workload or just not having much to say, rarely or never write about.
Bob’s …
TV Weekend: Last March of the Penguins?
Why do people love penguins so much? This weekend, Discovery’s Frozen Planet begins counting the ways.
TV Weekend: GCB
Since I posted earlier about my column on HBO’s movie Game Change, about Sarah Palin, we might as well make this Things People in Red States Might Be Offended By Day. Sunday night, ABC premieres GCB, a tongue-in-cheek soap set in …
TV Tonight: Awake
What’s more depressing than a primetime drama about a man mourning the death of his wife? Maybe a primetime drama about a man mourning the death of his child. And what’s more depressing than either of those two? A primetime drama …
The Morning After: A Wedding. And a Funeral?
I owe Parenthood an apology, not that it does anyone any good at this point.
Oscar Watch: Expect the Expected
After Eddie Murphy pulled out of hosting the Oscars, the Academy called in veteran past host Billy Crystal to step in. The aim, presumably, was to have a reliable hand who could be counted on to get up to speed quickly, someone …
Glee Watch: The Bully Becomes the Bullied
Spoilers for last night’s Glee below:
I will say this for the way Glee handled Karofsky’s suicide attempt in “On My Way”: the beginning of the episode was a very effective 15 minutes or so of television. The problem: it was …