On the first two episodes of Girls season three, there’s some hugging but not so much learning.
Review
TV Tonight: Enlisted
A sweet work-Army-family comedy about brothers in arms.
TV Tonight: Community Is Back!
And this time, it’s really back.
Homeland Watch: Casualty of War
The finale to an erratic season takes a big leap. But it could be too dark for some fans, and too late for others.
The Good Wife Watch: Best Enemies
As the terrific, emotionally complicated midseason finale showed, Alicia and Will are hotter as rivals than as lovers.
You Win Or You Die: The Ruthless Beauty of Boardwalk Empire’s Finale
In Nucky Thompson’s own game of thrones, the story gets ever more sprawling, and–as the season 4 finale proved again–few people are safe.
How I Lost My Head for Sleepy Hollow
Fox’s apocalyptic drama is (American) Revolutionary, trading the dark paranoia of The X-Files for a celebration of belief and wonders.
TV—or Streaming Video—Tonight: ‘Alpha House’ on Amazon
This political satire, Amazon’s first streaming series, looks like big-time TV but plays like a cartoon.
Whip Like a Man! Five Reasons MasterChef Junior Is the Season’s Best Reality Show
Unlike so many other pint-sized spinoffs of reality competition, this cooking show improved on the original recipe.
eightysomething: Why The Goldbergs Loves the ’80s a Little Too Much
There’s a difference between making a sitcom that has pop-culture references and a making a sitcom that’s about pop-culture references.
Plateau Stage: Masters of Sex Figures Itself Out
Halfway into its first season, Showtime’s drama matures into a character story, a period piece about social change, and a sexual detective story.
TV Review: The Returned
This French supernatural series, premiering Halloween on Sundance, is a zombie tale that has brains rather than eats them.
The Good Wife Watch: This Means War
A civil war breaks out in the office, and “Hitting the Fan” proves, if there was any doubt, why The Good Wife is currently the best thing on TV outside cable