Politics as usual
“The Family” Thursday, March 3 (ABC) Series Debut: ABC has only launched a single winner in the 2015-16 TV season: “Quantico” (aka “Federal Beautiful Investigators,” aka “How to Get Away [...]
Read More →“The Family” Thursday, March 3 (ABC) Series Debut: ABC has only launched a single winner in the 2015-16 TV season: “Quantico” (aka “Federal Beautiful Investigators,” aka “How to Get Away [...]
Read More →You’re probably watching few, if any, Big Four (ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox and NBC) network shows via live broadcast anymore. Hell, you’re probably not even watching on an actual [...]
Read More →“Love” Friday, Feb. 19 (Netflix) Series Debut: Gillian Jacobs was always the most underrated player in “Community,” a reliable source of dark snark who functioned as a counterpoint to Joel [...]
Read More →“Vinyl” Sunday, Feb. 14 (HBO) Series Debut: “What? You thought records got played because they’re good?” sniffs American Century Records president Richie Finestra (Bobby Cannavale), explaining away his radio-payola tactics [...]
Read More →“Animals” Friday, Feb. 5 (HBO) Series Debut: The animated “Animals” comes from the Duplass brothers, the guys who brought you HBO’s “Togetherness” and many a far-less-watchable indie-flick, and this sharply-drawn [...]
Read More →“You, Me and the Apocalypse” Thursday, Jan. 28 (NBC) Series Debut: A British/American production that may or may not be the prequel to “The Last Man on Earth,” “You, Me [...]
Read More →“DC’s Legends of Tomorrow” Thursday, Jan. 21 (The CW) Series Debut: The Atom, Captain Cold, Heat Wave and other superheroes previously seen on “Arrow” and “The Flash” team up in this sorta spin-off, along [...]
Read More →“Colony” Thursday, Jan. 14 (USA) Series Debut: Set in a dystopian near-future, “Colony” stars Josh Holloway (“Lost”) as a hunky ex-FBI agent torn between aiding mysterious alien overlords’ Earth minions [...]
Read More →“Shades of Blue” Thursday, Jan. 7 (NBC) Series Debut: A gritty cop drama pitting Jennifer Lopez against Ray Liotta? Sounds like a forgotten ’90s flick you’d run across on TNT [...]
Read More →“Bordertown” Sunday, Jan. 3 (Fox) Series Debut: “It’s about time we did something about immigration — the Southwest belongs to retired art teachers and meth-lab entrepreneurs!” So begins “Bordertown,” the [...]
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