Month: June 2014
In the opening moments of “Heads Will Roll,” the season premiere of CBS’ “Under the Dome,” a church bell slammed into Chester’s Mill’s infamous dome with a deep gong. It was almost the show’s way of reintroducing itself, and saying, ...
Penny Dreadful wraps up its premiere season, failing to fully deliver on the immense promise seen in earlier episodes. The season finale, titled Grand Guignol, gave us everything a season finale should: it resolved the tying thread of the Mina ...
To those in the know, the combination of acclaimed author Tom Perrotta and writer Damon Lindelof is most likely a giant flashing red beacon warning those seeking cleanly wrapped-up narratives to flee far away. Perrotta’s most popular recent novels (Little ...
The anticipation for the second season of Netflix’s break out (pun intended?) hit, Orange is the New Black was palpable. The burgeoning online distributor debuted several series last year (including fellow hit House of Cards), but Orange’s success was the ...
I’m not a hard core Doctor Who nerd. I’m more what you’d call a tourist. In fact I took a long break between David Tenant and Matt Smith and I’m currently getting caught up on the last few Smith episodes. ...
CBS’s summer trash perennial Big Brother returns tonight after leaving an unforgettably bad taste in the collective mouths of viewers last year. For the uninformed, the competitive reality show houses an assortment of mostly white, mostly young, mostly attractive contestants ...
Penny Dreadful’s penultimate episode underscores one irrefutable fact about the show: it belongs and has always belonged to one woman, Eva Green. Following in the footsteps of other great actresses in female-driven horror series (Jessica Lange, Angela Bassett, and Kathy ...
With Stephen Colbert stepping away from his Colbert Report persona to take over for Letterman soon, there’s an impending vacuum of caustic (and utterly necessary) satire and criticism of the news media on TV. While it hasn’t quite hit its ...
Steven Soderbergh quietly continues to prove that the Internet made way too big a deal out of his so-called “retirement.” With his early 20th century New York hospital drama ‘The Knick’ set to drop on Cinemax later this summer, Deadline ...
I could nitpick here and there, but for the most part I have to admit these awards are pretty decent. Winners at the top of the list. BEST DRAMA SERIES Breaking Bad (AMC) (WINNER) The Americans (FX) Game of Thrones ...