HBOs The Comeback made its own comeback tonight after roughly 9 years off the air. The result? A mixed bag that shows some signs of life. Starring the brilliant Lisa Kudrow as washed up actress Valerie Cherish filming a reality show during her comeback, the show was largely panned on first release but later reached …
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The Walking Dead: The Man, the Myth, and the Mullet
The latest episode of The Walking Dead dedicates itself to the story of the survivors who left for Washington, DC. As it often does when the survivors split up, the series dedicates individual episodes to each side, leaving tiny cliffhangers each week. The structure is what it is. I find it no more exasperating than …
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Orphan Black Season 3 Teaser
Teaser for Orphan Black season 3
Sneak Peak: Girls Season Four
HBO has released the preview for the fourth season of Girls in which Hannah (Lena Dunham) moves to Iowa to participate in the Iowa Writer’s Workshop while remaining entangled with Adam (Adam Driver). “Honestly, I feel like I’ve made the right decision, which is a totally new sensation for me,” Dunham says while eating grapes as a …
NBC Circling ‘A Few Good Men’
According to an article originally published in Variety, NBC is considering a live staging of Aaron Sorkin’s play A Few Good Men. Assuming NBC can handle the truth, the production is anticipated to be the next offering in NBC’s lucrative partnership with producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron. Zadan and Meron produced NBCs Emmy-nominated The …
Netflix Looks for its Game of ‘Snicket’
As originally reported in today’s Variety, online powerhouse Netflix has purchased the rights to the phenomenally successful series of children’s books A Series of Unfortunate Events, written by Daniel Handler under the pseudonym Lemony Snicket. According to the article, Netflix will partner with Paramount Television on the series. Paramount released the 2004 film Lemony Snicket’s …
Quick Hit: Homeland
There’s this great new show on Showtime called Homeland. You may confuse it with another Showtime series also called Homeland that ended its third season last year on a very sour note. To make matters worse, they both star the same actress, Claire Danes, playing Carrie Mathison, a comically unhinged CIA agent. But the similarities …
The Walking Dead: Beth gets the Shaft
The latest episode of The Walking Dead provides the answer to a question on everybody’s mind: what happened to Beth at the end of season four? Turns out, the answer (and the episode) was surprisingly dull. Beth was rescued by a group of survivors holed up in Atlanta’s Grady Memorial Hospital, and Beth (and the …
Thursday Night Frights: NBC Sitcoms Killed
The Grim Reaper’s sythe fell on All Hallow’s Eve, and it fell on NBC’s freshman comedies Bad Judge and A to Z. As reported in The Hollywood Reporter, each show will finish its current half-season order of 13 episodes before shuttering. In fact, both shows are still filming the remainder of their seasons, which must …
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Quick Hit: Gracepoint
Halfway through the FOX crime drama Gracepoint, one thing is abundantly clear: the stretch marks are starting to show. Even without the knowledge that the original UK series, Broadchurch, was a leaner 8-episode run, the meandering pace of the American version wears thin. Intricately detailing the investigation of a murdered boy in the small titular …