Water Cooler Podcast: Episode 8 – PGA, SAG, DGA Awards; Pilot Season; What We’re Watching

The new AwardsDailyTV Water Cooler Podcast is on the air! Join the ADTV gang as they talk about the encouraging relative diversity of the recent TV award winners and nominees, FOX’s new hit Empire, HBO’s amiable Togetherness, the home stretch of Parks and Recreation, How to Get Away with Murder, and finally a look at …

Review: Togetherness s01e03 “Insanity” – Men in Spanx

After three episodes of its eight-episode first season, it seems pretty clear where Togetherness is headed and what it’s going to be. I don’t mean that as a criticism. Unless it changes gears in subsequent episodes (and there’s no reason why it can’t, but I hope it doesn’t), this is a show built less on …

Review: Togetherness – s01e02 “Handcuffs”

The second episode of Mark and Jay Duplass’ Togetherness finds the HBO comedy drama further settling into the amiable if bittersweet groove it began charting in the series premiere. This is a show of modest character beats and human moments sprinkled with plenty of humor and the occasional emotional peak. The episode’s title refers to …

Review: Togetherness “Family Day”

The approach to 40 can be a strange, middle-ground kind of time, awkwardly poised between young and old. You don’t feel as old as 40 seemed to be when you were 20, but for many, the dreams of a future are starting to curdle into the failures of the past and there is less time …