The winter television hiatus in the United States makes for an excellent opportunity to watch old favourites — thanks to the short days and bitter nights, the prospect of curling up on the couch...
Poor Kate Walsh. The brilliant comedian and fantastic actress continues to get wasted on television shows that are either far beneath her skills, or incredibly short-lived. She first hit the TV radar...
AMC committed a cardinal sin this week — the network spoiled its own show. In a television environment where delayed viewing, time differences, and pirating mean that people watch television at...
Sweeps Week is here, as in what one would think should be one week of programming designed to lure in advertisers by pumping up ratings with thrilling episodes of television, but what’s actually...
The minute the familiar opening montage of Twin Peaks flashes across the screen as I settle back to watch the pilot, I can feel my eyes tingling with nostalgia. The music swells, and we’re swept...
After reading this review and when you sit back to watch the box set of “Gomorrah The Series,” take some time out to remember just how much some writers have to suffer for their art. Back in 2006...
In the next six years, we are facing down nearly 40 superhero films, according to announcements from the major studios. That is, to put it mildly, a lot of superhero movies. But the superhero...
The show opens with a vista that’s achingly familiar for me — though I know it’s shot in British Columbia, that great stock replacement for the Pacific Northwest, it feels like home. The...
Is Outlander ‘the feminist answer to Game of Thrones,’ as some people seem to be billing it? That would depend, one supposes, on which definition of feminism is being used. If ‘feminism’...
Showtime’s The Affair is generating a great deal of buzz on the fall television schedule, as a show that might provide an intriguing narrative approach and some insight into the way we view men,...
