Spike’s Idiot Box: Pilot Episode
I’ve been in thrall of television for as long as I can remember. When I was a child, I loved ‘Sesame Street’, ‘Our Gang’ reruns, game shows, ‘Donahue’, reruns of ‘The Brady BunchR...
I’ve been in thrall of television for as long as I can remember. When I was a child, I loved ‘Sesame Street’, ‘Our Gang’ reruns, game shows, ‘Donahue’, reruns of ‘The Brady BunchR...
For a procedural show so rooted in formula, the new sixth season of ‘Castle’ that premiered this week actually attempts to shake things up with some pretty major changes. That’s both surprising and potentially in...
Considering the many billions of dollars that Marvel’s superhero movie franchise has made and continues to make at the box office, it stands to reason that ABC’s new spin-off series ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’...
Chances are, if you’ve watched anything on CBS in the last couple of months, you’ve probably seen a promo for ‘Hostages’, the network’s limited-run (unless it’s a smash hit, of course!) series s...
At this point, it kind of seems superfluous to wax poetic or to sing the praises of the latest ‘Breaking Bad’ episode. This is the most hyped and universally praised show out there at the moment. It needs to be said, h...
Last week, you told us pretty overwhelmingly that the majority of our readers prefer to watch TV shows on large home theater screens, rather than smaller televisions, computers or portable devices. Even in this age of iPads and Go...
For weeks now, if not months, NBC has hyped ‘The Blacklist’ as its “event” series of the season, with recent ads proclaiming it to be, “THE show you’ve been waiting for,” among other hyper...
As far as I’m aware, NBC has not yet issued a formal cancelation notice for its summer series ‘Siberia’. However, considering the show’s poor ratings, I think it’s a foregone conclusion that this week...
That’s it? After a dozen episodes where believability and logic were stretched to their limits (all for the sake of entertainment), this is all we get from the season finale of ‘Under the Dome’? It’s almost...
The fall 2013 TV season has officially commenced, and here come the brand new shows. From the results of last week’s poll, Fox’s supernatural drama ‘Sleepy Hollow’ emerged as one of the front-runners for in...
‘Ozymandias’, the most recent episode of ‘Breaking Bad’, is one of the most technically brilliant and action-packed hours of television in recent memory. It may be the show’s best episode ever, despit...
One wonders if ‘Election Night, Part II’ was written with the thought that it might be a series ender for ‘The Newsroom’. The Season 2 finale has no cliffhangers, and at least two major characters wind up a...