‘Penny Dreadful’ 2.01 Recap: “You Can’t C
As much as I enjoyed Showtime’s horror series ‘Penny Dreadful’ last summer, I’ll admit that I hadn’t paid much attention to its return date until I happened to spot my DVR recording a new episode on S...
As much as I enjoyed Showtime’s horror series ‘Penny Dreadful’ last summer, I’ll admit that I hadn’t paid much attention to its return date until I happened to spot my DVR recording a new episode on S...
Did the Daenerys Targaryen storyline on ‘Game of Thrones’ finally get interesting again? It’s been a while.
‘Game of Thrones’ has so many characters that, even three episodes into the new season, we’re still catching up with some we haven’t seen in a while. In most respects, a lot of little things happen in this ...
As expected, ‘Game of Thrones’ catches up this week with some characters who didn’t make the cut for the season premiere. Throughout most of its storylines, the dominant themes in this episode are failure and rej...
HBO’s brilliant political satire ‘Veep’ is back for its fourth season. Considering how last year ended, shouldn’t the series consider a title change?
In these days when so much television programming is dominated by mindless and repetitive crime procedurals, it’s kind of amazing that a show as labyrinthine, ambitious and often difficult as ‘Game of Thrones’ ha...
HBO has a habit of developing half-hour comedies (“sitcom” isn’t quite the right word) by indie filmmakers who like to blur the line between comedy and drama. Some stick while others don’t. The network̵...
In the series finale of ‘The Newsroom’, Will McAvoy gives up being a news anchor and joins a Country-Western band! Well, that’s exactly what it may have felt like to viewers who tuned in late to the episode. As s...
The penultimate episode of ‘The Newsroom’ turns out to be a rather mixed bag, with some good and some not-so-good subplots, plus a shocker of an ending that I’m still not sure how I feel about.
One of my favorite things about ‘The Newsroom’ was the idea that the show would take major real-life news stories and provide “hindsight” commentary (although not for the characters) on the events. However,...
After opening the season with two strong episodes, it’s perhaps no surprise that this week’s entry of ‘The Newsroom’ is a little weaker. However, it’s still a good episode that continues the major sto...
Despite not having anything to do with a historical news story, nor even featuring any scenes of characters delivering an on-the-air report or commentary, the second episode of the final season of ‘The Newsroom’ is ano...