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Manifest Pilot Recap: “I Think We’ve Taken Impossible Off the Table”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 26 Sep 2018 12:00:31 +0000

For months now, the NBC ads have proclaimed Manifest to be the most anticipated new TV series of the year, as if repeating a lie often enough will make it true. Now that it’s here, is the destiny of the show to be the next Lost or, perhaps more likely, will it just get lost...

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‘Reverie’ Pilot Recap: “We’re Just Getting to the Weird Part”

Josh Zyber — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 12:00:09 +0000

About a decade ago, Sarah Shahi had a breakout role opposite Damian Lewis on NBC’s short-lived but fondly-remembered detective procedural ‘Life’. She returns to the network now to headline the sci-fi drama ‘Reverie’. Sadly, the show is extremely lame. Shahi plays Mara Kint, a former police hostage negotiator who developed a bad drinking habit after...

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‘Grimm’ Series Finale Recap: “Dude, We Are Taking You Down”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 16:00:39 +0000

Even as a fan, I don’t think ‘Grimm’ really needed to run for six seasons. Somehow, the show survived its rocky periods and was granted the opportunity for a proper send-off with a concrete ending. The series finale quite possibly lives up to the show’s title more than any other episode ever did. It’s a...

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‘Powerless’ Pilot Recap: “I Wish We Worked for Batman”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 13:00:33 +0000

Setting a workplace comedy inside the DC superhero universe, featuring regular human characters whose job is to deal with the fallout of supervillain battles, is kind of an ingenious idea. I just wish that NBC’s ‘Powerless’ were a lot less… I don’t know… sitcom-y. Credit where it’s due, Marvel Comics actually had the idea first,...

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‘Grimm’ 6.01 Recap: “You’re Not a Ghost, Are You?”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 13:00:17 +0000

NBC has been promoting the new season of ‘Grimm’, which started on Friday, as the show’s last. Quite frankly, this is not a series that needed to be on the air for six seasons. It only really had enough ideas to last about three. However, the fact that this final season will only run half...

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2017 Golden Globe Winners

Josh Zyber — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 19:00:49 +0000

In most years, the final award given out at the Golden Globes (Best Motion Picture – Drama) is the most important prize of the evening and the strongest Oscar predictor. This year, however, was all about the Comedy/Musical category, which wrapped up about 20 minutes earlier. The movie of the night was clearly Damien Chazelle’s...

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‘Timeless’ Pilot Recap: “Make Your Own Future”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 13:00:41 +0000

From the incessant ads for it, NBC’s new time travel adventure ‘Timeless’ looked like it would be either one of the most promising new TV series of the fall or one of the cheesiest. Do these two things have to be mutually exclusive? The show has some notable talent behind-the-scenes, including creators Eric Kripke (‘Supernatural’)...

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‘Shades of Blue’ Pilot Recap: “You Don’t Want to Be This Kind of Cop”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 14:00:13 +0000

NBC’s new cop drama ‘Shades of Blue’ has several strikes against it right off the bat. For starters, it stars a pop star/Reality show judge few people take seriously as an actress anymore. The pilot episode is also directed by a washed-up filmmaker who hasn’t made a movie anybody wanted to see in nearly twenty...

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‘Grimm’ 5.01 Recap: “It’s Just a Bad Deal All Around”

Josh Zyber — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 17:00:07 +0000

As ‘Grimm’ enters its fifth season on NBC, I’m not really sure how the show has lasted this long. It ran out of steam a couple seasons back, and Season 4 in particular was pretty weak. I’ve stuck with the show this far, but it’s passive entertainment for me. I often let it get backlogged...

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‘The Blacklist’ 3.01 Recap: “You’re Crazy, Old Man”

Josh Zyber — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 16:00:09 +0000

I wouldn’t say that I’ve ever really been in love with ‘The Blacklist’. Even at its best, it’s a pretty dopey show – and the second season was not its best. Nevertheless, the series is just entertaining enough to keep stringing me along. Now it’s back for a third season, which brings a big format...

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‘Heroes Reborn’ Pilot (a.k.a. ‘Heroes’ 5.01) Recap: “How’s That for the Worst Power Ever?”

Josh Zyber — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 19:00:26 +0000

How desperate must NBC be to bring back ‘Heroes’ this season? Did anyone miss the show in the five years it’s been off the air? The network describes ‘Heroes Reborn’ as a “retooling” rather than a reboot, but as near as I can tell it’s just more of the same. Several major cast members have...

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‘The Player’ Pilot Recap: “Welcome to the House”

Josh Zyber — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 17:00:34 +0000

NBC sure spent a lot of money on the TV adaptation of Robert Altman’s 1992 Hollywood satire ‘The Player‘, but I’m not sure that the writers understood what the movie was about. Ohhhhhh… It’s not that ‘The Player’. It’s something completely different that uses the same title because the hacks who created it couldn’t think...

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