‘Siberia’ 1.04 Recap: “Nothing’s Making S
Last week, I sat down to watch my recording of NBC’s ‘Siberia’, only to discover that the episode had been preempted by a William & Kate royal baby special. This is probably not a good sign for the show̵...
Last week, I sat down to watch my recording of NBC’s ‘Siberia’, only to discover that the episode had been preempted by a William & Kate royal baby special. This is probably not a good sign for the show̵...
Say what you will about ‘The Killing’ (anyone who reads these recaps knows that I’ve said plenty), but the show sure knows how to pack a wallop during the face-to-face conversations. The story might be muddled as...
We begin this week’s recap with some good news for ‘Under the Dome’ fans. CBS has officially renewed the show for a second season, which will once again be a limited-episode (probably 13) summer series. Even bett...
Finally! After a so-so season premiere and a disappointing second episode, ‘The Newsroom’ finally gets back to what makes it a great TV show in Episode 3, ‘Willie Pete’. In short, we get less of the tiresom...
I think most of us were in agreement that Terry doesn’t really count as a “major character death” on ‘True Blood’, despite what the show’s advertising and promotion may have promised us. This we...
Did anyone else notice the credits at the beginning of this week’s episode of ‘The Killing’? I was surprised to see Jonathan Demme’s name pop up as director. Perhaps that played a part in this being the bes...
There are a couple moments of unbelievable stupidity and just plain bad TV writing in Episode 5 of ‘Under the Dome’ (titled ‘Blue on Blue’), but thanks to some solid direction by Jack Bender (also one of th...
Two episodes into the new season of ‘The Newsroom’, it has become obvious that Sorkin and company are taking a somewhat different approach to telling stories. Gone – for the time being at least – is the weekly focus on...
If ‘Suits‘ is, rather indisputably, the USA Network’s best original series, then ‘Covert Affairs’ is… well, it’s not. That’s not to say that it’s the worst, but I certainly can’...
Apropos of Friday’s Roundtable post about favorite lawyer movies, last week also saw the return of my current favorite TV series about lawyers, ‘Suits’ on the USA Network. As excited as I was for the show’s...
‘True Blood’ promised us a major character death, and this is all we get?
I said in my last couple of recaps that I was taking NBC’s ‘Siberia’ on an episode-by-episode basis. This week, I’ve decided that I’m on board. While I acknowledge that the show could still turn out t...