‘The X Files’ 11.02 Recap: “Who Needs Google Wh
Free from Chris Carter’s awful writing or directing, the second episode of ‘The X Files’ this season is a small improvement over the dreadful premiere. Just a small one, unfortunately.
Free from Chris Carter’s awful writing or directing, the second episode of ‘The X Files’ this season is a small improvement over the dreadful premiere. Just a small one, unfortunately.
For their new Fox series ‘9-1-1’, prolific producers Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk (‘Glee’, ‘American Horror Story’, ‘American Crime Story’, ‘Feud’, etc.) try their hands at a genre they’ve never tackled before – the straightforwar...
If 2016’s six-episode revival of ‘The X Files’ was a so-called “limited event series,” why did it end with a cliffhanger begging for more episodes and what do we call the new season? Perhaps it’s time to give up this charade that ...
As if we don’t have enough superheroes on TV already, Fox now brings us ‘The Gifted’, an official spinoff of the ‘X-Men’ feature film universe. Even with a pilot episode directed by franchise mastermind Bryan Singer, the show comp...
Fox’s new comedy ‘Ghosted’ mashes up bits of ‘Men in Black’, ‘Ghostbusters’, various 1980s buddy-cop action movies and other obvious influences, and then largely shoves them to the background so that its two stars can riff off eac...
That Fox’s TV spinoff of ‘The Exorcist’ turned out to be pretty good was a major surprise last year. That the show got renewed for a second season despite poor ratings was an even bigger surprise. Can the series continue to bring ...
It looks like Batman is finally beginning on ‘Gotham’. The fourth season opens with both a schedule change to Thursday nights and a story arc none-too-subtly titled ‘A Dark Knight’. The question left unanswered is how long the sho...
Seth MacFarlane’s new live-action sci-fi series ‘The Orville’ gets just about everything right to look and even sound like a spot-on ‘Star Trek’ spoof. Inexplicably, the creator of ‘Family Guy’ then completely forgot to add in the...
‘Gotham’ has worn me down. I’m exhausted by it. Frankly, I found a lot of this season a slog to get through. When I sat down this week to watch the season finale, I was both relieved that I’ll be getting a break from the show, and...
As we come up on the season finale of ‘Gotham’, I feel like even the characters on the show are confounded by the plotting. More than one of them this week questions the motivations or logic of another, before ultimately shrugging...
For a guy who likes to go around judging everyone else, ‘Gotham’ former police captain Nathaniel Barnes (Michael Chiklis) really ought to look in a mirror sometime. Leather padding, buckles and black eyeliner? You sir, are guilty ...
A lot of old characters come out of the woodworks to pay ‘Gotham’ another visit this week. I can’t say that I’m happy to see all of them.