‘Believe’ Pilot Recap: “I Don’t Like Kids
Alfonso Cuaron, you’ve just won the Oscar for directing ‘Gravity’. What will you do next? “I’m going to direct a mediocre and derivative TV pilot for a fourth-place broadcast network!”* Sigh.
Alfonso Cuaron, you’ve just won the Oscar for directing ‘Gravity’. What will you do next? “I’m going to direct a mediocre and derivative TV pilot for a fourth-place broadcast network!”* Sigh.
‘The Chicago Code’ is one of the most painful cancellations of this now-ending TV season. Although the show never quite reinvented the police drama, as some of the early promotion may have promised, it was a very solid...
I haven’t given much coverage to ‘The Chicago Code’ here in the blog since the first couple of episodes. I’ve been continuing to watch all along, however. This seems like as good a time to check in with the...
When I recapped the pilot episode of ‘The Chicago Code’, I mentioned that the show seemed to have potential, but lacks the moral ambiguity and complexity of Shawn Ryan’s most famous series, ‘The Shield̵...
You remember that speech in ‘The Untouchables‘ that Sean Connery gave Kevin Costner: “They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That’s the ...