Spring 2012 Review: Bent
Another review for a show no one has seen, or will see, making us wonder why NBC even bothers putting the show on air without even trying to get people to watch it. Amanda Peet is Alex, a newly single...
View ArticleSpring 2012 Review: The Firm
The Firm is the sequel to the mid-90s film based on a John Grisham movie which no one asked for or needed, but that is here anyway. The pilot is a double episode, so it was a pretty much a...
View ArticleSpring 2012 Review: Awake
The science fiction – police procedural genre is a limited one to be sure. Once, in this space, I hailed the original UK Life on Mars as a paragon of the genre. Awake is a television’s latest play...
View ArticleSpring 2012 Review: GCB
GCB begins with our protagonist, Amanda Vaughn, finding out that her husband, who has embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars from investors (this embezzlement trope has to have been in at least...
View ArticleSpring 2012 Review: Missing
The pilot opens with main character Becca Winstone (Ashley Judd) finishing her run while her husband and young son are shown in Europe about to come home. We know approximately when this is because,...
View ArticleSpring 2012 Review: Unsupervised
It’s looking like a three strikes and you’re out situation for new animation in the 2011-12 primetime television season. The fall started us off behind in the count with Allen Gregory and Napoleon...
View ArticleSpring 2012 Review: House of Lies
House of Lies is about a group of consultants. Props here to the idea of using consultants as the basis for a show; there has never been any show focusing primarily on consultants that I can think...
View ArticleSpring 2012 Review: I Just Want My Pants Back
MTV comedy for the MTV generation – well I guess the MTV generation is about 40 by now, but you get the idea. Young people. Partying, sex, booze, etc, etc. Our main character is a young New Yorker,...
View ArticleSpring 2012 Review: Veep
Some shows have forms of comedy that are very difficult to explain the concepts behind, while some shows have types of comedy that are far easier to describe. The basic ideas behind Veep, I think are...
View ArticleTaking another look: New Girl
I’m ready to admit it. New Girl is a good show. I’ve consistently rated it highly amongst the new shows of this year, but generally with the stipulation that it had the potential to be very good,...
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