SURVIVOR’S REMORSE: Saturday 9PM on Starz Previously… on SURVIVOR’S REMORSE: When basketball phenom Cam Calloway (Jessie T. Usher) signs his first giant free agency contract and moves to Atlanta, he takes his family entourage with him: cousin Reggie (RonReaco Lee), sister M-Chuck (Erica Ash), mother Cassie (Tichina Arnold), and uncle Julius (Mike Epps), along […]
As zombie shows go, Z NATION exists very far in the shadow of The Walking Dead in every way, from ratings to quality. And yet Syfy’s good-humored rip-off can be seen as the show Walking Dead fans sometimes wish that blockbuster would be: pulpier, faster and more singlemindedly splatterific, with little interest in existential […]
BACKSTROM: Thursday 9PM on FOX – Change the Channel BACKSTROM is literally FOX’s try at being CBS: the project, based on a series of Swedish mystery novels, was originally developed for the silver-haired network and a pilot was ordered, but CBS ultimately passed. FOX’s in-house studio was the show’s production company, and its creator is […]
Everyone in Banshee, Pennsylvania is a tortured soul, from its Mayor to its police officers to its waitresses and teens. That’s what gives BANSHEE a weight that goes beyond its sheer awesomeness as an action series–although make no mistake, it so consistently hits so high a bar in its set-piece sequences that there’s nothing […]
ORPHAN BLACK: Saturday 9PM on BBCAmerica In the first season of ORPHAN BLACK, it was more than enough that the series introduced us to the incredible Tatiana Maslany, a previously almost unknown actress who delivered a jaw-dropping series of performances as clones who each had separate backgrounds and personalities (from suburban soccer mom to […]
STITCHERS: Tuesday 9PM on ABCFamily Previously… on STITCHERS: Graduate student and science whiz Kirsten (Emma Ishta) has “temporal dysplasia,” a (fictional) condition in which she doesn’t experience the passage of time. Somehow this has given her a robotic personality, but for unexplained reasons it also makes her the perfect candidate for the government’s Stitchers […]
DATES: Thursday 9PM on CW – If Nothing Else Is On… CW is barely promoting its run of the 2013 British series DATES, which the network is using (presumably for a negligible fee) to fill a few hours of its summer schedule. It’s an oddity, the kind of show you might expect to find […]
RAY DONOVAN: Sunday 9PM on Showtime When a car crashes into a Los Angeles wall in the Season 4 premiere of Showtime’s sizable if somewhat inexplicable hit RAY DONOVAN, it doesn’t just crash into a wall: it crashes directly into a giant mural of the Virgin Mary. That’s the way Ray Donovan rolls, its […]