BELIEVE: Sunday 9PM on NBC Previously… on BELIEVE: 10-year old Bo Adams (Johnny Sequoyah) is one special little girl, with superpowers that include telekinesis and the ability to foretell the future and read people’s minds. Her powers, like those of so many Chosen Ones before her, can be used to help, but they also […]
RESURRECTION: Sunday 9PM on ABC Previously… on RESURRECTION: 8-year old Jacob Langston (Landon Giminez) wakes up one morning in a Chinese rice paddy–32 years after he died in Arcadia, Missouri. That’s a mystery, and so are the circumstances of his death, which occurred when he plunged into the local river after his aunt, contrary […]
THOSE WHO KILL: Monday 10PM on A&E Previously… on THOSE WHO KILL: Catherine Jensen (Chloe Sevigny) is a Pittsburgh homicide detective on the serial killer beat. She has demons in her past, and so does Thomas Schaeffer (James D’Arcy), the forensic psychologist she takes on–against the wishes of her Captain, Frank Bisgaard (James Morrison)–as […]
SIRENS: Thursday 10PM on USA – Change the Channel Even though it’s based on a 2011 British format, SIRENS is exactly what you would expect from the union of USA Network and Denis Leary. Based on the first two episodes, shown back-to-back last night, the series is essentially what Rescue Me would have looked […]
MIXOLOGY: Wednesday 9:30PM on ABC Previously… on MIXOLOGY: On one night, in one bar, ten people variously search for romance or its temporary facsimile through the course of the season’s run. We were briefly introduced to most of them last week, but the pilot concentrated on Tom (Blake Lee), a likably dweeby guy who’d […]
GROWING UP FISHER: Tuesday 9:30PM on NBC Previously… on GROWING UP FISHER: When Henry Fisher (Eli Baker) is 12 years old, his parents Mel (J.K. Simmons) and Joyce (Jenna Elfman) decide to divorce, but with little effect on the family’s camaraderie, which has also barely been touched by the challenge of Mel’s blindness, a […]
MIND GAMES: Tuesday 10PM on ABC Previously… on MIND GAMES: Bipolar genius Clark Edwards (Steve Zahn), an expert in the study of the brain and how it responds to stimuli, was recently fired from his post as a Psychology professor after his obsessive romance with student Beth (Katherine Cunningham). He’s partnered with his recently […]
ABOUT A BOY: Tuesday 9PM on NBC Previously… on ABOUT A BOY: Will Freeman (David Walton) lives a happily superficial, bimbo-laden life in San Francisco, supported indefinitely by the royalties from the one successful song he ever wrote–when one day, 11-year old misfit Marcus (Benjamin Stockham) and his vegan, neurotic, disapproving mother Fiona (Minnie […]