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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Franklin & Bash”

Posted August 15, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  FRANKLIN & BASH made a few cosmetic changes for its third summer on TNT, but nothing to disrupt the show’s basic air of genial dishevelment.  The most high-profile move was bringing in Heather Locklear as new senior partner Rachel King in the show’s law firm of Infeld Daniels King, although once it had her, […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “State of Affairs”

Posted February 17, 2015 by Mitch Salem

  STATE OF AFFAIRS ended its season tonight with a cliffhanger that will almost certainly remain unresolved, although one might speculate whether the mysterious airstrike that was heading toward Charleston Tucker (Katherine Heigl) in Afghanistan might have been sent not by Victor Gantry (Adam Arkin), the perfidious head of a paramilitary conglomerate or President Constance […]

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THE SKED Series Finale Review: “The White Queen”

Posted October 20, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  Although Starz was a co-financier of THE WHITE QUEEN, the show was produced by the BBC predominantly for a British audience, so it helped to have a working (or at least a Wikipedia) knowledge of 15th-century English history to get the most out of it.  For example, it would have been difficult to appreciate […]

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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Defiance”

Posted July 9, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  DEFIANCE never really got much momentum going in its first season, and although there were quite a few major developments in tonight’s season finale, events clearly meant to be shattering and dramatic, it all felt rushed and a little desperate to set the stage for next year.  (Despite unexceptional ratings, the series has already […]

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THE SKED NETFLIX REVIEW: “Orange Is the New Black” (full season)

Posted July 21, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK may be the most tolerant show on television (or “television,” or whatever it is we’re calling distributed entertainment content in this new Netflixed world).  All the characters, even those who commit the most heinous acts–inmates and guards both–have their reasons and their frailties.  They’re miserably in love, or living […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “iZombie”

Posted June 10, 2015 by Mitch Salem

  The existence of the strikingly similar (in premise) Stitchers provides some perspective on the imagination and skill that’s gone into IZOMBIE.  Both shows involve young women who temporarily enter the minds of the recently dead to solve their murders, but iZombie is put together with consistent wit, intelligence and a strong sense of character. […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “The Originals”

Posted May 12, 2015 by Mitch Salem

  As we noted yesterday in writing about The Good Wife, churning out 22 hours per season is a tough challenge for any serialized network drama, especially one that concentrates on one central story, unlike, say the multiple plots of a show like Nashville.  The Originals would have fared better with a cable-sized 10 or […]

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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Nashville”

Posted May 23, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  NASHVILLE is a superior network series, loaded with talent and powerful moments, but it can also drive you up a wall, beset as it is with sometimes infuriating shortcomings.  The same was true for tonight’s season finale, written and directed by series creator Callie Khouri. Some of the show’s problems are glaringly obvious.  Its […]

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