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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Agent Carter”

Posted March 2, 2016 by Mitch Salem

  The signs are foreboding for AGENT CARTER:  not only have the Season 2 ratings gone from lukewarm to frigid, but star Hayley Atwell has signed for another ABC pilot (although since the same studio and network are involved, and Carter only produces a limited number of episodes each season, doing both isn’t impossible).  It […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Finale Review: “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”

Posted September 28, 2015 by Mitch Salem

  The original, Las Vegas-set CSI didn’t just spawn a mini-industry of its own spin-offs, but it can fairly lay claim to being one of the most influential shows of its generation, more or less inventing the subgenre of high-tech procedural that’s populated every network over the years since it began.  The series rose from […]

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THE SKED Series Finale Review: “Wilfred”

Posted August 14, 2014 by Mitch Salem

  Considering what a deeply strange series WILFRED was–even for the wilds, eventually, of FXX–tonight’s series finale provided a surprising amount of closure.  The more-or-less comedy began as a raunchy riff on “man’s best friend” stories about guys and their dogs, based on an Australian format and starring Jason Gann, who’d co-created and starred in […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”

Posted February 4, 2017 by Mitch Salem

  The first season of CW’s musical-comedy CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND was by far the most daring and distinctive show on broadcast television, but a nagging question remained:  what could it do for an encore?  It wasn’t clear how long the story could follow Rebecca Bunch (series co-creator Rachel Bloom) in her stalking of one-time summer camp […]

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THE SKED Season Finale Review: “The Vampire Diaries”

Posted May 16, 2014 by Mitch Salem

  The fifth season of THE VAMPIRE DIARIES was great fun as usual, although also a bit sloppier than the norm.  That could well be the result of series mastermind Julie Plec having to spread her time between Diaries, the new Originals, and whatever her duties were on The Tomorrow People, of which she was […]

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THE SKED Series Finale Review: “How I Met Your Mother”

Posted March 31, 2014 by Mitch Salem

  Since this is posting before the West Coast airing ends, SPOILER ALERT. …although I’m not sure how much of a Spoiler it is when the Internet has been expecting it for weeks.  Perhaps the biggest surprise in the series finale of HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER was that series creators Carter Bays and Craig […]

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THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “Raising Hope”

Posted March 29, 2013 by Mitch Salem

  Greg Garcia has made a successful niche for himself on network television as poet of the lower-middle-class, small-town, gently surrealist sitcom, first with My Name Is Earl and now with RAISING HOPE.  The only problem with Garcia’s type of show is that the constant requirement for more inventively conceptual, eccentric storylines can lead to […]

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Wayward Pines”

Posted July 24, 2015 by Mitch Salem

  If there’s one thing we’ve learned over the past few seasons, it’s that no matter how much a network swears it’s airing a “closed-end” or “event” series, that’s never ever the case.  If the initial run of episodes have any kind of success, the network will find a way to keep the series going, […]

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