WHITE COLLAR: Thursday 9PM on USA Season 5 of WHITE COLLAR couldn’t be in more of a rush to get the hell away from its Season 4 cliffhanger. When we left intrepid FBI agent Peter Burke (Tim DeKay), he was in prison for killing a US Senator, a crime actually committed by the father […]
THE INBETWEEN: Wednesday 10PM on NBC The flow of broadcast summer product continues with NBC’s workmanlike paranormal procedural THE INBETWEEN. The show was created by Moira Kirland, previously a writer/producer on Medium, Hawaii 5-0 and Madam Secretary, among other shows. It’s the first of those that counts here, as The InBetween is very much […]
2 BROKE GIRLS: Monday 8PM on CBS 2 BROKE GIRLS is about as basic as sitcoms come. Take two mismatched young women–Caroline (Beth Behrs), who’s tall, blonde and unable to believe she’s not rich anymore; and Max (Kat Dennings), a busty brunette with street smarts–turn them into enforced roommates and co-workers at a Brooklyn […]
Within the first two minutes of its midseason premiere tonight, BUNHEADS featured a Harold Clurman gag. For those not up on their celebrated left-wing Depression-era theatre directors, Clurman was–well, yeah. (This particular gag took place in a kitchen perfectly constructed in miniature–including working electricity–in a cardboard box.) I’m going to go out on a […]
Among the many, many places where cable has been eating the lunch of the broadcast networks is in the anarchic, shoestring-budgeted world of adult late-night comedy, much of it animated, where Adult Swim has been routinely beating the late-night talk shows in young demos with lunatics-running-the-asylum work like Robot Chicken, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, […]
DOMINION: Thursday 9PM on Syfy – Change the Channel Was there really a pressing need to make a TV series out of the schlock horror movie Legion? It’s not as though the film was much of a hit ($40M total box office in the US, $68M worldwide), nor is it well-remembered even 4 years […]
> COMMUNITY returns to the NBC schedule at 8PM on Thursday, March 15. WHERE WE WERE: Greendale Community College, of course! Where the school mascot is a Human Being and the Dean (Jim Rash) is to be seen in outfits intended for any and all genders and species, a place of air conditioning repair secret-police […]
JUSTIFIED: Tuesday 10PM on FX Final seasons, as we all know, can be tricky, but JUSTIFIED seems to be in strong shape as it enters its last lap. Justified lost a bit of its mojo last year, the victim of some inadequate villains and scattered plotting (the whole Mexican druglord subplot seemed to come […]