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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “The Walking Dead”

When a show is as successful as AMC’s THE WALKING DEAD, it can afford to spend virtually the entire back half of a season as little more than a lead-up to the next. But can it also provide no satisfaction at all ...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Girls”

GIRLS: Sunday 10PM on HBO We now know that the 6th and next season of Lena Dunham’s GIRLS will be its last, and the Season 5 premiere made clear that Dunham has little intention of making the show less polarizing...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Legends”

LEGENDS: Monday 10PM on TNT The first season of TNT’s LEGENDS was notable mostly for wasting the talents of its star Sean Bean. The show’s concept, based on a novel by Robert Littell, concerned federal ag...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Billions”

BILLIONS: Sunday 10PM on Showtime (pilot available via VOD and streaming) – Potential DVR Alert There’s a gag in The Big Short where an esoteric piece of financial information, crucial for understanding the...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “The Catch”

THE CATCH: Thursday 10PM on ABC – If Nothing Else Is On… Not much remains of the original pilot for ABC and ShondaLand’s THE CATCH, beyond its basic premise and some of the cast. Original series c...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Vinyl”

VINYL watchers, HBO feels your pain. Late in a run that matched low ratings with little buzz or critical enthusiasm, the network took the unusual step of not just firing co-creator/showrunner Terence Winter, but of pub...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Finale Review: “The League”

In an era when even network sitcoms often try to Say Something Meaningful, let’s take a moment to appreciate THE LEAGUE, which devoted 7 prosperous seasons to ingeniously and hilariously being nothing but rude. J...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Into the Badlands”

The first season of AMC’s INTO THE BADLANDS felt entirely predigested. It was Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon by way of Game of Thrones by way of every post-apocalyptic Chosen One fantasy you’ve ever seen. ...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “Supergirl”

SUPERGIRL: Monday 8PM on CBS Previously… on SUPERGIRL: Kara Zor-El (Melissa Benoist) was older than her illustrious Kryptonian cousin when she was sent to Earth to protect him as he grew from babyhood. But some unex...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee”

FULL FRONTAL WITH SAMANTHA BEE: Monday 10:30PM on TBS – Potential DVR Alert It is written, apparently, that all alumni of Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show who aren’t starring in movies or sitcoms must hav...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Togetherness”

TOGETHERNESS: Sunday 10:30PM on HBO HBO pairs Jay and Mark Duplass’s TOGETHERNESS with Girls on Sunday nights, and in a way they make sense as companion pieces, since Togetherness concerns a screwed-up foursome a...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Gotham”

GOTHAM did a better job of navigating its clog of characters in its second season. Bruno Heller’s mash-up of Batman origin story, the Dark Knight trilogy, 1930s-style cop drama, and all-around comic book freak-sh...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Finale Review: “Flesh and Bone”

Starz cut its losses quickly on FLESH AND BONE, which had been ordered as the first season of a continuing series, but was declared to be a finite miniseries before it had even started airing. That late shift made toni...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Second Chance”

SECOND CHANCE: Wednesdays 9PM on FOX (pilot also available via VOD/streaming) – If Nothing Else Is On… There’s not much spark to FOX’s SECOND CHANCE, a spin on Frankenstein (at one point it was ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Once Upon A Time”

After 5 seasons of declining success, if ONCE UPON A TIME were less synergistic for Disney/ABC (the movie studio used tonight’s 2-hour season premiere to showcase summer spectacles Alice Through The Looking Glass a...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “The Walking Dead”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Girls”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Legends”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Billions”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “The Catch”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Vinyl”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Finale Review: “The League”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Into the Badlands”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Pilot + 1 Review: “Supergirl”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Togetherness”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Gotham”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Finale Review: “Flesh and Bone”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Second Chance”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Once Upon A Time”

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