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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “The Real O’Neals”

THE REAL O’NEALS: Tuesday 8:30PM on ABC – Change the Channel Whatever its other ailments, over the past few years ABC has had an extraordinary run of diverse, smart family sitcoms,–an area where other...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Succession”

The most tantalizing question of the Summer 2018 TV season is whether Jesse Armstrong, the creator of HBO’s slow-boil triumph SUCCESSION, knew what he was doing all along, or if the first 3-4 episodes were as uncer...

by Mitch Salem

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THE SKED Midseason Premiere Review: “Dallas”

DALLAS: Monday 9PM on TNT As TNT pushes its action-oriented “Boom” branding campaign (successfully with The Last Ship, not so much with Murder In the First nor apparently the new Legends), DALLAS seems more...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Animal Kingdom”

ANIMAL KINGDOM: Tuesday 9PM on TNT ANIMAL KINGDOM has been a key part of TNT’s rebranding as a hipper TV destination than the home of Major Crimes and The Last Ship, and tonight’s Season 2 premiere promised...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Ray Donovan”

RAY DONOVAN: Sunday 9PM on Showtime It’s a bit surprising that RAY DONOVAN has been a steady performer for Showtime, considering that its tone tends toward the glum and monotonous, but next to Homeland, it’...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “9JKL”

9JKL: Monday 8:30PM on CBS – Change the Channel We usually do actors the favor of evaluating their work on a project separately from the quality of the project itself, willing to take their performances on their ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Good Behavior”

GOOD BEHAVIOR: Sunday 10PM on TNT As TNT continues with its scorched-earth policy of shedding its old-guard mainstream successes (Rizzoli & Isles, Major Crimes) for the more adult, serialized dramas favored by netw...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Ray Donovan”

Replacing a show’s creator with a new showrunner isn’t the preferred way for a series to proceed, but the change did some good for Season 3 of RAY DONOVAN, although tonight’s season finale didn’t ...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Shameless”

SHAMELESS: Sunday 9PM on Showtime John Wells comes from the broadcast network school of showrunning, where he kept ER going for 22 (or more) episodes per year for more than a decade, and barely missed a beat when Aaron...

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THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Finding Carter”

FINDING CARTER: Tuesday 10PM on MTV Previously… on FINDING CARTER: At 16, Carter Stevens (Kathryn Prescott) believed herself to be having a better-than-average adolescence, mostly due to a close bond with her e...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Midseason Finale Review: “This Is Us”

Last week’s episode of NBC’s THIS IS US notched an impressive achievement: in Live + 7 ratings, it moved past Empire to become the highest rated drama on broadcast TV. Admittedly, L7 ratings aren’t ...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “If Beale Street Could Talk” & “Ben Is Back”

IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (Annapurna – November 30): Barry Jenkins’ follow-up to Moonlight received a rapturous standing ovation at its Toronto premiere, and it’s unquestionably a beautiful piece of ...

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THE SKED Summer Finale Review: “Chasing Life”

CHASING LIFE, which aired its not-quite-half season finale tonight, could better have been titled What Not To Do If You Get Cancer. That, in itself, isn’t a criticism: a story about a narcissistic idiot who get...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Rebel In the Rye,” “Newness,” “Landline,” “I Don’t Feel At Home,” “Ingrid Goes West” & “Walking Out”

REBEL IN THE RYE (no distrib): Danny Strong’s first film as a director is a biography of J. D. Salinger (Nicholas Hoult), and it hits all the Salinger bullet points: his early struggles to get published, his sp...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Toronto Film Festival Reviews

This was a Toronto Film Festival unlike any other, and not just because I “attended” it from the laptop in my house. Toronto has become an important stop on the road to the Academy Awards, with 9 of the pas...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “The Real O’Neals”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Succession”

THE SKED Midseason Premiere Review: “Dallas”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Animal Kingdom”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Ray Donovan”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “9JKL”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Good Behavior”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Ray Donovan”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Shameless”

THE SKED Pilot + 1 Review: “Finding Carter”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Midseason Finale Review: “This Is Us”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “If Beale Street Could Talk” & “Ben Is Back”

THE SKED Summer Finale Review: “Chasing Life”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Sundance Film Festival Reviews: “Rebel In the Rye,” “Newness,” “Landline,” “I Don’t Feel At Home,” “Ingrid Goes West” & “Walking Out”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Virtual Toronto Film Festival Reviews

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