THE BIJOU REVIEW: “The Twilight Saga – Breaking Dawn Part 1”
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
Our Review / 5 - Terrible
THE SKED SEASON FINALE REVIEW: “The Vampire Diaries”
THE VAMPIRE DIARIES brought its A-game to its 3rd season finale, wrapping up (or at least advancing) some storylines while providing massive fodder for Season 4. It should be noted that Diaries thrives on plot twists...
THE SKED PILOT REPORT: NBC’s “Grimm”
> Disclaimer: Network pilots now in circulation are not necessarily in the form that will air in the Fall. Pilots are often reedited and rescored, and in some cases even recast or reshot. So these critiques sh...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Raven”
THE RAVEN: Watch It At Home – Not Much Tell-Tale Heart (Or Brain) Sometimes less-than-great minds think alike, too. The idea of Edgar Allen Poe as a detective investigating strange phenomen...
NIELSENWAR 2014-15 Trailer Review: ABC’s “The Whispers”
THE WHISPERS: Midseason TBD on ABC THE FACTS: Something is taking possession of American children and making them do very bad things–like “kill your parents” bad things. They may be on their way t...
THE SKED’S MIDSEASON RETURN: “The Secret Circle”
> After a hiatus so long that it seemed as though CW had found its own witchcraft to create more repeats of THE SECRET CIRCLE than there’d been original episodes to start, the series finally returned to original episodes....
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “The Walking Dead”
THE WALKING DEAD: Sunday 9PM on AMC WHERE WE WERE: Finally leaving the farm owned by Herschel (Scott Wilson), where for most of a becalmed season, there had been at least as much soul-searching as zombie killing, muc...
THE SKED FALL TRAILER REVIEW: ABC’s “666 Park Avenue”
666 PARK AVENUE: Sunday 10PM on ABC WHAT IT’S SAYING: The Devil’s Advocate, Rosemary’s Baby and The Shining in a stunning NY apartment, and fielding an all-star team of ABC veterans (T...
THE SKED @ BUSTED PILOT THEATRE: “Locke & Key”
>The FOX pilot LOCKE & KEY is a very effective hour of creepiness, but it’s not that hard to understand why the network didn’t put the project on its schedule. The show screams “cult hit” at be...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “True Blood”
HBO’s version of a summer drive-in movie is back. WHERE WE WERE: In the midst of multiple cliffhangers. Telepathic waitress and series heroine Sookie'(Anna Paquin) had just seen her best friend Tara (Rutina Wesley) ge...
THE SKED Season Finale Review: “Hannibal”
Considering how defiantly unlike the rest of broadcast television HANNIBAL is, not to mention its love of metaphor, it made sense for the show’s Season 2 finale to air entirely on its own, separate from the last ep...
THE SKED’S MIDSEASON RETURN: “The Vampire Diaries”
> CW’s biggest only hit THE VAMPIRE DIARIES returned to the schedule. WHERE WE LEFT OFF: The painstakingly-mounted plot to once and for all kill Original Vampire Klaus (Joseph Morgan) failed when Stefan (Paul Wesley...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Final Destination 5”
FINAL DESTINATION 5 – Watch It At Home: Death Takes No Holiday There’s only one thing worth mentioning in FINAL DESTINATION 5… and it’s the one thing I can’t talk about. Let’...