THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Paul”
Watch it at home. The genial PAUL really only has one joke–luckily it’s a pretty good one: what if ET had the persona of Seth Rogen? While Paul isn’t the first alien to crack jokes (rememb...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “The 100”
CW’s THE 100 has set its bar fairly high fover the years, and on those terms, Season 5 wasn’t quite up to par. The central crisis–our protagonists had to face off against a pack of vicious thawed-out ...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Alphas”
ALPHAS: Monday 10PM on Syfy WHERE WE WERE: Think X-Men without the big special effects, the cool gadgets and the costumes. Dr. Lee Rosen (David Stathairn) is the shepherd to a group of Alphas, individuals wi...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Premiere Review: “Extant”
EXTANT: Wednesday 10PM on CBS Although EXTANT survived to a second season (due at least in part to its lucrative Amazon streaming deal), no one involved fooled themselves that it was going very well, as critical respon...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Fringe”
FRINGE: Friday 9PM on FOX WHERE WE WERE: The present, or at least a version of it where our Earth exists in multiple parallel near-duplicate dimensions, and “Observers” from the future make sure everythin...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Battle Los Angeles”
Watch it at home. The deadliest weapon unleashed in BATTLE LOS ANGELES is its barrage of war-movie cliches. Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but there’s this rag-tag group of Marines, led by a hard...
THE SKED SEASON PREMIERE REVIEW: “Falling Skies”
FALLING SKIES – Sunday 9PM on TNT WHERE WE WERE: On our way into a spaceship. The aliens have arrived, and contrary to what Executive Producer Steven Spielberg used to tell us, they’re not nice at ...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “The Survivor,” “Charlotte” & “I’m Your Man”
THE SURVIVOR (no distrib): So many films and television productions have tackled the subject of the Holocaust over the decades that it takes real effort to break through with a story that feels fresh. Barry Levinson&...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Series Premiere Review: “Humans”
HUMANS: Sunday 9PM on AMC – If Nothing Else Is On… The sentient robot story gets another workout in HUMANS, AMC’s first import series. It’s set in a barely futuristic England where “synt...
THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “In Time”
IN TIME: Watch It At Home – The Clock Never Really Starts Ticking Andrew Niccol wants to be a populist moviemaker of ideas, but he just doesn’t have the knack. Niccol’s ideas are genuinely im...
THE SKED’S PILOT + 1 REVIEW: “Terra Nova”
> A lot can happen between the creation of a TV pilot in the spring and production of episodes for the regular season: a writing/producing team is hired, audience focus groups weigh in, networks and studios (which may hav...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “The 100″”
“There are no good guys,” titular Chancellor of post-apocalyptic Earth Abby Griffin (Paige Turco) told her teenage daughter Clarke (Eliza Taylor), who had supplanted her as de facto warrior queen of humanity,...
SHOWBUZZDAILY Season Finale Review: “Westworld”
Do Westworld‘s creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy have free will? This third season of HBO’s was supposed to be fundamentally different from the first two, and certainly things changed in some key ways. ...