UNDER THE DOME: Thursday 10PM on CBS UNDER THE DOME has become increasingly dopey as it’s tried to justify its existence as a continuing drama after being launched as a limited series adaptation of Stephen King...
This season, HAVEN delved deeply into its own mythology, with mixed results. Haven‘s own situation is unclear, existentially speaking: it received a super-sized 26-episode order from Syfy earlier this year, wit...
UNDER THE DOME: Monday 10PM on CBS – Potential DVR Alert Much of CBS’s programming philosophy is built around the steady reliability of its reruns, so on the face of it, the Eye would seem least likely of t...
JOHN CARTER: Watch It At Home – Never Goes Into Orbit All signs suggest that JOHN CARTER will be a financial failure of historic proportions, mostly because of its colossal cost (Disney admit...
The third season of ORPHAN BLACK was a step up from Season 2, although the show is still the victim of its plotting. The main narrative for the season was set up in the Season 2 finale, with the discovery that along wi...
UNDER THE DOME went rather bonkers in its second season, apparently flummoxed by the fact that it existed at all. Dome had originally been conceived as a limited summer series that, like the Stephen King novel which in...
UNDER THE DOME: Monday 10PM on CBS Previously… on UNDER THE DOME: Well, there’s a giant freaking dome. One peaceful Sunday afternoon, it suddenly came down over Chester’s Mill, Maine, enveloping t...
ORPHAN BLACK is destined to be remembered more for the showcase it gave to the astonishing Tatiana Maslany than for its own narrative, although of course one couldn’t have existed without the other. Series creato...
ORPHAN BLACK: Saturday 10PM on BBCAmerica A somewhat meta line of dialogue about “consolidation” is a sign that ORPHAN BLACK has commenced its final (and 5th) season. Series creators Graeme Manson and Joh...
AFTER EARTH: Not Even For Free – The Smith Family In Outer Space In AFTER EARTH, Will Smith plays Cypher Raige, an emotionally austere father who withholds affection from his son because of his doubt that the boy...
STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE 3D, to give it its fully identifying title, has the distinction of being the most successful movie ever made that is generally agreed to be terrible. Over $900M in ticke...
EXTANT: Wednesday 9PM on CBS Previously… on EXTANT: Astronaut Molly Woods (Halle Berry) returns from a 13 month-long solo mission in space with a surprise–she’s pregnant. Although come to think of...
COLONY: Thursday 10PM on USA (pilot available via on-demand and streaming) – If Nothing Else Is On… USA’s new COLONY falls into the category of alien-invasion science fiction, but its pilot has more i...