In the new, post-Sopranos (and now post-Mad Men) world of television, there’s much more awareness on the part of the public of individual seasons of shows. It’s not just about the contracts of the cast and crew anymore. Seasons are...
In the very first episode of Mad Men, advertising agency creative director Don Draper (Jon Hamm) describes happiness as the “moment before you need more happiness.” The series’ seventh and final season gave Don various opportunities to learn that isn’t...
When Isabella Rossellini started doing Green Porno, it sounded like a lark and not just because of the silly name. Even when you found out what it was – a series of shorts about animal mating habits in which Rossellini...
When the gimmick for this most recent season of The Amazing Race was announced, it sounded like it had all the makings of a disaster, although possibly an entertaining one. This show that had always subtly positioned itself as the...
When ABC’s Nashville premiered back in 2012, it was one of the critical favorites of that year’s fall crop. With the pedigree of Thelma & Louise scribe Callie Khouri in the creator’s chair and headlined by Connie Britton (essentially television...
Those who already watched the first two seasons of Showtime’s The Tudors and are wondering why they should bother with the miniseries Wolf Hall, which covers the same basic ground, should know a few things. First, this time the story...
If you were to plot the quality of each episode of The Last Man on Earth‘s first season on a graph, the resulting line would look like the bottom half of a smiley face. The season started and ended with...
Broadchurch‘s second season premiere was an exhilarating jolt of an hour. It dropped us right back into the rattled headspace of a town that had seen a child murdered and then an everyman dad confess to the crime. Joe Miller...
Season six of Archer, which just completed its run on FX, started from an odd place. On the one hand, expectations were low because the show was coming off its worst season. I’d love to be the devil’s advocate and...
When we discussed the Glee finale on Hey, Watch This!, we mostly stuck to those last two episodes. The show’s attempt to quickly frame what it decided it was about and then resolve itself according to those brand new rules...
