Dramedy rules this year’s best TV
Forget the days when a lone TV critic could honestly claim to have watched everything in the past year. This list is more about taking a minute to salute the...
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Summer is the right time for those TV shows you’ve heard about, but never got around to watching
Remember all those TV shows you've heard about but never watched, saving them for that proverbial someday? Summer is the best time to finally watch them - curtains drawn, A/C...
Two TV shows have figured out Gen X’s greatest gift to society: Grouchiness
That blip of a generation known as X, born roughly between 1964 and 1982 (including yours truly), is accustomed to being overlooked. That's always been our chief gripe, but it's...
The pleasant, but entirely unnecessary, return of ‘Will & Grace’
NBC's "Will & Grace" returns eerily unchanged and sharply intact Thursday night, as if the past 11 years never occurred. Those sappy denouements seen in the show's finale back in...
‘Law & Order’ applies its style to true crime, but ‘Menendez Murders’ lacks allure
The Dick Wolf empire's new but not exactly compelling eight-part miniseries for NBC, "Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders" (premiering Tuesday), can be interpreted as an envious response...
While you were watching summer’s biggest TV show, you missed summer’s best TV show
A curious thing happened on the way to television greatness this summer: The highly anticipated return of a critically revered show that some viewers might avoid because of its reputation...
HBO invests in its own cinematic take on Bernie Madoff, but it still doesn’t pay off
Something about the Bernard Madoff investment scandal, which occurred almost nine years ago alongside the near-unraveling of the American economy, is still too big to fathom or, at least, remains...
In ‘Mary Kills People,’ assisted suicide becomes a dangerous side business
Lifetime's "Mary Kills People," a six-episode series that is probably not destined to be new Supreme Court justice Neil M. Gorsuch's favorite binge, is a provocatively compelling and occasionally nail-biting...
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is a dystopian and timely what-if
It must have been awfully tempting for the folks at Hulu to hurry up and release their magnificent and effectively haunting, 10-episode series version of "The Handmaid's Tale," based on...
HBO’s ‘Girls’ goes out as the one thing it always wanted to be: A good TV show
On their last, long publicity lap, the cast and producers of HBO's "Girls," which airs its final episode Sunday night after six seasons, stuck to a clear and unified message...