This used to be a pretty simple job when I first became a TV critic. There were the Big Four networks, plus the WB and UPN (and when I started in the summer of '96, they were barely worthy of notice) and the occasi...
A review of last night's "Southland" coming up just as soon as I need a haircut...
"Chaos" played with a fairly old cop show trope with the story of cops being taken hostage, under threat of ...
A review of tonight's "The Americans" coming up just as soon as I can find a travel agent staying in a motel under his own name...
"But in a war, blood gets spilled. That's how it goes." -Agen...
Over the years, "Parks and Recreation" has done an outstanding job of filling in the town around the Pawnee parks department where Leslie, Ron and friends work. Pawnee now has a well-established news me...
It's morning round-up time, with quick thoughts on last night's "New Girl" and "The Mindy Project" coming up just as soon as I put a nickel, a big toe or a golf pencil in there for referenc...
A review of tonight's "Cougar Town" season finale coming up just as soon as I tell you the name of the graphic novel in which I fight a robot for your affection...
"Cougar Town" fell out of t...
It was a running gag in this season's "Justified" reviews that I wanted FX to create a web series around Jere Burns' Kentucky wiseguy character in which Wynn Duffy reacted to surprising things. A few days ...
A review of last night's "Bates Motel" coming up just as soon as I think you're pretty like an old woman...
"Trust Me" was the fourth "Bates" episode, and the first I'd seen since I ...
I had to rush out on the end of today's Firewall & Iceberg Podcast, and yet we still wound up talking for over 90 minutes, thanks to a dense "Mad Men" premiere, a pair of notable finales...
Happy Monday, Boys & Girls! It's time for a busy installment of The Firewall & Iceberg Podcast.
With finales for "Shameless" and "Justified," premieres of "Veep," "...
