Categories
Archives
My Work
Links
Category Archives: Television
What I Watched This Week: 16 Dec 2018
NEW SHOWS & SPECIALS Pete Holmes: Dirty Clean (B+) What I love about Pete Holmes, in addition to his energy and affable personality, is that he’s the rare comedian whose routines seem built not out of a desire to “kill” … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Television
Tagged hbo, pete holmes
Comments Off on What I Watched This Week: 16 Dec 2018
What I Watched This Week: 2 Dec 2018
NEW SHOWS The Good Place – “Janet(s)” (A) Season 3 saved it best and biggest twist for its fall finale, taking huge storytelling risks along the way. It’s built to this all season long, and it absolutely stuck the landing. … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Television
Tagged good place
Comments Off on What I Watched This Week: 2 Dec 2018
What I Watched This Week: 25 Nov 2018
NEW SHOWS This Is Us – “The Beginning Is the End Is the Beginning” (B+) Takes a lot of big swings with a few misses. The reveal that Nicky is still alive seems more obvious in retrospect, but holds a … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Television
Tagged this is us
Comments Off on What I Watched This Week: 25 Nov 2018
What I Watched This Week: 18 Nov 2018
NEW SHOWS Saturday Night Live – “Steve Carell/Ella Mai” (B+) None of the sketches were truly great, but all none of them made me wish for a quick death, which counts as an improvement. Carell is a pro, but I’m … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Television
Tagged bodyguard, good place, netflix, saturday night live, snl, this is us
Comments Off on What I Watched This Week: 18 Nov 2018
What I Watched This Week: 4 Nov 2018
NEW SHOWS It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia – “Mac Finds His Pride” (B+) / season finale It’s hard to know exactly how to grade this episode. Until its last act, it’s an odd mix of heartfelt character development and gross sight … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Television
Tagged amazon, good place, homecoming, house of cards, it's always sunny in philadelphia, netflix
Comments Off on What I Watched This Week: 4 Nov 2018
What I Watched This Week: 28 Oct 2018
NEW SHOWS This Is Us – “Kamsahamnida” (A-) The sneaky great thing about this show is when it feels the most like traditional TV, where plot points occur just to fill time in an episode, is that there’s always a … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Television
Tagged good place, it's always sunny in philadelphia, this is us
Comments Off on What I Watched This Week: 28 Oct 2018
Streaming Picks: November 2018
FILMS Top Picks The Adventures of Tintin – Prime 11/1 eXistenZ – Hulu 11/1 The Other Side of the Wind/They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead – Netflix 11/2 The first two are underrated gems from the well-regarded careers of Steven … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Previews, Television
Tagged 1983, adventures of tintin, aliens and agenda 21, amazon, angela's christmas, baby, ballad of buster scruggs, baskets, beat, beat bugs, bigfoot, bisexual, boo 2, brainchild, cam, children act, christmas calendar, christmas chronicles, christmas prince, coldplay, creative galaxy, crew, damascus cover, dave attell, death by magic, dietland, downsizing, durrels in corfu, dust 2 glory, existenz, expanse, f is for family, fair game, final table, follow this, frontier, fugitiva, gotti, great british baking show, gymkhana files, happy as lazzaro, holiday calendar, holly hobbie, homecoming, house of cards, hulu, inside jokes, into the dark, jeff ross, john leguizamo, judgement, k, keepers of the magic, killer bees, kominsky method, kulipari, kung fu panda, la reina del flow, larger than life, last kingdom, little big awesome, loudon wainwright, loving pablo, luis and the aliens, madea, married with children, may the devil take you, mcqueen, medal of honor, mighty magiswords, mirzapur, motown magic, mystery science theater 3000, narcos, netflix, nina's world, oh my ghost, ordinary man, other side of the wind, outlaw king, patriot, Pete the cat, ponysitters club, prince of peoria, princess switch, rajma chawal, remastered, sabrina, sailor moon, she-ra, siberia, sick note, six, sleepless, spirit, spy kids, super drags, they'll love me when i'm dead, tiempo compartido, to build or not to build, treehouse detectives, trevor noah, trolls, under the tree, warrior, westside, wonder, world is yours
Comments Off on Streaming Picks: November 2018
What I Watched This Week: 21 Oct 2018
NEW SHOWS The Simpsons – “Treehouse of Horror XXIX” (B+) Follows the typical set up – two mildly amusing stories and one dud – yet I found myself a lot more weak to its charms. It’s not great, but very funny. All … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Television
Tagged good place, it's always sunny in philadelphia, simpsons, this is us
Comments Off on What I Watched This Week: 21 Oct 2018
What I Watched This Week: 14 Oct 2018
NEW SHOWS Harvey Birdman, Attorney General (B+) Its parody is a little too on-the-nose, yet it’s also more equipped to mock our current absurd situation than more political shows. If they want to do one of these every year or … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, Television
Tagged flight of the conchords, good place, Harvey birdman, hbo, it's always sunny in philadelphia, south park, this is us
Comments Off on What I Watched This Week: 14 Oct 2018