“Gotham” is a show that comes with high expectations. When you are adapting one of the most famous comic-book series of all time in Batman, it is difficult to expect almost anything less. The problem that this show runs into sometimes is that if it tries too much to be like Batman, viewers become upset. […]
“Quantico” on ABC remains a show that is in some ways incredibly interesting, but in others incredibly frustrating. It’ll make moves that push the story forward a few steps, only to then do others that push it backward. We want to love it at times more than we do. So what did the show do […]
There have been times where we’ve been fairly critical of “Grey’s Anatomy” for either telling stories that are a bit too silly, or at times repetitive versus past seasons of the show. When you are a whopping thirteen years into pretty much anything, you’ve gotta prepare for the possibility that there are a few things […]
We’re not particularly sure at the moment that any show on television had things quite as rough as “Law & Order: SVU” this fall in terms of scheduling. It feels almost as though the show’s been barely on thanks to multiple hiatuses due to Presidential Debates and the World Series, an episode in “Unstoppable” that […]
When “Chicago Med” entered the TV landscape last year, it did so under some upheaval. It changed showrunners before the start of the series, had some shakeups in the cast, and had a lot of hurdles that it needed to overcome. It took a little bit of time in order to start to find its footing. […]
We’re a little ways removed right now from “The Blacklist” season 4 finishing off the first part of the season, and the reason that’s important is rather simple: It allows us an opportunity to sit back, take in a deep breath, and analyze everything that went right / some of what went wrong. We’ll begin […]
There are so many times that we grow frustrated with “NCIS: Los Angeles” as a series, but it is rarely because of what they decide to put on the show. Instead, more often than not it is about what they decide to not put on the show. This is a show that does not take a whole […]
Sometimes, we have sympathy for a show like “Major Crimes,” where the format at times makes it a little bit difficult to get any forward momentum going. While this is a series that brings a lot of great entertainment week in and week out, much of it is of the start-and-stop variety. You get a […]
In many ways, last season of “Saturday Night Live” was meant to be the big one. It was the 40th anniversary, a chance for many of the show’s former cast members to come back and celebrate what is a legendary part of television. Now, we are into season 41. There is a natural tendency to […]
We’re not sure that there has ever been a season of “The Big Bang Theory” where we’ve had as strong a reaction to it from start to finish. After the first few episodes, we were starting to think that this was a show that couldn’t redeem itself, only for them to pull themselves out of […]
