23 hours agoThis is The End of An EraWhen We Said Goodbye To The Pearsons, Did an Era For Broadcast Television End As Well? Last night, in a typically emotional fashion, millions of viewers said goodbye to Kate, Kevin and Randall as well as the rest of the always expanding Pearson clan. For three years loyal fans of…This Is Us9 min read
1 day agoAs Better Call Saul Ends, A Look At How We Got to the End of the BeginningPart 2: The Cartel And The Dead Being Given New Life In one of his first scenes in Breaking Bad, after Walt and Jesse have mangled an attempt to take him prisoner, Saul assesses the two of them as the criminals they are and offers to become their Tom Hagen…Better Call Saul10 min read
2 days agoIt’s The Beginning of the End for Better Call Saul. So Let’s See How We Got Here.Part 1: How the People in Jimmy’s Orbit Have Affected Him As Saul Goodman once said as the battle between Gus Fring and Walter White was reaching its climax: “We are in the end of days.” And that is where we are as of Monday night: the end of the…Better Call Saul11 min read
5 days agoAtlanta Ends Its Third Season On Typically Bizarre, Glorious NoteAnd Those Bottled Episodes? Not as Bottled As We Thought. One of the questions that have to be boggling the minds of those of us who, like me, are huge fans of FX’s Atlanta: What has been going on with Season 3? The series has always been willing to operate…Atlanta6 min read
6 days agoIf You’re Only Coming Around to The Opinion Now That David Mamet Represents Toxic Masculinity….Then You’re A Bleeping Moron The last few months David Mamet, one of the greatest writers in the history of theater and film, has been making the rounds for some, shall we say, controversial comments he’s been making about politics and sexuality. I won’t repeat them, because most of you…David Mamet8 min read
May 19I Guess SNL Will Need Someone To Play Mayim Bialik SoonCelebrity Jeopardy Comes To Primetime This Fall. It Might Be Fun. It Won’t Be Pretty. Usually when I write a column about Jeopardy it’s usually to gush about a great contestant or rave about the level of play. …Jeopardy11 min read
May 17They’re Called Limited Series For A ReasonA Trend on Television That’s Nearly as Troubling as The Reboot Late last week, I was floored to learn that Hulu had decided to renew Nine Perfect Strangers; the David E. Kelley led adaptation of a Lianne Moriarty novel, for a second season. I was a big fan of the…Nicole Kidman6 min read
May 16Why Maid Was The One Of The Great Accomplishments Of TV This Season(Despite The Opinion of One Particular Letter Writer to the New York Times) A colleague of mine has a phrase about the stupidity of certain people he doesn’t agree with. I’m not going to use that phrase because I don’t want to rip it off. But when I finally finished…Netflix Originals8 min read
May 13Remember When I Said This Season Was Jeopardy’s Year of The Woman?I Didn’t Realize How Right I Was Yesterday, after a Final Jeopardy in the category LET’S SPEAK ITALIAN that no one was able to answer correctly, Daniel Nguyen a high school math teacher from San Jose became champion with $7,199. It was, by all standards, an utterly unremarkable game except…Jeopardy5 min read
May 11They’re An Angry Family Doing The Best They CanBreeders Returns For Season 3 One of the quieter pleasures I enjoyed last year was the FX presentation of Breeders, a dry and very brittle comedy about a middle class family trying to raise two very problematic children. Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard, two of the subtly greatest actors on…What We Do In The Shadows5 min read