TV #53 of 2025: The Sopranos, season 4 Another season of this family/crime drama that’s only periodically at its most effective, although the finale does a lot to clarify how the gradual dissolution of the central marriage ought to have been our primary focus all along. Unfortunately, however, the year leading up to that terrific …
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TV Review: Farscape, season 3
TV #7 of 2025: Farscape, season 3 Cast shakeups are hard. Some TV series take such overhauls in their stride, like Doctor Who‘s revolving door of companions and regenerations, while others can weather the occasional new arrival or departure by leaning into the mission at the core of the premise and how the ensemble pursuing …
TV Review: Six Feet Under, season 2
TV #11 of 2023: Six Feet Under, season 2 Credit where credit’s due: the second year of this funeral home drama is a noticeable step up from the first, and it continues to improve over the course of its run, building to a finale that’s a clear series high point thus far. The show appears …
TV Review: Gilmore Girls, season 2
TV #6 of 2023: Gilmore Girls, season 2 Another strong outing of this multigenerational family drama, with more cracks evident between ‘best friends’ Lorelai and her daughter Rory as the latter navigates her junior year of high school. The storytelling all-around feels more competent than in the debut run, and I appreciate the early course-correction …
TV Review: Star Trek: Enterprise, season 1
TV #56 of 2022: Star Trek: Enterprise, season 1 In my ongoing aim to watch through the entirety of the franchise, I have now seen 27 whole seasons of Star Trek. That’s all of The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, and Deep Space Nine, in addition to most of Voyager, and this, …
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TV Review: The Shield, season 1
TV #14 of 2022: The Shield, season 1 This is not an easy program to watch, even by the standards of other crime dramas. (Take a glance at the content warnings I’ve listed below, and realize that many of these behaviors are present in the ostensible good guys of the series.) It’s fantastically written, directed, …
TV Review: Dawson’s Creek, season 5
TV #56 of 2021: Dawson’s Creek, season 5 It was perhaps inevitable that this teen drama would have growing pains in the transition from high school to college, which is a tricky maneuver for any show to pull off. The sets, the supporting cast, the typical episode beats: all of these are necessarily different, and …
TV Review: The West Wing, season 3
TV #40 of 2016: The West Wing, season 3 My wife and I are still making our way through this show for her first time and my nth. The third season holds up pretty well, even though this was the one that began airing shortly after 9/11. There are definitely some plot decisions that I’m …
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