TV #35 of 2026: Doctor Who: Scream of the Shalka, season 1 Doctor Who’s so-called wilderness years of 1989-2005 saw a wide range of possible story continuations both on and off the screen, some more official (either contemporarily or in hindsight) than others. This six-part webcast falls directly in the middle of that continuum — …
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TV #14 of 2025: Farscape, season 4 This is the end of Farscape proper, though I still need to watch the sequel miniseries. Setting aside the shocking cliffhanger, which I’m sure would have been pretty frustrating if no continuation had ever come along, it’s another solid run that doesn’t quite live up to the series …
TV #15 of 2023: Six Feet Under, season 3 This HBO drama about a family who run an independent funeral home has been steadily growing on me, but even in this third season I still don’t think the series is consistently strong enough to deserve a rating higher than three-out-of-five stars. The first episode of …
TV #13 of 2023: Gilmore Girls, season 3 This year is probably peak Gilmore Girls for me, although it’s overall a show that’s remained consistently strong across its tenure. (I’m already looking forward to defending the less popular final original season and subsequent Netflix revival miniseries when I get to my reviews of those.) Rory’s …
TV #9 of 2023: Star Trek: Enterprise, season 2 I will grudgingly allow that this sophomore season represents a degree of improvement over its shaky predecessor. While the early 2000s Trek prequel series remains the weakest iteration of the franchise that I’ve seen to date, the typical episode in this second year generally approaches the …
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TV #32 of 2022: The Shield, season 2 The same bitterly funny anti-cop police drama, back for a follow-up round of continued corruption, complicity, and arrogant ignorance. I’d rate this season as a slight step down from the debut, but mainly only because as great as all that remains, the series has already staked out …
TV #63 of 2021: Dawson’s Creek, season 6 A regrettably weak ending to a series that I’ve never wholly loved, but have at least come to appreciate in its own way. The previous year was already a shaky departure from the show’s core strengths and character histories, and this final stretch reads like a faded …
TV #40 of 2021: Firefly, season 1 Firefly casts a long shadow in fan circles for its notoriety as the classic case of a TV show unjustly canceled before its time. The litany is tediously familiar at this point: Fox executives didn’t understand the thing, aired the episodes all out of their intended order (scrambling …
TV #51 of 2016: The West Wing, season 4 After a rocky adjustment post-9/11 in the previous season, this year The West Wing is back to its usual level of quality. I’m also amazed, even on this millionth rewatch, at the audacity of Aaron Sorkin to end his last season that way and leave such …
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