TV #57 of 2025: The Sopranos, season 5 There’s a strong sense of inevitable fatalism running throughout this penultimate run* of The Sopranos, ultimately rendering it my favorite season yet. I love it when TV is structured around a single cohesive storyline for the year, and while serialization leads to the typical open ends here, …
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TV Review: Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars, season 1
TV #28 of 2025: Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars, season 1 This 2004 miniseries, airing a couple years after the premature cancellation of the regular Farscape TV show, reminds me a lot of the movie Serenity (2005) and its relation to Firefly. Like that film, it aims to offer a stronger conclusion to the ongoing storyline …
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TV Review: Star Trek: Enterprise, season 3
TV #29 of 2023: Star Trek: Enterprise, season 3 Credit where credit’s due: this season is a solid step up in quality for what’s previously been the weakest iteration of Star Trek to date. It’s still not a total success story, but this run makes a lot of smart choices to shake up its formerly …
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TV Review: Gilmore Girls, season 4
TV #21 of 2023: Gilmore Girls, season 4 I think this is where Gilmore Girls turns a corner for me in terms of my appreciation versus enjoyment of the characters and the ongoing slice-of-life narrative around them. It remains a strong series, and this year in particular does a fine job of navigating two big …
TV Review: Six Feet Under, season 4
TV #19 of 2023: Six Feet Under, season 4 For most of this season, I expected I would give it the same three-star rating that I’ve assigned to its previous runs, reflecting a series that is deeply uneven: an engaging family drama with some individual scenes that are affecting and periodically profound meditations on death …
TV Review: The Shield, season 3
TV #47 of 2022: The Shield, season 3 On some level, this season feels like it’s walking back many of the show’s recent plot developments, which is never a welcome sign. Aceveda has decided he’s not stepping down as precinct captain yet after all, Danny gets rehired and repartnered with Julien, Tavon is incapacitated and …
TV Review: The West Wing, season 5
TV #25 of 2017: The West Wing, season 5 This show never quite gets bad during its run, but this season is probably the closest it gets (which makes it all the more surprising that 5×17 The Supremes is one of the show’s all-time best episodes). Josh’s annoying intern is a big part of the …
TV Review: Deadwood, season 1
TV #13 of 2016: Deadwood, season 1 I’m not sure what to make of this series so far. The production values are great, as is the cast and the acting, but I still feel like most of my enjoyment is coming from spotting all those familiar faces in Wild West getup. The characters themselves are …
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