TV #58 of 2025: 12 Monkeys, season 2 The debut year of this program offered an uneven but promising sci-fi premise of a dystopian soldier and a contemporary doctor working together to try to prevent the pandemic that’s ravaged the planet by his era. It’s a loose reboot of the 1995 Terry Gilliam movie, less …
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TV Review: Galavant, season 2
TV #45 of 2025: Galavant, season 2 A welcome improvement over its debut. As I’d hoped, the writers finally seem to have locked into which elements of this fantasy musical-comedy sitcom work well and which ones don’t, and the result is an overall stronger season. It’s too bad the series wasn’t renewed for a third …
TV Review: Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, season 1
TV #46 of 2023: Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, season 1 Three-and-a-half stars, rounded up. There’s a lot of things I enjoy about this unexpected Netflix revival, which aired in 2016 after the original WB/CW program ended in 2007. In a review at the time, I mentioned: “It really feels like ten years …
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TV Review: Bob’s Burgers, season 6
TV #35 of 2022: Bob’s Burgers, season 6 I’ve now reached the point of this Bob’s Burgers rewatch where I’m caught up with the seasons that I reviewed the first time I saw it, starting in 2016. So here’s what I wrote then, at somewhat less than my now-typical length: “I feel like Bob’s Burgers …
TV Review: Scandal, season 5
TV #12 of 2022: Scandal, season 5 This political melodrama remains ridiculous, verging on outright self-parody, but this season is at least a minor course-correction to the spy nonsense that was dragging it down in previous years. Rowan is frustratingly still around as a master manipulator, but his B613 organization has stayed dismantled, and for …
TV Review: The Americans, season 4
TV #49 of 2021: The Americans, season 4 This remains a good show from scene to scene, but I’m growing frustrated with some of the larger plotting decisions. Last year built up a few tense and untenable situations that never came to a head, like Kimmy’s advances and the literal Chekhov’s gun in Martha’s kitchen …
TV Review: Star Wars Rebels, season 2
TV #43 of 2021: Star Wars Rebels, season 2 A definite step down from its first season, this sophomore run of the Disney Star Wars cartoon is a frustratingly meandering piece of storytelling. There are some slight attempts at character arcs, but mostly we’re given a lot of episodic filler that doesn’t really capitalize on …
TV Review: Kim’s Convenience, season 1
TV #1 of 2021: Kim’s Convenience, season 1 I like the distinctive perspective of centering a sitcom around a Korean-Canadian family running a convenience store, but I could do without all the stubborn bigotry of patriarch Mr. Kim. While it never feels as though we’re meant to side with his racism, sexism, homophobia, etc., too …
TV Review: Fleabag, season 1
TV #56 of 2020: Fleabag, season 1 This short British show about a woman with sex addiction, a dysfunctional family, and a dead best friend successfully mines some uncomfortable humor from those subjects, but… I’m frankly just not sure I really get it. Like, as funny and distinctive as the nameless protagonist’s audience asides can …
TV Review: The Good Wife, season 7
TV #41 of 2020: The Good Wife, season 7 The penultimate run of this legal drama petered out by the end, but this final year is somehow another big step down. On a scene-by-scene basis The Good Wife continues to bear a surface resemblance to the show it used to be, but the characterizations and …
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