It’s telling about how special Ted Lasso is that when an episode of it reminds me of Parks & Recreation — one of the premier half-hour comedies of the 21st Century, it almost feels like it’s slumming. As it is […]
We open on a pretty by-the-numbers villain speech from Vadic, who swears vengeance and destruction, kills a random underling just to show how ruthless she is, but most significantly, vows to track down every friend Jean-Luc Picard has left, as […]
Journalist and author Suki Kim tells us about the six months she spent undercover in Kim Jong Il’s North Korea, teaching the children of the country’s elite while in constant danger of being discovered. She recounted her experiences in a […]
Getting all of your characters high is pretty low-hanging fruit, as comedy goes. But that’s only because, if it’s done well, it’s always funny. If it’s done very well, it also brings insight into the characters as their inhibitions fall […]
As a rock and roll legend once said, there’s a fine line between clever and stupid. Agent Elvis’ premise manages to be both at once. Elvis Presley, rock and roll’s first superstar, has a secret life fighting crime, with the […]
Star Trek: The Next Generation could always swing between serious drama and silly high concept, and we follow last week’s meditation on impending death with a cold open in which Jack mercilessly kills the bridge crew… but it was all […]
Perhaps the most remarkable thing this phenomenon of a show has pulled off is its ability to balance the classic sports narrative with touching and emotional human stories. In the polarizing—and in my mind highly underrated—second season, there was the […]
“Henry had sex, everybody!” One thing we’re already enjoying about this revival season of Party Down is its inclination to zig when we expect it to zag. The first episode pointedly didn’t get the gang back together, and when last […]
So here we are, at the end. And we start back at the beginning, with the death of Sterling Frost Jr., Adrian Brody’s failson casino boss from episode one, and the menacing phone call Charlie receives from the grieving and […]
We ended last week with a monumental cliffhanger, as tension comes to a head between Picard and Riker, when Picard overrides Riker’s instincts to play it safe, and blunders into disaster. The Titan was last seen crippled, powered down, and […]
