TV Reviews

Casual‘s two episode season 2 premiere deals with a lot of selfish motives when Valerie tries to get Alex to stop bettering himself, and Alex makes Laura learn bar trivia.

Person of Interest seamlessly weaves a high-stakes mystery with some old faces. Shaw, John, and Fusco work their case while Harold and the Machine discuss scientific ethics. The episode hits just the right mix of cheese and smarts to make it an ideal example of what this show can do.

Benedict Arnold doesn’t get the judgment he counted on and Mary takes a shot at Simcoe on Turn.

Rachel and Quinn are on top of the world together, running this season of Everlasting and enjoying their lives of success and excess, until Chet comes home from a spiritual quest determined to reclaim his kingdom and an explosive three-way power struggle starts to brew.

In a middling episode, Jody gets a girlfriend as the show tries to throw another stumbling block in the way of the inevitable Mindy/Jody romance.

Regan’s reunion with her mother goes horribly wrong, and Flynn is barely able to keep himself from slipping into self-destruction and despair on Hunters

12 Monkeysdelivers one of its strongest episodes to date, as Cole and Cassie are stuck in a time loop in 2020. Memories come flooding back to Cassie, and she may know how to get to The Witness.

Houdini and Doyle takes an alien invasion story and turns it on its ear, as both men still struggle to find out the mystery of Constable Stratton’s past. Will they unlock the secrets of the universe, or just the secret prejudices of the locals?

Things spiral completely out of John’s control as the second season of Bloodline wraps up. The greatest threat to the Rayburn Family is themselves, but can they all get on the same page before the ugly truth comes out?

Team Pied Piper launches a beta version of their platform, which gets mostly positive results. Meanwhile, Erlich faces financial troubles that are not easily fixed this time.

Wynonna Earp enters the deep dark woods, sneaks into a pervy cult compound, and saves a dozen missing women from a tier one reverend.

On the premiere of Feed The Beast, when chef Dion Patras is released from prison with a number of debts to pay, he turns to his former restaurant partner Tommy Moran, with a scheme that could change their lives, or ruin them.

Jesse wrestles with his destiny and how to help a comatose girl, and trouble comes to town in the form of two mysterious men who know Jesse’s secret on Preacher.

A big return of an old character, an army pieced together, and a main character may have seen her last full episode alive. Game Of Thrones surprises this week but still feels like a set-up episode.

Selina and Tom’s love/hate relationship gets more complicated while Jonah’s campaign heats up in New Hampshire in another great episode.

Preparations for the Jacobite uprising touch a nerve with Claire in ways we’ve never seen before on Outlander. Dougal returns, but will the bad blood between him and Jamie simmer down enough for the two men to work together?

In the final chapter of Roots, Chicken George returns from England after more than two decade. George and his son Tom play various parts in the Civil War, and ultimately, in reuniting their family after it.

Some of the wind is sucked out of the sails of Bloodline in the aftermath of Lowry’s death, and with Danny’s confession tape missing, the Rayburn’s are still in perilous waters.

Sarah recovers from her bender, Cosima and Scott have a breakthrough that comes with some bad news, and the Clone Club puts it all on the line for Donnie this week on Orphan Black.

A season set like Sunset Boulevard has a very fitting finale … with a twist! If this is the end of Archer, is this the way it should go out?

“Night Three” centers around Chicken George, the child of Kizzy and plantation master Tom Lea. George uses the chicken fighting circuit and wins a shot at freedom.

Who will inherit the tribe? New SundanceTV drama Cleverman explores oppression, corruption, and class wars with a gritty mystical edge.

It’s pretty clear how Elizabeth would handle the gorilla but Paige wonders if a knife-wielding rapist really had to die on The Americans.

The kids party and the older Roses run into some past friends in the season finale of Schitt’s Creek. Best yet, Johnny gets his moment to shine in a feel-good finish.

In “Night Two”, Kunta falls in love, marries, and has a daughter, Kizzy, only for his family’s bond to be go through great tests on the Waller plantation.

Jake, Jana, Teresa and Xander find themselves under siege at Bitcscan. Lex clashes with the National Guard and takes another drastic step outside the law.

Person of Interest belabors the point with its sci-fi ethics lectures to push Harold to the brink. As a narrative turn just before the ultimate climax, it works but feels heavy-handed.

History Channel’s 2016 reboot of Roots premieres this week. How does it compare to the original?

Washington cuts Abe out of the spy ring and Culper Jr. learns the truth about the attack that destroyed his farm and injured his father on Turn.

Person of Interest works on cleaning up dangling plot threads this week in “Sotto Voce.” A case of the week turns into a tangle of series mythology, gang wars, and character development situations.