TV Reviews

Season 3, Episode 20 – Dre shows signs of maturity on an otherwise forgettable episode of Black-ish. It’s not the return to form fans might have hoped for after last week’s disaster, but it’s solid.

Season 1, Episode 15 – While President Kirkman makes an ambitious speech, in order to bring his administration back on track, the First Lady makes a controversial statement, which creates an unexpected setback. Meanwhile, Agent Wells makes some vital headway in tracking down the mysterious woman involved with the bombing.

Season 2, Episode 11 – Something strange is happening in Fillory. Fen is missing, a number of people have been turned into rats, and it may all be Margo’s fault. Quentin and Julia head down to the underworld to rescue Julia’s Shade, but find something else that catches their eye on The Magicians.

Season 2, Episode 5 – On this week’s Underground, Cato continues his ostentatious life in the north, but it’s not too long before old enemies threaten it. Meanwhile, Rosalee and Noah reunite and Ernestine mentors another slave.

Season 2, Episode 11 – The Expanse finally shows off some of its monsters in “Here There Be Dragons,” paying off one of its big mysteries in a satisfying way that leaves plenty of room for future plot development. Every character has a chance to test their integrity and to choose their own battles.

Season 3, Episode 12 – Empire has it’s first miss of the season, deciding to focus on Hakeem’s birthday and Jamal’s lovelife over the growing legal problems and Anika’s disappearance. The one breakout of the episode has been Nia Long as Giusa, a character who seems to be of an old Mafioso era giving Andre Lyon a real run for his money.

Season 1, Episode 19 – It started like yet another bad episode of Speechless – obvious setups, poorly drawn characters, and of all things, Ray involved in a pyramid scheme – but a change in tone regarding J.J.’s future brings a needed dose of reality to the series.

Season 2, Episode 12 – The penultimate episode of The Path has some shocking twists, setting up an explosive (literally) finale. However, despite the drama, Sarah and Hawk’s characterization continues to frustrate.

Season 1, Episodes 5-8 – The core episodes of 13 Reasons Why continue to tackle themes like sexuality, death, bullying, rape, and more with aplomb, proving why this show is necessary viewing.

Season 1, Episode 9 – The penultimate episode of Imposters starts to bring things to a close, though not without a few last-minute twists and turns to keep us on our seats. But really, how many times can they pull the “Ezra was in on it the whole time” scheme?

Season 5, Episode 1 – Prison Break returns in a nine-episode limited event series featuring the return of the original cast. While the pace moves swiftly, nostalgia overruns the premiere episode as we catch up with the team.

Season 5, Episode 5 – Noah Emmerich directs The Americans with a lot of love and Elizabeth makes a few big revelations on her deep cover mission in Kansas. Oleg faces a lovely ambush set by his father and decides to meet with the CIA. Mischa places a call to Philip but it’s Gabriel who shows up for the meet and greet.

Season 3, Episode 1 – iZombie returns with a whole new mission for the third season opener. Liv brings the team together to share their secrets. Clive struggles with his role in the new zombie-human dynamic and loses someone close. Vivian Stoll unveils her plans for the zombie future while Don E thaws the bane of Blaine’s past.

Season 1, Episode 2 – When Ben can’t find a sitter Alice is tasked with picking up Bunny from dance class. Meanwhile, Andy is avoiding driving at all costs.

Season 1, Episode 18 – A fun episode of Bull finds the show leaving behind the dramatics of last week to focus on a murder at Fashion Week. Chunk’s former mentor, a prominent fashion designer, is killed by a poisoned dress during her own show.

Season 1, Episode 18 – American Housewife teaches us that it is not cool to give up. If that’s the case, then I need to re-evaluate everything I’ve quit in life – jobs, relationships, projects, and “Luke Cage”. This week’s lesson is well-meaning but a little full of poo. IJS.

Season 4, Episode 16 – Agents of SHIELD rewrites the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe in “What If…” mixing together painstaking attention to MCU detail with a little real-world politics. The differences between SHIELD regular world and the alternate reality provide tension while nothing is changed so much that you divest from the story entirely.

Season 2, Episode 17 – Season 2 of Legends of Tomorrow wraps up this week with an action packed finale that will have you seeing double. The long awaited season finale has finally come, and it did not (in my opinion) disappoint.

Season 1, Episode 14 – The Mick shows the difficulties of motherhood, with Mickey taking a break from her role as head of the family and heading to the casino causes more chaos for the kids than usual.

Season 3, Episode 18 – After a hiatus, Fresh Off the Boat is back with wrestling fever. As an epic wrestling match sweeps Orlando, Jessica gets sick for the first time leaving the Huang men to their own devices as they scheme up a way to order the big Pay-Per-View event.

Season 1, Episode 7-8 – Trial & Error brings two back to back laugh out loud funny episodes, with huge pay offs and interesting plot twists.

Season 5, Episode 7 – Bates Motel is crazy af right now. Norman is fully aware of his insanity, but he continues to give in to it. Dylan, his brother, tries to help him, but he realizes he can’t when he witnesses Norman go into full scene mode with “Mother”.

Season 1, Episode 9 – APB is boosted this week by its dip into serialized storytelling, bringing storylines from past episodes back and setting up new surprising ones for future episodes.

Season 1, Episode 10 – With time running out, Eric and Rebecca must comply with Jadalla’s plans on an exchange in order to save John. With a bigger puppetmaster in play, a bigger conspiracy reveals itself as everyone comes together to take down Jadalla once and for all.

Season 1, Episode 6 – The action at home, not on the main mission of the week, was the only thing worthwhile in this otherwise very forgettable episode of Taken.

Season 2, Episode 8 – All hell has broken loose. Humans has unleashed all synths just to save one – Anita. Although Anita is certainly worth it, I can’t imagine how the synths’ new consciousness will affect the world.

Season 2, Episode 16 – Quantico brings an hour of TV this week that fires on all cylinders, mixing emotional character-driven moments with classic suspenseful action.

Season 1, Episodes 11-15 – Ingobernable wraps up its first season on a series of cliffhangers, opening the world of violence and corruption for a second season.

Season 1, Episode 5 – Dan and Chris travel back to 1919 Chicago to bet on the World Series in this week’s episode of Making History and it leads to them having a run in with Al Capone.

Season 1, Episodes 1-4 – Netflix’s newest series is based on the novel by Jay Asher – about a young girl who was there and then suddenly gone, through the eyes and ears of her classmate Clay Jensen. He’s a very important character in the 13 episode series and just one person of many trying to put the pieces together and find out why Hannah killed herself.