TV Reviews

Season 1, Episode 18 – Yikes. Speechless goes to the grocery store, and the result is the worst episode of the season. Ray and Maya dispute about a car dent, Dylan and Jimmy steal soda, and J.J. is a human roadblock for a bad guy. Oh, and you won’t believe how Kenneth is shoehorned into this.

Season 2, Episode 9 – This week’s episode sets up the endgame of the season, as Eddie formally begins his journey towards taking over the movement while Abe uncovers the fact that Sarah blackmailed members into donating.

Season 1, Episodes 1-2 – It was a strong showing right out of the gate for NBC’s Trial & Error with the first two episodes premiering back to back. The writing is strong, the cast has the chops, and it is definitely worth your time.

Season 3, Episode 17 – Louis and Eddie’s guys weekend leads Eddie to invite his friends over too that leads to some unexpected hijinks. Meanwhile, Honey, Emery, and Evan take a road trip with Jessica that leads to the three being on high alert as to not make her angry.

Season 1, Episode 17 – Katie meddles in Viv’s marriage (Is this a surprise?). Katie tells her that she shouldn’t have to hide clothing purchases from her husband. If he gets upset, then he’s a douche. So, Viv leaves him. #WestportProblems. American Housewife is ridiculous. But good.

Season 2, Episode 8 – Li’l Fos makes his triumphant return to the mountain. G’win is very weak and fears she is dying, triggering a crisis for Big Foster. Gordon the anti-coal activist spends some time with Haley. Maybe the fight for Shay Mountain is only just beginning,

Season 1, Episode 6 – In a shocking twist of events, Imposters redeems its most boring character with the reveal that Patrick is an FBI agent who is playing Maddie as much as she is playing him. Meanwhile, Maddie’s con is almost compromised by her three exes out for closure and their money.

Season 3, Episode 16 – Barry resolves to enter the Speed Force to save Wally on The Flash this week as the team is still reeling from last week’s episode. While Barry encounters ghosts from his past, Jesse decides she will take on Savitar head on and alone.

Season 5, Episode 2 – The Americans keep watch on Alexei Morozov as he travels to secret farms in Illinois. Stan has a couple dates with his new love interest but gets pressure from the CIA to help recruit Oleg in Moscow. Elizabeth and Philip show Paige how to keep her head while she’s getting intimate with Matthew.

Season 2, Episode 14 – This week on Legends, we got real personal with all of our characters. The Legends’ mission is literally out of this world, as their hunt for the last piece of the Spear brings them to NASA. Meanwhile, trouble in paradise causes a petty Nate to reveal the unspeakable to Amaya.

Season 1, Episode 18 – This Is Us closes out its first season with a finale that can only be described as underwhelming.

Season 5, Episode 12 – This is an instant classic of an episode and one of the best the show’s ever done. The show hilariously and pointedly dissects white male privilege, as Mindy wakes up a white man played by the delightful Ryan Hansen.

Season 5, Episode 4 – Bates Motel makes it very clear that what’s-her-face is a thirst trap. Norman gives her his dead mother’s clothes. She ends up wearing them on their first date and seduces him while mixing cake batter. These strange people are made for each other.

Season 1, Episode 6 – Two talented guest stars make this week’s APB a tad more watchable, but it is still far from television’s best.

Season 1, Episode 7 – Superior Donuts tries to teach a lesson on unconscious racial bias. It’s hard to fault a show with such good intentions, but in its attempt to be inoffensive, it created a muddled, boring mess.

Season 1, Episode 3 – Taken takes us for another lackluster ride with more action paling in comparison to the original movies and boring attempts to make its characters seem sympathetic.

Season 1, Episode 7 – With time running out both Eric and Rebecca resort to desperate measures. Eric recruits Andy on a mission to rescue his family and destroy a USB drive, while Rebecca calls a old face from the show’s past to get a confession from Henry.

The film garnered acclaim at Sundance and turned the volume up a few of notches when it came to the conversation about identity politics. Now, with the new upcoming television adaptation, director Justin Simien plans to put the volume on blast with a series that allows the characters more room to grow with nuance and complexity that was originally planted with firm roots in the original film.

Season 2, Episode 5 – So, Humans is in the business of creating kid androids now? Oh, boy. Renie schools us when she says synthetics with green eyes are bonded while those with blue are un-bonded. A little boy with blue eyes shakes Pete’s hand. Is Pete there to buy him?

Season 1, Episode 2 – Following last week’s episode of Making History, which saw Daniel and Deborah traveling to present-day Boston only to realize that Chris is set to die in the very next day, the pair must return to the past to start the American Revolutionary War at the the Battle of Lexington.

Season 7, Episode 13 – The Walking Dead ends Morgan’s era of non-violence when one of Richard’s schemes turns a routine offering into a bloody engagement and costs the Kingdom one of their favorites. Carol discovers the truth about her friends at Alexandria and moves into the Kingdom to help Ezekiel prepare his people to fight the Saviors.

Season 2, Episode 4 – Chuck plays a long con against both his father and Boyd in this episode of Billions. Axe attempts to refine his image, but it backfires when he gets caught trying to take advantage of a Bill Gates type philanthropist, and loses any opportunity of acquiring an NFL team.

Season 1, Episode 3 – H.G., Jane, and Vanessa rush to repair the time machine in order to meet John’s demands: he promises to kill a new victim every twelve hours until he gets the time machine. Fortunately, he gets captured by a doctor who knows who he is, and intends to experiment on him.

Season 1, Episode 2 – In an episode too fixated on false melodrama, Feud undercuts its own excellent first episode by making men engineer the climax of Bette and Joan’s long-simmering feud on the set of their gothic horror film.

Season 1, Episode 4 – In this week’s episode, Pete learns a hard lesson in what it takes to get stage time in some of New York’s comedy clubs. Tasked with passing out fliers and driving in his own crowd to see him perform, Pete finds that the competition in NYC is all it’s been made out to be. Jermaine Fowler guest stars as a fellow comic forced with the menial task of what the insiders call “barking.”

Season 3, Episode 11 – A shocking twist finds our group in even more dire straits, but maybe Phil’s plan will help the group after all in this episode of The Last Man on Earth, which thankfully has a little bit of everything.

Season 1, Episode 4 – Big Little Lies gets it right again with a solid episode that doesn’t answer many questions but reveals plenty of new motives for the infamous Trivia Night killer.

Season 3, Episode 1 – American Crime starts off its third season strong, though simple, with a talented cast that makes the large group of characters feel very real.

Season 2, Episode 5 – Eve and Gemma search for who the third girl in the photograph is on The Missing, while Baptiste attempts to break through Mr. Stone’s Alzheimer’s to get to the truth. As Jorn and Baptiste connect the dots of who may be involved with the kidnapping of the girls a third suspect is revealed, and he kills to keep the information secret.

Season 1, Episode 5 – The specter of real world politics infiltrate’s week’s The-Good-Fight as the firm fights a TV network accused of pulling an episode to avoid upsetting the Trump administration.