DRAMA
TRUE BLOOD Season 6 Premiere Review
HBO’s TRUE BLOOD season six premiere, “Who Are You, Really?” takes place on the night that season five ends. It would be extremely difficult to do a time jump, as the series has before, given the dire circumst...
MAGIC CITY Season 2 Premiere Review
Starz’s MAGIC CITY second season premiere, “Crime and Punishment,” picks up right where season one leaves off. Ike (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is still in jail for murder, and various people want him out for various reasons. Will Ike...
KING & MAXWELL Review
TNT’s KING & MAXWELL is the newest crime drama from the cable network. In the vein of such series as Rizzoli & Isles, Castle, Bones, Psych, and Franklin & Bash, two charismatic leads break the rules and go outside t...
FALLING SKIES Review
TNT’s FALLING SKIES returns this Sunday with two new hours, “On Thin Ice” and “Collateral Damage.” The story picks up seven months after season two’s finale, with the 2nd Mass now firmly ensconced in Charleston, their populatio...
CONTINUUM Season 2 Premiere Review
SyFy’s Candian import CONTINUUM returns tonight for a second season. The premiere, “Second Chances,” picks up a little bit after the first season ended, with several of the primary characters still dealing wit...
GRACELAND Review
In keeping with the trend begun by Suits and Political Animals, USA’s latest drama, GRACELAND, features fully-fleshed out characters in complex, compelling situations. Created by White Collar brain Jeff Eastin, and based on a t...
BURN NOTICE Review
As USA’s final season of BURN NOTICE begins this week with “New Deal,” Michael Weston (Jeffrey Donovan) hasn’t been heard from by his loved ones for nine months. He’s deep undercover in the Dominic Republic, and all they know i...
THE FOSTERS Review
ABC Family’s newest foray into hour-long drama is THE FOSTERS, premiering tonight at 9 p.m. ET. It’s about two moms raising a bunch of children, most starting as foster children, in their blended household. In the f...
MISTRESSES Review
ABC is delivering a fresh, new series this summer beginning tonight at 10 p.m. ET called MISTRESSES. Based on the British series of the same name, MISTRESSES follows four female friends (two of them sisters) and their love live...
THE KILLING Season 3 Premiere Review
About a year after its cancellation, THE KILLING returns to AMC with the two-hour opener of season three. Titled “The Jungle; That You Fear the Most,” the story picks up a year after the events of the Rosie Larsen c...
BEHIND THE CANDELABRA Review
HBO generally does a great job with their original films, and the latest, BEHIND THE CANDELABRA, which premiered last night, is no different. The movie details the relationship between famous performer Liberace (Michael Douglas...
MOTIVE Review
ABC’s newest drama, premiering tonight, is MOTIVE. Detective Angie Flynn (Kristin Lehman, The Killing) is a tough single mother and homicide detective with a killer instinct, so to speak. She, more than anyone else in her depar...
ONCE UPON A TIME RECAP Season 2 Episode 22 And Straight On ‘Til Morning
ABC’s ONCE UPON A TIME ended their freshman run with a completely unexpected development which completely changed the focus of the series. This week’s sophomore season finale, “And Straight on ‘Til Morni...
ONCE UPON A TIME Review Season 2 Episode 21 Second Star To The Right
ABC’s ONCE UPON A TIME begins its two-part sophomore finale this week with “Second Star to the Right.” A young Bae (Dylan Schmid) falls through the portal in fairytale land and ends up in London, England. There, he meets the Da...
ONCE UPON A TIME Review Season 2 Episode 20 The Evil Queen
As ABC’s ONCE UPON A TIME builds towards its sophomore finale, “The Evil Queen” takes a moment to examine what it means to be evil. In Fairy Tale Land, we see Regina (Lana Parrilla) order the death of a village full of people b...
ONCE UPON A TIME Review Season 2 Episode 19 Lacey
ABC’s ONCE UPON A TIME breaks a long hiatus this week with “Lacey.” Regina (Lana Parrilla) helps Belle (Emilie de Ravin) get her memories back, but not her fairy tale ones. Mr. Gold (Robert Carlyle) is not too...
HEMLOCK GROVE Review
Netflix’s latest drama is called HEMLOCK GROVE. Based on the novel of the same name, HEMLOCK GROVE begins with kinky sex and the murder of a teenager, which are unrelated, I think, but make for a one-two punch with some serious...
THE BORGIAS Season 3 Premiere Review
Rodrigo Borgia (Jeremy Irons), the lead in Showtime’s THE BORGIAS, has stared into “The Face of Death,” and as season three begins, the wait is on to see if he returns to talk about it. It’s not much of ...
DA VINCI’S DEMONS Review
Starz is launching a new series this week called DA VINCI’S DEMONS. Yes, that title refers to the famous artist and dreamer Leonardo Da Vinci. But rather than seeing an old, brilliant man, as most screen portrayals of the...
HANNIBAL Series Premiere Review
NBC jumps on the serial killer bandwagon with its new drama series, HANNIBAL. The first episode, premiering tonight at 10 p.m., is called “Apéritif,” which, for those not familiar with the term, is an alcoholic drin...
THE WALKING DEAD Recap Season 3 Episode 16 Welcome To The Tombs
AMC’s THE WALKING DEAD completes its third season with “Welcome to the Tombs.” The Governor (David Morrissey) takes most of his people out to slaughter the prison group. Upon arriving, they find a seemingly empty prison, and th...
