First Impressions: Trophy Wife (ABC)
Trophy Wife’s pilot has some promise, thanks to a strong lead performance from Malin Ackerman.
Author: Randy Dankievitch
Randy is the founder of Processed Media and The Mid-Season Replacements Podcast, and a Rotten Tomatoes-approved TV critic. He's written about TV and culture across the internet since 2010, and also writes a monthly column for UpPortland Magazine.
First Impressions: The Goldbergs ‘The Circle of Driving’ – Don’t Poke The Bear
What’s most disturbing about The Goldbergs is not how unfunny it is or how broad and obvious its 1980’s references are, but in just how mean it is:
Review: Breaking Bad ‘Granite State’ – You Be The Judge
Despite being an obvious hint to where Walter White would end up in this episode (New Hampshire), ‘Granite State’ succinctly describes the situation most characters find themselves in.
Review: Sons of Anarchy ‘One One Six’ – I Don’t Care About People
Another episode full of Jax doing whatever the fuck he wants for himself, ‘One One Six’ spends its 56-minute time hacking off and cauterizing the school shooting plot it hung….
Season premiere review: New Girl ‘All In’ – Puzzle Me This
The second season finale of New Girl brought a lot of change to the show’s core dynamics, leaving us with a few cliffhangers (which is probably too strong of a word, in….
First Impressions: Brooklyn Nine-Nine ‘Pilot’ – Welcome to the Murder
Is it ironic – or the forces of yin and yang – that the worst comedy pilot of the fall is followed by the best?
First Impressions: Dad (Fox)
Dads lowers the bar for the 2013 fall season.
First Impressions: Sleepy Hollow ‘Pilot’ – Scratching the Surface
The first of the fall’s new network dramas, FOX’s Sleepy Hollow comes from Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, best known as producers on FOX’s last big serialized procedural, Fringe.
Review: Breaking Bad ‘Ozymandias’ – But We’re Family
When Walt began cooking meth at the beginning of Breaking Bad, we saw him as a desperate, dying man doing the only thing he knew how (chemistry) to leave his family….
Review: The Bridge ‘Old Friends’ – This Is Not A Game
In the few weeks since I last reviewed an episode of The Bridge, the show’s dramatically changed.