First Impressions: Brothers (Apple TV+)
Brothers is three different TV shows rolled into one: a solid buddy sitcom, a hilarious, bumbling adventure of self-discovery – and, unfortunately, a dreadful, navel-gazing vanity project for one of its leads.
Category: First Impressions
Reviews of pilot episodes.
First Impressions: Line of Fire (NBC)
Line of Fire’s “Pilot” is a strange, overstuffed amalgamation of undercooked ideas and characters.
First Impressions: CIA (CBS)
The latest Wolf-ian procedural drama is a flat, lifeless waste of Tom Ellis.
First Impressions: The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins (NBC)
NBC’s new Tracy Morgan-led comedy is a great vehicle for its stars, but needs a bit of refining to become a memorable sitcom.
First Impressions: Memory of a Killer (Fox)
Fox’s high-concept Patrick Dempsey vehicle is a stiff adaptation with a lot of unrealized potential.
First Impressions: Best Medicine (Fox)
Fox’s adaptation of Doc Martin levies its many archetypes and cliches with surprising sparks of personality.
First Impressions: It: Welcome to Derry (HBO)
HBO’s highly-anticipated It prequel arrives with a bang – one it can’t quite sustain through its first hour.
First Impressions: DMV (CBS)
CBS’s only new sitcom of the fall is a mildly intriguing workplace comedy, albeit with a rather inert pilot episode.
First Impressions: The Lowdown (FX)
The Lowdown kicks off its western crime drama with a terrific lead performance and an assured sense of self, making for one of 2025’s best pilot episodes.
First Impressions: Duster (Max)
Duster’s confident, if familiar, first hour makes for an promising debut.