Category: First Impressions

Reviews of pilot episodes.

First Impressions: Whitney (NBC)

Whitney’s first episode is hopefully not a template for the sitcom to follow.

How to Be a Gentleman is a lazy, tired pile of cliches and unfunny jokes.

Charlie’s Angels is a grating, nonsensically serious remake full of bad performances and worse ideas.

Pan Am’s impeccable aesthetics and underutilized performers make for an odd mix.

FOX’s expensive, high-profile dinosaur series is the weakest, most impotent new series of the fall.

Free Agents might be onto something, if it can realize its promise as a rom-com dramedy.

2 Broke Girls is a tired rehashing of many jokes and concepts from other, better series.

New Girl

New GIrl’s pilot is a too much quirk and not enough comedy.