Category: First Impressions

Reviews of pilot episodes.

First Impressions: Moonbeam City (Comedy Central)

Moonbeam City is too familiar and half-baked to be worth investing in.

The Whispers is yet another paint-by-numbers mystery, in a television landscape already rotten with them.

One Big Happy is the latest in a growing line of major comedy misfires from NBC.

ABC’s John Ridley-led miniseries has an unbecoming sense of self-importance its pilot can never quite shake.

ABC’s soapy new drama has a few intriguing elements, but they’re obfuscated by the overabundance of tropes and cliches.

The Odd Couple is a bad adaptation, and an unfunny, reductive waste of Matthew Perry’s talent.

Backstrom is another failed pile of white male angst cliches.

Prime Video’s gun manufacturer melodrama is an unfortunate misfire.

Salem Rogers is one of the worst pilots Amazon’s produced to date.

The Flash is here – and unsurprisingly, it’s the best new drama of the fall.