Category: First Impressions

Reviews of pilot episodes.

First Impressions: Life in Pieces (CBS)

Despite its inventive format, Life in Pieces’ debut feels like a fairly conventional family sitcom.

Minority Report’s “Pilot” squanders its source material’s ideas for a lifeless, generic crime procedural.

Fear the Walking Dead’s family drama sinks its shaky, familiar pilot.

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.