Category: First Impressions

Reviews of pilot episodes.

First Impressions: The Newsroom (HBO)

Aaron Sorkin Sorkins the shit out of The Newsroom – for better or worse.

Scandal’s pilot is a bit too ridiculous, even for this TV critic.

Magic City is flashy and fancy – but there’s not a lot of meat on the bone with Starz’s period drama.

Fox’s I Hat eMy Teenage Daughter is… real awful.

Hell on Wheels’ cliche-laden pilot is an unexciting add to the 2011 fall TV season.

Grimm’s nascent charms can’t help it escape a bad pilot script.

Allen Gregory’s nightmarish protagonist makes for a particularly unpleasant debut.

American Horror Story bears the creative signature of Ryan Murphy – and that’s not a good thing.

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.