First Impressions: Animal Practice (NBC)
Animal Practice has all the tenets of a cult comedy, but its pilot is way too unrefined to work.
Category: First Impressions
Reviews of pilot episodes.
First Impressions: Go On (NBC)
Go On’s pilot has a lot of promising elements that are mostly unrealized by an underwhelming pilot.
First Impressions: Perception (TNT)
TNT’s Eric McCormack-led drama is a bad pilot built on a tired formula.
First Impressions: Anger Management (FX)
Multi-camera sitcoms are dying a slow, painful death on networks with shows like 2 Broke Girls and Whitney, whose ability to be both mindless and unfunny simultaneously is somehow perceived….
First Impressions: The Newsroom (HBO)
Aaron Sorkin Sorkins the shit out of The Newsroom – for better or worse.
First Impressions: Scandal (ABC)
Scandal’s pilot is a bit too ridiculous, even for this TV critic.
First Impressions: Magic City (Starz)
Magic City is flashy and fancy – but there’s not a lot of meat on the bone with Starz’s period drama.
First Impressions: I Hate My Teenage Daughter (Fox)
Fox’s I Hat eMy Teenage Daughter is… real awful.
First Impressions: Hell on Wheels (AMC)
Hell on Wheels’ cliche-laden pilot is an unexciting add to the 2011 fall TV season.
First Impressions: Grimm (NBC)
Grimm’s nascent charms can’t help it escape a bad pilot script.