First Impressions: Scandal (ABC)
Scandal’s pilot is a bit too ridiculous, even for this TV critic.
Category: First Impressions
Reviews of pilot episodes.
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.
First Impressions: Allen Gregory (Fox)
Allen Gregory’s nightmarish protagonist makes for a particularly unpleasant debut.
First Impressions: American Horror Story: Murder House (FX)
American Horror Story bears the creative signature of Ryan Murphy – and that’s not a good thing.
First Impressions: Whitney (NBC)
Whitney’s first episode is hopefully not a template for the sitcom to follow.
First Impressions: How To Be A Gentleman (CBS)
How to Be a Gentleman is a lazy, tired pile of cliches and unfunny jokes.
First Impressions: Charlie’s Angels (ABC)
Charlie’s Angels is a grating, nonsensically serious remake full of bad performances and worse ideas.