First Impressions: Now Apocalypse (Starz)
Gregg Araki’s horny, brash Starz series debuts with an impressive, if familiar, pilot episode.
Category: Features
First Impressions: Altered Carbon (Netflix)
Altered Carbon has a lot of promise and spectacle, held back by some poor character and world building.
First Impressions: Riverdale (The CW)
Archie’s pilot is better than it has any right to be, a potential reimagining for the ages.
First Impressions: Dr. Ken (ABC)
Dr. Ken is one of 2015’s worst pilots.
First Impressions: Moonbeam City (Comedy Central)
Moonbeam City is too familiar and half-baked to be worth investing in.
First Impressions: The Whispers (ABC)
The Whispers is yet another paint-by-numbers mystery, in a television landscape already rotten with them.
First Impressions: One Big Happy (NBC)
One Big Happy is the latest in a growing line of major comedy misfires from NBC.
First Impressions: American Crime (ABC)
ABC’s John Ridley-led miniseries has an unbecoming sense of self-importance its pilot can never quite shake.
First Impressions: Secrets and Lies (ABC)
ABC’s soapy new drama has a few intriguing elements, but they’re obfuscated by the overabundance of tropes and cliches.
First Impressions: Backstrom (Fox)
Backstrom is another failed pile of white male angst cliches.