Category: Features

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.

The Odd Couple is a bad adaptation, and an unfunny, reductive waste of Matthew Perry’s talent.

Fresh Off the Boat’s uneven first episodes show real promise, even if its take on the American Dream is a bit unrefined.

Backstrom is another failed pile of white male angst cliches.

Prime Video’s gun manufacturer melodrama is an unfortunate misfire.

Salem Rogers is one of the worst pilots Amazon’s produced to date.

The Flash is here – and unsurprisingly, it’s the best new drama of the fall.

Stalker

CBS’s latest drama is shlocky, misogynistic, and woefully formulaic, an early contender for worst new show of the fall.

Features

Tonight’s fall preview looks at two new ABC comedies: Manhattan Love Story and Selfie.

How to Get Away with Murder is ridiculous, over-the-top, and full of legal nonsense… so why did I like it?