
TV: The Deuce
Nobody does television world-building like David Simon. Developed with long-time collaborator George Pelecanos, Simon’s latest extended HBO series, The…
May 4, 2021Nobody does television world-building like David Simon. Developed with long-time collaborator George Pelecanos, Simon’s latest extended HBO series, The…
May 4, 2021On paper, Netflix’s Tribes of Europa ought to be a slam dunk, or at least a lay-up. Lavish, post-apocalyptic,…
February 27, 2021If genre television’s recent track record is any indication, endings are difficult to nail. Certainly Battlestar Galactica and Lost…
October 25, 2020I came to Netflix’s new epic fantasy series The Witcher with no skin in the game. I hadn’t read…
December 24, 2019If you can revive a beloved television series, should you? In the era of Peak Television, Hollywood’s answer tends…
September 9, 2019A sumptuous science fiction series with thought-provoking worldbuilding, Netflix’s Altered Carbon, based on the novel by Richard K. Morgan,…
March 11, 2018The first season of Fortitude was a glorious achievement in genre television, so it’s unsurprising that its sequel year…
April 24, 2017Ian McDonald’s impressive body of work expands with Luna: New Moon (2015), the first half of an inventive, intense…
May 9, 2016One of TV’s best spy shows returns in MI-5 (aka Spooks: The Greater Good) (2015), a surprisingly effective coda to the series.…
January 3, 2016After a stirring first year, The 100 returns for a longer, more brutal, and even more compelling second season.…
December 13, 2015Say what you will about 24, it changed the landscape of television. It changed TV so drastically, in fact,…
November 9, 2014A couple of HBO shows recently wrapped their seasons: two drastically different sagas about awful people and power politics,…
June 16, 2014An unexpected benefit of the recent disruptive life dramas: more time for TV marathons. Turns out all those extra…
June 20, 2013Recently I looked back over my blog and realized I haven’t reviewed much television lately, a casualty of being…
July 27, 2012Anybody who’s interested in the current state of TV, and the programming strategies of the cable and network channels,…
June 15, 2011