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TV Review: ABC's 'The River'
ABC premieres its new mockumentary-style thriller The River on Tuesday in a two-hour event beginning at 9 p.m. ET. The following are reviews from TV critics around the Web, compiled by B&C. “The River in its early hours doesn’t ask to be taken more seriously than as the long-form B-movie it is. Made with ingenuity and verve, it substitutes the half-glimpsed and suggestive for the ...... Read More
Comments (0)TV Review: NBC's 'Smash'
NBC premieres its musical drama, Smash on Feb. 6 at 10 p.m. ET. The following are reviews from TV critics around the web, compiled by B&C. “The big cast is appealing, especially Christian Borle and Debra Messing as the big-time songwriting team and Angelica Huston as a producer in a bad divorce. And the show looks great, except for a ludicrously airbrushed Times Square that could have b ...... Read More
Comments (0)TV Review: Netflix's 'Lilyhammer'
Netflix made all eight episodes of its new comedy-drama, Lilyhammer, starring The Sopranos’ Steven van Zandt, available Monday. The following are reviews from TV critics around the Web, compiled by B&C. “So how is Lilyhammer? Odd mostly. It tries to combine elements of American mob stories and Scandinavian mysteries, seasoned with frequent overt references to The Sopranos, but th ...... Read More
Comments (0)TV Review: Fox's 'Napoleon Dynamite'
Fox debuts its newest animated series, Napoleon Dynamite — based on the 2004 movie — on Jan. 15 at 8:30 p.m. ET. The following are reviews from around the web, compiled by B&C. “The animation is cool and it’s probably fun for fans to have the original cast doing all the voices. Would be nice if it was funny, too.” — Curt Wagner, Chicago Tribune “ ...... Read More
Comments (0)TV Review: Fox's 'The Finder'
Fox premieres procedural drama The Finder, a spinoff from Hart Hanson’s Bones, on Thursday night at 9 p.m. The following are reviews from TV critics around the Web, compiled by B&C. “The second half of the pilot improves over the first. So there’s progress. We’re hoping that, like Bones which also had a shaky start, The Finder will, umm, find itself after it gets a ...... Read More
Comments (0)TV Review: CBS' '¡Rob!'
CBS debuts its new comedy, ¡Rob!, created by and starring Rob Schneider, on Jan. 12 at 8:30 p.m. The following are reviews from TV critics around the web, compiled by B&C. “It’s hard to know what ¡Rob! is going for as a comedy, unless there’s some kind of prize for slothful execution with a blatantly obvious take on interracial marriage tossed in for spice.ȁ ...... Read More
Comments (0)TV Review: NBC's 'Are You There, Chelsea?'
NBC premieres its new sitcom Are You There, Chelsea? on Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. ET, starring Laura Prepon as a fictionalized version of E! host and comedian Chelsea Handler, who appears on the show as a supporting character. The following are reviews from TV critics around the Web, compiled by B&C. “The show’s just not as funny as Chelsea Handler is when she’s playing Chels ...... Read More
Comments (1)TV Review: 'CBS This Morning'
CBS premiered its revamped morning show CBS This Morning with anchors Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Erica Hill on Monday, Jan. 9 in a bid to up its third-place standing among the morning shows. The following are reviews from TV critics around the Web, compiled by B&C. “The best thing about the show, however, is that most of the time, all three hosts seemed perfectly at ease and confident ...... Read More
Comments (1)TV Review: ABC's 'Work It'
ABC premieres its new cross-dressing comedy Work It Jan. 3 at 8:30 p.m. The following are reviews from TV critics around the web, compiled by B&C. “Work It could be seen as an insult to the transgender community, sure. But it’s also an affront to all women, and men, and thinking adults.” — Alan Sepinwall, HitFix “I suppose the show could be offensive to tran ...... Read More
Comments (1)Critics React to 69th Annual Golden Globe Nominations
The nominees for the 69th Annual Golden Globes were announced Thursday, and as can be expected, television critics reacted with praise and outrage. Some notable names absent from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s list — dramas Breaking Bad and The Good Wife and comedies The Office and Parks and Recreation — drew ire from critics and fans. Also missing from the list wer ...... Read More
Comments (0)TV Review: Fox's 'I Hate My Teenage Daughter'
Fox debuts its new comedy, I Hate My Teenage Daughter on Wednesday, Nov. 30 at 9:30 p.m. ET. The following are reviews from TV critics around the web, compiled by B&C. “So you have a comedy without the nerve to be about what it says it’s about, one that tiptoes close to the edge and then repeatedly backs off, and actually winds up more unpleasant as a result. I dislike all the ce ...... Read More
Comments (0)TV Review: AMC's 'Hell on Wheels'
AMC premieres its original Western series Hell on Wheels on Sunday at 10 p.m. ET. The following are reviews from TV critics around the Web, compiled by B&C. “Never, in the episodes I watched, did I feel as if I were actually seeing how a railroad got built, and sometimes it took a bit of squinting not to see the characters as actors in a field, reading lines. Still, for all the unlikely ...... Read More
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