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TV Review: USA's 'Graceland'
USA premieres new cop drama Graceland, following a group of undercover agents, on Thursday at 10 p.m. The following are reviews from TV critics around the Web, compiled by B&C. “Graceland tries to shift the balance a little, adding a moodier, grimmer underworld ambience and a more lasting sense of menace to balance all the sand and surf. But the series needs to work more on the writing ...... Read More
Comments (0)TV Review: ABC's 'Mistresses'
ABC premieres new soapy drama Mistresses, following a group of four women, on Monday at 10 p.m. ET. The following are reviews from TV critics around the Web, compiled by B&C. “The new ABC series isn’t good in any way, except in its ability to suck you in with pretty actors and titillating themes. The writing is stock, the acting is hollow, and the direction is perky and workmanli ...... Read More
Comments (0)TV Review: Netflix's 'Arrested Development'
Netflix released the much-hyped fourth season of cult comedy Arrested Development - all 15 episodes of it - on Sunday, May 26. Many critics, against the advice of creator Mitch Hurwitz, binge-watched the entire season. The following are reviews from those critics, compiled by B&C. “[T]here was something forcing me to watch 15 episodes of Arrested Development Season 4 in only 15 hours&#x ...... Read More
Comments (0)TV Review: NBC's 'Save Me'
NBC premieres comedy Save Me, starring Anne Heche as a woman who communicates with God after a near-death experience, premieres Thursday at 8 p.m. The following are reviews from TV critics around the Web, compiled by B&C. “[T]he program is at least initially too mired in sitcom conventions and flourishes - including musical riffs seemingly lifted straight out of Desperate Housewives - t ...... Read More
Comments (0)TV Review: ABC's 'Motive'
ABC premieres new Canadian police procedural Motive on Monday at 10 p.m. The following are reviews from TV critics around the Web, compiled by B&C. “The characters don’t feel any richer here than they do on CBS’ various cop shows, and the series doesn’t even commit to how much it wants to keep you guessing about why the crime occurred.” –Alan Sepinwall ...... Read More
Comments (0)TV Review: Fox's 'The Goodwin Games'
Fox finally premieres comedy The Goodwin Games, announced during last year’s upfronts, on Monday at 8:30 p.m. The following are reviews from TV critics around the web, compiled by B&C. “If you think of The Goodwin Games more as a tax write-off than a TV sitcom, you may approach it in a more accepting mood, though even that may not be enough to get you to stick with it throug ...... Read More
Comments (0)Book Review: 'Top of the Morning' by Brian Stelter
By Michael Malone Grand Central Publishing 301 pages Successful books—successful anythings, for that matter—require talent, hustle and a bit of luck. Brian Stelter, New York Times reporter and author of Top of the Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV, knew he had the first two when he took on this project. The third one fell in his lap, as NBC cut Ann Curry from the Toda ...... Read More
Comments (0)TV Review: ABC's 'Family Tools'
ABC premieres new sitcom Family Tools, based on the British series White Man Van and starring Kyle Bornheimer, Leah Remini and J.K. Simmons, on Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. ET. The following are reviews from TV critics around the Web, compiled by B&C. “With Tools, there is no discernible style, or point of view, or voice, or humor that ever rises to the level of originality. That’s a sha ...... Read More
Comments (1)TV Review: NBC's 'Hannibal'
NBC premieres its prequel drama Hannibal, which re-introduces FBI agent Will Graham and his mentor Dr. Hannibal Lecter from the novel Red Dragon, on Thursday at 10 p.m. The following are reviews from TV critics around the Web, compiled by B&C. “[Hugh] Dancy is a perfect, tortured soul; [Laurence] Fishburne is everyman with a brain; and Mads Mikkelsen is perfectly named. What is lacking, ...... Read More
Comments (0)TV Review: ABC's 'How to Live With Your Parents (for the Rest of Your Life)'
ABC premieres new sitcom How to Live With Your Parents (for the Rest of Your Life), starring Sarah Chalke as a mother who moves back in with her eccentric parents, on Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. ET. The following are reviews from TV critics around the Web, compiled by B&C. “[T]here’s nothing new or even necessarily awful about TV shows sharing plot points. What’s more damaging ...... Read More
Comments (0)TV Review: A&E's 'Bates Motel'
A&E premieres its new drama Bates Motel, a prequel of Hitchcock’s Psycho, on Monday at 10 p.m. ET. The following are reviews from TV critics around the Web, compiled by B&C. “The combined talents and pedigrees of executive producers Carlton Cuse (Lost) and Kerry Ehrin (Friday Night Lights) may be why Bates Motel got made despite the string of unsuccessful sequels to the origi ...... Read More
Comments (0)TV Review: History's 'Vikings'
History Channel debuts its first original scripted series Vikings on March 3 at 10 p.m. The following are reviews from TV critics around the Web, compiled by B&C. “The characters are interesting, many of the details of Viking life and culture are intriguing, and the performances are all quite good. And yet the show has no compelling arc, and only brief flare-ups of action.” ...... Read More
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