A review of the Winning Time season finale, “Promised Land,” coming up just as soon as I get you on a last-minute helicopter to Philadelphia… A surprising thing happens right after the opening credits to the finale: Jerry Buss begins talking directly to the audience. This is the first time …
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Ending its initial three-week run, Saturday Night Live closed with another strong episode that solidified this as one of the most promising seasons in several years. While more front-loaded than the first two episodes, this David Harbour-led installment reinforced its early patterns: celebrity-centric cold opens, a heaping help of Kate …
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A review of “The Bad Mother,” this week’s Big Little Lies, coming up just as soon as I don’t fit in my wedding dress anymore… When people talk about the talent involved in making Big Little Lies, the stars’ names understandably come up first. It’s such an impressive collection of …
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A review of “Get Lit,” this week’s Better Things, coming up just as soon as I have a note that allows me to chew gum on the bus… We’re nearing the end of a season that’s focused more on Sam’s career, her romantic life and her psyche than on her …
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Winter is here, and it’s taking us deeper into the world of Game of Thrones than ever before … in the opening credits, anyway. For its final season, HBO’s era-defining fantasy saga has given the famous clockwork map that accompanies Ramin Djawadi’s unmistakable opening theme a complete makeover. Instead of …
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Winter has come on Game of Thrones, but laughter barely did this week on Saturday Night Live. The Kit Harington-led episode suffered the same malaise as many middle episodes do in a three-week consecutive run: While it’s not fair to say the show should never do back-to-back-to-back episodes, you probably …
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In a True Detective hour where familiar symbols make a big, mind-blowing comeback, there’s a morbid and marvelous shot near the start of this week’s episode — “The Final Country” — that serves as a signifier all its own. It’s 1990, and detective Wayne Hays arrives at an unspecified crime …
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