Contributing Editor
Nathan Fillion, however, brings his easy-going charisma to The Rookie.
CW's latest teen drama seems awfully familiar.
Three new shows will make you ask, "Am I supposed to laugh here?"
It's neither funny, nor insightful. Why did it even come back?
New ABC show attempts to duplicate success of This Is Us.
Magnum P.I. gets a reboot, sans the charismatic lead.
The Warriors of Liberty City documents harsh lives in Miami through its children.
Rel and Kidding attempt to find comedy in failure and disaster.
Don't expect 10 hours of serial television to add more nuance.
CBS All Access show entertains, but its attempts at social relevance are dismal failures.
Netflix lands the Simpsons creator's latest show.
Maybe folks angry about "fat-shaming" should have seen an episode before freaking out?
Investigation Discovery documentary details the shooting death of a young man in police custody, absurdly framed as a suicide.
Not every random jerk's terrible opinion is worth a national spotlight.
Don't even stop for gas in this fictional Maine community.
Wacky rural northerners on parade
Heavy-handed writing fails to capture Gillian Flynn's dark energy.
What if everybody on the Food Network was high?
Book-based bioseries delves into the life of a rocket scientist with a dark side.
Also: Castle gets zombified from the television graveyard in the form of Take Two
Smithsonian Channel tells two-part story of the history of America's doomed booze crackdown.
Didn't get that beach body prepared? That's okay-grab some popcorn and hit the couch.
Documentaries for Memorial Day focus on the troops' experiences.
Lots of administration official log-rolling in The Final Year, but little actual analysis
Based on a series of books, Patrick Melrose is a misadventure into tiresome despair.
Tiny Shoulders tackles a culture war going back decades.
The Searcher focuses almost entirely on Presley as artist.
Also, the Smithsonian Channel presents another Waco siege documentary.
The best part: It's a documentary.
Meanwhile a new miniseries on AMC builds a horror mystery out of a failed Arctic expedition.
Some controversial behavior connected to the Communist Party gets played down.
Life Sentence and Champions have interesting ideas, lackluster execution.
Hulu adapts The Looming Tower into a 10-hour miniseries.
Generational coming-of-age storytelling conventions endure.
Jeffrey Toobin's book on the kidnapped heiress was a mess. This telling is much better.
The Trade offers access to cartels, addicts, and cops alike.
The facts don't add up in re-enactment of famous LSD death of Frank Olson.
Sharon Stone stars in a sometimes-confounding noir thriller.
New Showtime drama portrays drug and gang wars through the eyes of bystanders' lives.
Cliché-addled college sitcom lacks any sort of originality.
*Not that they all actually aired on television.
Jon Alpert spent decades asking incredibly dumb questions of Fidel Castro.
Joe McGinniss provides (posthumously) one last look at the Jeffrey MacDonald case.
Netflix sci-fi series draws comparisons to Stranger Things that do it no favors.
