An army of the undead has taken over most of planet Earth, leaving the scattered survivors to try and figure out a way forward in a world that has turned totally upside-down. If that sounds like The Walking Dead, it certainly makes sense. But what if I told you there is another show that takes…
REVIEW: truTV’s ‘I’m Sorry’ Need Not Apologize
We have been waiting a long time for Larry David to come back to HBO with another edition of his smash hit Curb Your Enthusiasm, and our patience will soon be rewarded, when the show returns after a six-year hiatus this fall. Though David’s brand of cringe comedy appears relatively simple to create — put…
Guessing Game Of Thrones: Fear the Walking Dead
From the moment Ned Stark was beheaded in the second-to-last episode of the first season of Game of Thrones, it has been clear that no one is safe in Westeros. There is a certain presumption with most shows that the audience is going to identify with the main character, get invested in his or her…
#Bingeworthy: Season 3 of ‘Fargo’ Succeeds on the Strength of a Terrific Cast of Characters
Of the recently concluded third season of Fargo, Noah Hawley’s crime anthology series-slash-homage to all things Coen brothers, a wise Internet commenter sagely noted that “of all the seasons of Fargo, this was definitely one of them.” This is deceptively faint praise, because while is may be true that season 3 did not reach the…
EXCLUSIVE: Zach Cregger of ‘Wrecked’ on Shooting in Fiji, Playing it Straight, and Topping Season 1
When TBS’ Wrecked premiered last summer, it quickly won praise from critics and audiences, who responded to its fresh handling of material as old as the proverbial three-hour tour: the survivors of a plane crash try to survive on a desert island. Richly populated with modern archetypes, Zach Cregger’s Owen, a misanthropic flight attendant thrust…
Recap Digest: ‘Better Call Saul’ 3.10, “Lantern”
It became a kind of conventional wisdom that Better Call Saul is actually two shows in one, with the moral descent of Jimmy McGill occupying one half, and Mike Ehrmantraut’s descent into becoming Gus Fring’s right-hand man occupying the other. But while this third season certainly raised the stakes on the Mike side by reintroducing…
#Bingeworthy: Season 5 of ‘The Americans’ Moves Toward the Endgame
One of the few knocks on The Americans, which just finished its excellent (if low-key) fifth season last week and is sure to garner Emmy nods for stars Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys, has been that the show moves so deliberately that it can be hard to keep its many plot threads straight. While I…
Recap Digest: ‘Better Call Saul’ 3.9, “Fall”
“I sold my soul for B, I, N, G, and O! It’s a new game!” If there was any doubt after last week that Jimmy McGill is finally, truly breaking bad, treating a little old lady like a pawn — lying to her, lying to all her friends, isolating her so she’ll go for the…