It’s Halloween, and we’ve got alien abduction … and baking? Oh, and the POTUS in a pumpkin patch, chilling with one of the best new voices on faux news as both try to avoid a faux president. JASON’S PICK: People of Earth [TBS, 9p] The most … Continue reading What to Watch: 10/31/2016
Sunday builds the drama (with just a touch of awkward comedy) with a bunch of unlikely heroes staring directly just off the camera. KATHERINE’S PICK: Poldark [PBS, 9p] I don’t know, some stuff happens and then Poldark’s shirt comes off…in what is sure to be a … Continue reading What to Watch: 10/30/2016
Boo! A Madea Halloween crushed the box office last weekend with $28 million. We have only one big release this weekend, the latest entry in Dan Brown’s global conspiracy series, starring America’s aged dad, Tom Hanks. Finding Babel is a documentary. It follows Andrei Malaev-Babel, … Continue reading Weekend Box Office: October 28, 2016
After last week’s ripped-from-the-headlines stinker, it only seems right that we examine a true life story that won’t leave our faith in the film industry shaken. Again turning to Netflix, let us praise The Ryan White Story, a better-than-averave biopic that is also devoid of matricide. … Continue reading The Ryan White Story was Way Too Good for TV
KATHERINE’S PICK: Rectify [Sundance, 10p] America’s best, and most overlooked, show begins its final and fourth season tonight. Daniel’s small town is still trying to throw him back onto death row for the crime he probably? didn’t commit, but he is trying to rebuild his … Continue reading What to Watch: 10/26/2016
Election season has collided right with the center of Halloween season and strangely enough, most of us here are not sick of it. JASON’S PICK: Adam Ruins Everything: Election Special [TruTV, 10p] This strikes me as a set-up to exactly the sort of “your vote means … Continue reading What to Watch: 10/25/2016
There’s got to be a morning after. And this time of year there’s plenty to take your mind off of mourning beloved characters — or the end of the weekend, if you happen to not be one of the millions watching a certain AMC show. … Continue reading What to Watch: 10/24/2016
On a night when almost all the oxygen was sucked out by the “Who Did Negan Kill?” cliffhanger — and by the way, scroll way, way, way down to see how that fared in the Monday papers (hint: not good), it’s Issa Rae’s HBO adaptation … Continue reading Sunday’s Best Reviewed: Insecure
The Walking Dead – B- You know what, Walking Dead, you can kindly go fuck yourself (or what Mr. Ford said would do just dandy). To twice save Glenn only to cruelly lead him to the exact same fate as in the comic — while admittedly … Continue reading Our Sunday Reviews
Negan towers over tonight’s programming as it is Judgment Day 20?? (2012 Prime?) as we finally find out which of the nine beloved characters or Carl feels the wrath of Negan’s barbed bat Lucille. And there’s even other stuff on. And football. In the morning … Continue reading What to Watch: 10/23/2016
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