As Sundays go, it’s quite quiet for new shows or seasons save for one “memorial” docu-series by a visionary comic about one of his heroes who turned out to be also a monster. Many Sunday line-ups have new episodes, however. JASON’S PICK:We Need To Talk … Continue reading What To Watch: 01/30/2022
It’s the busiest Streaming Friday of 2022 so far, with multiple debuting titles with big name actors that straddle the line between what makes a comedy or a drama or a thriller. Oh, and the newest installments of two major animated franchises. And so, so … Continue reading What To Watch: 01/28/2022
School shootings are a thing that should not be, but they are frequent enough that they have filtered into the arts and made for some chilling movies, and the newest one comes with a lot of buzz. Our other recommendations for tonight come from the … Continue reading What To Watch: 01/27/2022
Alan Tudyk, and all his alien awkwardness, returns for a second season of one of Screen Scholars’ favorite new shows of 2021. Also, Ron Swanson tells us about American curlers and two misfits open the gates of hell. BRAD’S PICK:Resident Alien [Syfy, 9p]This quirky alien-out-of-water … Continue reading What To Watch: 01/26/2022
Tonight, we’ve got hard-hitting reporting about outsider communities from the famously edgy news source, a comedian shoots a special as he goes back to his roots, a soccer star gets the mini-series treatment, and one of the best new shows on television from one of … Continue reading What To Watch: 01/24/2022
Doozers are back… well, presumably they are still around in the latest reboot of the Henson creations. Also back is the show whose popularity was apparent in how many clickbait articles were taunting its fans by saying it would not be back for a fourth … Continue reading What To Watch: 01/21/2022
Our top two picks have one major thing in common–drinking, or more aptly the sober side of the wagon. One is a fictional dark comedy about a girl’s struggles to achieve sobriety, the other takes the format of a popular storytelling show featuring alcohol–but takes … Continue reading What To Watch: 01/20/2022
A classic ’00s/’10s sitcom tries a second time to change matriarch to patriarch–we’ll see if two’s a charm. This Tuesday is all about sitcoms as the three promising new ones all release new episodes. KATHERINE’S PICK:How I Met Your Father [Hulu]This standalone sequel to How I … Continue reading What To Watch: 01/18/2022
It’s a Saturday of a holiday weekend, so as could be expected there’s not much action, but there is a new SNL. It’s hard to tell what that will mean in this stage of the pandemic. When we last saw the players, they were understandably … Continue reading What To Watch: 01/15/2022
Tonight, we have the solo debut of Joel Coen–doing Shakespeare’s most cursed play no less–stop-motion cats, mice, and humans voiced by British movie and music stars, the first cis straight male queen to compete on drag’s premier show, as well as America’s third favorite fixer … Continue reading What To Watch: 01/14/2022
Screen Scholars 