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
If you’ve followed politics at all and are over a certain age, you’ll surely heard the folly of the NRA/Repiblicans constant call of “so & so wants to take your guns.” It’s been said of every Democratic president since at least Jimmy Carter, all of … Continue reading What To Watch: 05/12/2021
The first female five-timer on SNL and one of television’s great comedy legends, Candice Bergen, returns to television as an extended member of the family Conner. Every year the “spin-off” lasts is a joyful slap in the face to every Parler member. Wait, Parler has … Continue reading What To Watch: 01/13/2021
Some scripted television is starting to trickle back, and in a weird twist, it’s procedurals that rule the day — when you’re living that active procedural show life, the masks are barely noticable. Besides, these shows are from the headlines rip’d, so made for Pandemic … Continue reading What To Watch: 11/11/2020
It’s Prom Night on ABC which might bring up all sorts of feelings this year, but one of the coolest things about the line-up is that the shows take place all over the map, decades-wise, so we’re bound to see so much deliciously bad fashion. … Continue reading What To Watch: 05/13/2020
It’s all about Michelle today as one of the few universally popular figures in the political world sees her blockbuster memoir gets the Netflix documentary treatment. Meanwhile, those mothers with jobs return for a second season, while (along with Mrs. Obama) we tout the supernatural. … Continue reading What To Watch: 05/06/2020
eerfeeefe JASON’S PICK: Full Frontal with Samantha Bee [TBS, 10:30p] With her husband, fellow ex-Daily Show correspondent and TBS star Jason Jones, on camera and kids holding cue cards, Samantha Bee returns to the airwaves in her first post-Trump Pandemic full show. Her take on … Continue reading What To Watch: 03/25/2020
While the trial in AMC’s latest documentary shares many surface aspects to the Central Park Five case dramatized in the brilliant Netflix series — both concern violent crimes that took place in New York’s Central Park in the 1980s — the case of Robert Chambers … Continue reading What To Watch: 11/13/2019
It’s the one borough not on an island, it gave us hip-hop (which should be enough on its own) and the Yankees (could be a few points for or against), and its also where one of us was born and two of us attended school … Continue reading What To Watch: 10/30/2019
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was making us believe a fourth season would not exist. But here we are and, after vanishing Keyser Soze-style, Lucifer with a full season to binge on Netflix. Our guess is, after that, you will never hear from again. … Continue reading What To Watch: 05/08/2019
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