Anyone in for Streaming Thursday? Perhaps its the anticipation of the long weekend, but there’s a definitive rush of new content that has spilled from tomorrowland into this week’s Thursday. And apologies for writing that sounds like it’s out of an internet translator from 2003. … Continue reading What To Watch: 07/01/2021
Reality used to be a friend of ours, and it often still is. All three of our staff recommendations for tonight fall into that category in one way or another–although two of them are more traditional documentaries: both looking at the underside of sports. Our … Continue reading What To Watch: 06/24/2021
It’s a day of trophies both tangible and in the form of admission to sports’ most exciting tournament. It’s squeaky-voiced teen and Jason’s least favorite award night, The Grammys. A few hours earlier 68 colleges’ names will be paired with numbers from 1 through 16 … Continue reading What To Watch: 03/14/2021
It’s one of those rare nights when all of our recommendations are from traditional appointment TV. Our main source of excitement comes from the return of one of the most satisfying heist shows outside of Spain, as Retta, Meg, and Christina return with all the … Continue reading What To Watch: 03/07/2021
Sadly, our original featured pick has become more conspicuous for its absence. Hasan Minhaj’s voice is sorely needed, but we understand as of all the late night shows, his is the one most dependent on audience participation. Hopefully he’s OK and we’re sure when he’s … Continue reading What To Watch: 03/29/2020
There’s so many things on tonight, we can’t get all of them and frankly we don’t really even have time for this intro. KATHERINE’S PICK: War of the Worlds [EPIX, 9p] Gabriel Byrne and Elizabeth McGovern star in a modern-day adaptation of h.G. Wells’ famously … Continue reading What To Watch: 02/16/2020
We’re wrapping up the May cavalcade of season finales, and tonight we have two of the better shows on television bowing out for the year. We also rec an animated version of the current presidency and that reality show where naked people are dropped into … Continue reading What To Watch: 05/26/2019
While spring’s Sweeps Month is traditionally the one we are in now, it was last Sunday, still safely in the midst of April showers that HBO and others delivered knockout blows as the dragon show had its epic record-setting battle, the hit-man program whipped … Continue reading What To Watch: 05/05/2019
It’s the night of the great battle — we’re talking long enough for Roddy Piper to get Keith David to put on the glasses six-plus times (THEY MATH!). There’s also a new hard-hitting show from a controversial Obama appointee, the sixtieth on-air show that Greg … Continue reading What To Watch: 04/28/2019
While dragons and sweet soul music are both valid ways to celebrate the resurrection, we’re gonna lead today with Katherine and her on-the-nose classic flix pick. KATHERINE’S PICK: Easter Parade [TCM, 8p] It’s not perfect, but you can do a lot worse (Mel Gibson’s Passion … Continue reading What To Watch: 04/21/2019
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