Setting: The break room of a depressing office building. Charles, a high functioning alcoholic, sits alone nursing a cup of coffee and fighting a massive hangover. He scrolls through his phone and continually loosens his tie. Enter Daniel, a low functioning alcoholic who has bits of egg on his face. He seems very upset....

Preacher looks and acts like a prestige drama. The pilot episode took its time establishing the characters and setting up their world, there were meaningful conversations about faith, more than a few hints about the titular hero’s tragic backstory, loads of questions with hardly any answers, and some not-so-subtle social commentary. A passing glance at...

Unless you are a crazy TV buff who is perfectly in tune to every single series out there, you quite possibly could have missed the premiere of the fantastic new drama Underground.  This is a show that follows the story of slaves on a plantation in Georgia in the 1850’s that are preparing to...

Last week saw Netflix drop the second season of a brilliant, critically acclaimed crime drama. Nope, not Daredevil. I’m talking about the outstanding Happy Valley. Adored by critics here and across the pond, the show has failed to catch on with American audiences the way programs like Broadchurch or The Fall have. If those...

Season two of Daredevil dropped onto Netflix yesterday and I watched all 13 episodes in a binge. To the show’s credit, the time flew by pretty damn quickly. I was a huge fan of season one, being most impressed by Marvel finally willing to go a little darker. The characters were compelling, the fights...

On the eve of The People Vs. O.J. Simpson’s premiere I wrote that I wanted the show to either be the most gloriously trashy thing to ever hit TV screens or the best drama of all time.  Anything in between would be unacceptable.  So which was it? Well, neither actually.  The show does have trash elements–we’ll get...

Short answer: Yes. Long answer: Like many people, I had my doubts about Better Call Saul before it premiered last year.  I wondered how this one joke character could carry his own series.  I worried about the tone; would it be too much of a goof or would it try too hard to capture the tension...

The year is almost at an end and that means one thing for people who write about movies and TV: it’s time for LISTS!!! Best of, Worst of, Most Bizarre, Most Disappointing, you name it and we’ll list it.  We do this cuz we’re a bunch of opinionated assholes with too much time on...

Rectify concluded it’s third season on Thursday night and I’m sure that virtually none of you were aware of this.  Hell, you probably weren’t even aware of its existence.  It’s on a channel that everyone has but no one watches (Sundance), it doesn’t have an immediately engaging hook like ‘Sopranos in Middle Earth‘ or ‘Mr. Chips...

Trying to get people to watch Hannibal is as difficult as trying to convince someone to change their political beliefs.  It’s frustrating, fruitless, and ends with both people mad at each other.  Seriously, this is how it goes nearly every time I try to tell a friend they should give it a shot: ME: Hannibal is the best...