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I’ve pointed out the potential of Brilliant Minds already, but I feel especially validated by Season 1, Episode 3, “The Lost Biker”. This, I think,...

Just like the field trip earlier in the season, the aptly-titled “Convention” gets the teachers out of the classroom. But even though Evan thinks that...

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon is improving, so that’s something. Season 2 is still wildly imperfect, but I didn’t spend Episode 2, “Moulin Rouge”, getting...

Travis Kelce is a handsome fellow, isn’t he? I bring this up since his much-advertised presence in Grotesquerie is the rare light spot in what...

Is Angela/Emily/Parwana dead? That’s certainly the question we’re left with by the end of The Old Man Season 2, Episode 5, though anyone who has...

Murders in picturesque local towns are like buses. You wait ages for one, and then several come along at once. That’s how it must feel...

I wasn’t sure about Brilliant Minds after a mixed-bag premiere, but I’m pleased to report that Season 1, Episode 2, “The Disembodied Woman”, is a really good...

The main joke of English Teacher Episode 6 isn’t that funny when you think about it. The youth of today is so sensitive, coddled, and reactionary that...

Sophie Turner’s post-Game of Thrones career hasn’t exactly been prolific, which is surprising. Anyone who survives eight seasons of that show – especially the last...

Episode 2 of The Penguin, “Inside Man”, is as good as the premiere was, which got me thinking. Why? That isn’t a trick question. There...

Industry Season 3 was never heading to a happy ending, but even I didn’t expect one quite so cynical as this. Episode 8, “Infinite Largesse”,...

Season 2 of The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon is subtitled The Book of Carol. I don’t like that for several reasons – “Book Of” sounds...

The pilot episode of Grotesquerie was fittingly grotesque, and Episode 2, “True Crime Catholics”, doesn’t exactly become a comedy. In fact, it might be even...

You can’t have a spooky season without a Ryan Murphy show, and Grotesquerie fits the bill. Episode 1 introduces a couple of complicated protagonists, an...

The Old Man feels different in Season 2; at this point, that’s undeniable. But in Episode 4 is starts to feel a bit more like its...

Season 1, Episode 1 of NBC’s Brilliant Minds is a mixed bag, but I’ll say this for it – it has a superb opening sequence....

The premiere of High Potential had everything a show like this needs, but if it was missing anything, one might suggest it was a streak...

ABC’s High Potential has a cracking elevator pitch – what if Good Will Hunting, but the janitor ends up being a police officer instead of...