Welcome to what should be the final installment of these quick reviews for the time being. It’s taken a while, but I feel confident that I’ll have some full reviews on newer shows coming next week. As for this installment, we’ve got an OnlyFans dramedy, a dark look at male masculinity, and a small Massachusetts […]
Tag: drama
Best Medicine could use a better bedside manner
Through the years, American producers have sought inspiration from across the pond, taking Britain’s best shows and molding them to fit our cultural sensibilities. With a few notable exceptions, most of these shows fall flat in their execution. There are some things that can’t translate to a new audience. In recent years, reality and game […]
Television Turmoil: Manimal’s bad title and worse special effects made it a tough sell
Television Turmoil is a look at the worst and weirdest series to make their way onto the small screen. While it’s often overlooked, the title of a work does a lot of the heavy lifting with our first impressions. A bad or misunderstood name can immediately give a potential audience the wrong idea (just ask Cougar […]
Pluribus is a tantalizing sci-fi show impossible to resist
Before creating two of the greatest TV shows of all time, Vince Gilligan was a writer on The X-Files. For 8 seasons, he wrote some of the show’s best episodes and eventually became a co-executive producer. If there’s one thing to take away from Pluribus, Gilligan’s latest series,it’s that he hasn’t lost touch with his […]
Television Turmoil: Supertrain proved to be one of the costliest failures in TV history
There are few people in the 70s TV landscape as influential as Fred Silverman. Described as “The Man with the Golden Gut,” Silverman was renowned for his ability to pick out hit shows. This particular brand of executive-myth building started with stints on CBS and ABC, where he helped revitalize both networks and, in the […]