Well, it’s about time. In the last moments of “Faith and Despondency” the truth about Tara’s murder is finally revealed. Of course this is done in a way that isn’t totally incontrovertible; I can already envision the seventy-minute fetch quest to find Gemma that will culminate in a dramatic cliffhanger. The thing about this episode…
While there are still some issues with American Horror Story: Freak Show, there’s no doubt in my mind that “Pink Cupcakes” is the first truly great episode of the season. It has immediately proven true that, with the introductions and lengthy preamble out of the way, the show can now launch headfirst into the stories…
By this point in Parenthood’s final season, your enjoyment of any given episode depends in large part on which characters you favor, and whether they appear in said episode. For instance, I enjoyed “These Are The Times We Live In” much more than last week’s episode, because I happen to like Julia and Drew best,…
Let’s get the record straight immediately: I am all about this episode of Scandal. “Baby Made a Mess” feels like a direct response to my biggest criticism of the season (and the series) to date, which is that the show has leaned too heavily on Olivia’s romantic life at the expense of her professional life.…
SPOILERS! It's ridiculous, unrealistic, and wonderfully dark, but also so entertaining. It probably won't win this year at the Emmys, but here are some reasons voters could cast their vote for House of Cards. "One heartbeat away from the presidency and not a single vote cast in my name..." Remember when Frank gave us this…
Reviewing Parenthood is always an interesting prospect for me. Coming up with a score can honestly feel a bit like alchemy. I love this show because it perfectly nails such significant minutiae of family life, like that little shrug Camille gives Julia after Kristina brings Joel on board at the school. You know they are…
“What a Piece of Work Is Man,” indeed. This week’s episode is still over-stuffed, and the pacing is drawn out at times, but it at least features periodic jolts of excitement in most of the ongoing stories. It at least raises stakes, and at least bothers to feign forward momentum on the season’s major arc. The…
About two thirds of the way through this week’s Parenthood, Jabbar asks Crosby a deceptively simple question: “How old is Grandpa?” And yet, it’s a question that gets to the heart of this final season. The show is called Parenthood. Confronting the reality that your parents get old is the perfect way to bring everything…
I’m not going to lie, that “three months later” title card pretty much blew my mind the first time I watched this episode. Not because anything particularly shocking happens as a result of it, but because it's the sort of thing that Parenthood wouldn’t typically do in previous seasons. Between seasons, maybe you would see…
It was an odd feeling watching this episode of Penny Dreadful. Up until this point every moment and scene was done to build to the conclusion of the last episode, which saw the assembling of the "monster hunting" team. There was a clear trajectory of every storyline that built upon each other until the series was…
