we deserve better than rosewood
Fox is looking for a current cop or cop-adjacent procedural. It's part of a network's...
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killing fields and the discomfit of true crime tv
Discovery Channel's recent true-crime series Killing Fields follows an actual ongoing criminal...
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pitch is a promising show, but it hasn t lived up...
Fox’s Pitch,approximately the first female Major League Baseball player, has an appealing premise...
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cinemax s outcast approaches horror in the most...
Although it's too early to tell whether Outcast can sustain itself,this Cinemax horror series...
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hbos confirmation is a competent, but unremarkable...
Confirmation,about the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill scandal, is a satisfactory TV docudrama on an...
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why does fuller house exist?
The first four minutes of Fuller House are four of the most excruciating TV minutes ever broadcast;...
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in season two, mr. robot s biggest weakness is...
“All we enjoy is a garbled reality,a fuzzy picture we will never create out.” Our...
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nbc s timeless is a promising, appealing series
The time-travel adventure Timeless is a scarce network series that seems to absorb put a lot of...
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unbreakable kimmy schmidt is weirder, smarter, and...
The weirder and more random Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt gets,the more enjoyable it is. Season two of...
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hulu s the path is a good enough show
Dread and menace sustain The Path,a Hulu series about members of a modern-day cult that practices a...
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the new roots is more scathing and pulls fewer...
“They can save the chains on your body. Never let them save the chains on your mind.” The slave...
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cinemax s quarry is a one note show
Quarry,a present about a disillusioned Vietnam veteran (Logan Marshall-Green) boozing and glowering...
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amc s preacher is a peculiar show that both hits...
The AMC comedian-book series Preacher is loosely based on the 1990s Vertigo series by Garth Ennis...
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the good wife wasn t perfect, but what a great...
The slap and its aftermath in The Good Wife finale distilled the entire series into 60 seconds. It...
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the streaming revolution is here. but has it just...
Streaming outlets were supposed to provide us with shows that couldn't fit in the traditional...
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code black s excellent character actors make it...
There should be a Character Actor Hall of Fame. In front of it should be a statue of Luis Guzmán...
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flesh and bone is fairly engrossing if you can...
The original Starz series Flesh and Bone is filled with clichés,but they're melodrama...
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own s greenleaf is at its best when it focuses on...
The new OWN series Greenleaf is set in and around an African-American megachurch in...
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second chance is an eccentric sci fi show trapped...
The Frankenstein riff Second Chance is one of those distinctively Fox-network science-fiction...
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dr. ken, heal thyself
Here's hoping Ken Jeong is a better doctor than he is a sitcom creator,because holy lord, Dr....
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