Monday, June 30 2008
Crossing Jordan: Season 1
This star-vehicle about a dysfunctional forensic pathologist, alas, doesn’t burn too brightly.
Monday, June 27 2005
The 4400
The storyline pitches The 4400 deep into schlock sci-fi-horror territory: absolute power applied absolutely and also illogically, to maximize sensation.
Monday, January 3 2005
The 4400: The Complete First Season
The 4400 intimates that most of the returnees' integration problems boil down to fear approximating a post-9/11 'dread of difference'.
Monday, September 29 2003
Threat Matrix
Here's a terrorist threat that hasn't yet made a Fox News headline: bees.'
Sunday, January 1 1995
Crossing Jordan / Philly
Here are two shows that lift their premises, plotlines, and even their personality quirks from tv past and present, fritter away the skills of good actors, and lock skilled writers and producers into tired formulae.
