Recent TV Reviews

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Thursday, September 24 2009

Fringe: Season Two Premiere

By Lesley Smith

Unlike her TV predecessors, Olivia is not moved by transcendent belief or duty. Uncertainty hurts her.

Tuesday, September 22 2009

The Forgotten: Series Premiere

By Cynthia Fuchs

The Forgotten's slick look doesn't exactly make up for its dearth of originality.

The Good Wife: Series Premiere

By Cynthia Fuchs

Julianna Margulies and Archie Panjabi's performances -- crisp and nuanced -- go a long way toward smoothing over the rough edges of their characters' obvious "types."

Monday, September 21 2009

Independent Lens: Our Disappeared / Nuestros Desaparecidos

By Cynthia Fuchs

This idea of "looking into" a painful history permeates Juan Mandelbaum's documentary, Our Disappeared/Nuestros Desaparecidos.

Friday, September 18 2009

Bored to Death: Series Premiere

By Daynah Burnett

Bored to Death indulges a decidedly male fantasy for New York creative intellectualism in the same way Entourage does for Hollywood’s struggling actors-turned-stars.

Thursday, September 17 2009

Community: Series Premiere

By Daynah Burnett

Before you can say "The Breakfast Club," Community begins challenging stereotypes while also arguing that community college is one of the great equalizers.

Bones: Season Five Premiere

By Leigh H. Edwards

The new season of Bones brings Cyndi Lauper guesting as a psychic, the return of Seeley Booth's funky socks, as well as the best screwball romantic team on TV.

Wednesday, September 16 2009

Melrose Place: Series Premiere

By Todd R. Ramlow

Melrose Place suggests that with the evolving sophistication of video technology, the distinction between "porn" and "reality" is increasingly blurred.

Tuesday, September 15 2009

POV: The Principal Story

By Cynthia Fuchs

In The Principal Story, premiering tonight as part of PBS' POV series, principal Tresa Dunbar is visibly empathetic with her stressed out faculty members.

Monday, September 14 2009

Hoarders

By Marisa Carroll

Hoarders vividly illustrates the psychological effects of hoarding, the feelings of shame, worthlessness, and despair caused by living in an uncontrollable mess.

Wednesday, September 9 2009

Glee: Series Premiere

By Chris Barsanti

Glee exists in a sort of hyper-real universe, where the colors are always quite a bit brighter and people just that much sharper and stranger.

So You Think You Can Dance: Season Six Premiere

By Marisa LaScala

The push and pull between the dancers and the choreographers distinguishes So You Think You Can Dance.

Tuesday, September 8 2009

The Last Truck

By Cynthia Fuchs

The Last Truck seems like the GM plant workers' own creation, a commemoration of their devotion to their work and one another.

Friday, September 4 2009

Manson

By Chadwick Jenkins

In a manner of speaking, nobody is responsible for the Tate-LaBianca killings; and that nobody is Manson.

Thursday, September 3 2009

Soul of a People: Writing America’s Story

By Rodger Jacobs

Federal funding for the arts in the U.S. was a contentious issue for FDR's Works Progress Administration.

Tuesday, September 1 2009

POV: Ella Es El Matador (She Is the Matador)

By Cynthia Fuchs

One of two women at the center of Ella Es El Matador (She Is the Matador), Eva Florencia is visibly determined even as the reasons for her infatuation remain elusive.

Wednesday, August 26 2009

Wide Angle: Once Upon a Coup

By Cynthia Fuchs

Once Upon a Coup submits that the West interfered and even orchestrated the near-coup in Equatorial Guinea and backed off without much forethought or planning.

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