Category: Television

  • Season Two of Tyrant on FX may be an Upgrade to this FX Show

    Season Two of Tyrant on FX may be an Upgrade to this FX Show

    Season two of Tyrant on FX may be an upgrade over season one, a somewhat interesting, if uneven, affair that somehow left something to be desired. However, that means there is room to improve and Tyrant on FX may just make good on that unsaid promise.  A look at the season two preview, shown on…

  • Season Five of Louie on FX Regains Consistency

    Season Five of Louie on FX Regains Consistency

    Season five of Louie on FX has regained the consistency that season four somehow lost, albeit in bizarre, spectacular, and, as always, painful fashion. What that means is titular character, Louie, the creation of comic, Louis C.K., consistently failing to rise above the mediocrity around him and falling face first into every conceivable hassle that…

  • What will become of Jon Hamm’s Don Draper of Mad Men on AMC?

    What will become of Jon Hamm’s Don Draper of Mad Men on AMC?

    The finale of Mad Men on AMC looms and the largest question is what will become of Jon Hamm’s Don Draper?  Don’s fall from grace has been stunning. However, can one really say that about something so predictable and well deserved?  And his redemption, if ever, has been slow, painful and has just barely started. …

  • The Americans on FX is a Spy Thriller of the Highest Order

    The Americans on FX is a Spy Thriller of the Highest Order

    The Americans on FX is a Cold War drama that centers around next door neighbor KGB and FBI agents as well as their handlers and higher-ups in Washington, D.C. The hit FX show, which is set in the Reagan years, is ready to kick-off season three this week.  The Americans on FX is a super-smart…

  • Season Six of Justified on FX Promises More Memorable Scumbags

    Season Six of Justified on FX Promises More Memorable Scumbags

    Season six of Justified on FX is upon us and the question is will there be a new scumbag or two worthy of some of its past great specimens of disposable white trash? Well, here’s hoping so and for plenty of them.  A quick review of the cast of Justified on FX reveals a number…

  • Sons of Anarchy, by Kurt Sutter, an Evil Show I Love to Hate

    Sons of Anarchy, by Kurt Sutter, an Evil Show I Love to Hate

    I had initially avoided Sons of Anarchy on FX, created by Kurt Sutter, because I didn’t want to watch a motorcycle gang show. Maybe I should have stayed with my first impression of this FX show.  Now I am struggling through the last season of Sons of Anarchy on FX.  When I first came to…

  • HLN Gearing Up for Another Jodi Arias Onslaught

    HLN Gearing Up for Another Jodi Arias Onslaught

    Just in time for HLN and minions Nancy Grace, Jane Velez-Mitchell, and Dr. Drew, et al, Jodi Arias will be representing herself in the sentencing phase of her murder trial in Arizona. The drooling, Pavlovian reaction to anything Jodi Arias-related on HLN is thoroughly predictable as they have been waiting for months to sink their…