TV Show Reviews

The Walking Dead Season One Episode 5 ‘Wildfire’ Review

November 29, 2010

One of the recurring themes in The Walking Dead has been the tension between the characters’ impulse to survive and their desire to hold onto as many of the customs and traditions of their old lives as possible. That tension, which has… Read More

The Walking Dead Season One Episode 104 ‘Vatos’ Review

November 22, 2010

Last week I remarked that although I had enjoyed each of the first three episodes of The Walking Dead, I was concerned that the episodes did not seem to share a consistent structure or style. While the first episode was a masterful exercise in… Read More

The Walking Dead Season One Episode 103 ‘Tell It to the Frogs’ Review

November 15, 2010

Last night’s episode of AMC’s The Walking Dead took us to the half-way point of the show’s first season (a longer second season was commissioned earlier this week). Up until this episode the only character we had managed… Read More

The Walking Dead Season One Episode 102 ‘Guts’ Review

November 8, 2010

The Walking Dead’s premiere episode ended with Rick trapped inside a tank that is surrounded by hoards of zombies, hearing a voice over the tank’s radio system teasing him for his stupidity. This week in ‘Guts’ we… Read More

The Walking Dead Premiere ‘Days Gone By’ Review

November 1, 2010

Horror fans have been telling me for months that I ought to be excited about AMC’s adaptation of The Walking Dead, an acclaimed comic book series by Robert Kirkman, which is being produced by Frank Darabont (director of The Shawshank… Read More

V Season 1, Episode 5 Review: Welcome to the War

April 4, 2010

Back when V premiered last fall I wrote that ABC’s scheduling strategy of breaking the show up into small clusters of episodes broadcast months apart was ill-advised. In its first four episodes V showed a lot of promise but it seemed to… Read More

Fox’s Sons of Tucson Episodes 1-3 Review

March 14, 2010

While in recent years Fox has had considerable success with its slate of animated sitcoms, they seem to have struggled to find similar success in live-action output. New series Sons of Tucson kicks off tonight after Family Guy and shares a little… Read More