Here comes the really big conflict we've been expecting, and it's shaping up to be a doozy. The B-stories may be a bit weak, but Terra Nova may be hitting its stride... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
Grimm is a winner; I'm saying it right now. My expectations for the pilot were high, and I'm delighted to say they were all fulfilled... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
For a truncated final-season premiere, this is a disappointing new direction on what has been a wonderfully funny and compassionate program... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
For all the existential questions we've been investigating, this episode gave us two real questions that need to be answered, for everyone... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
This show now emerges as more convincing, more frightening, and more self-confident. Whereas the premiere for the second season was a sodden walk through stereotypes, the second episode takes off literally at a run, and maintains a breathtaking pace... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
Once Upon a Time offers a weirdly difficult double-world, with some (hopefully) darker takes on classic fairy tales. Could be good... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
In a season as brilliant as this one has been, even a second-best show is a stunner, with a little too much subtlety and not enough flash-and-bang where it was needed... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
Just because it's popular doesn't mean it's good: the zombies are too fascinating for the writers, overshadowing the humans who are supposed to be the sympathetic characters... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
You can spend a lot of money, use very good actors, and throw around some big names, but if the stories are weak, you're going to have bad television... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
The theme of loneliness brings out some great episodes (including this one), but is it a reflection of dwindling audiences...? (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
If you're going for scary, and you're not actually Alfred Hitchcock, pigeons just aren't going to cut it. And Terra Nova has so much possibility... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
Once again, we end a W13 season with a bang, and a boom, and death, destruction, and more. And now we have to eagerly await the next season... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
In perhaps the best-written episode of the entire show, Fringe brilliantly exploits its own alternate-world structure to show us the transformative power of love... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
It's been a slow but intriguing season. In the season finale, however, we end on a better note than we've had... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
Americans need a frontier, and now it's the distant past. So we get pioneers and dinosaurs in a wonderful setting with some great acting. Let's hope it can last... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
If the most important person in your life were completely erased from your memories, would you notice? And can you make good television from that erasure?... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
A somewhat awkward standalone episode that gives new meaning to the phrase dinner theatre, and that acts as the palate-cleanser before what promises to be a satisfying dessert... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
A story set around a burial ground, deep in the woods, with cannibalism lurking in the form of the Windgo, should be a spine-tingler. It wasn't... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
A whiny, self-centered Pete is off-putting, even if there is reason for the shift this week. But a solid B-story combined with a good turn by Kate Mulgrew set us up for an interesting end of the season... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
To wrap up a season with too many plot lines and too many characters takes, in this case, a big scythe. But we get a lot of satisfaction from it all... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
Good directing, but poor writing, lead to a weak locked-room mystery with not enough clues and not enough suspects... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
