At the end of any given show’s season, we take a look at what worked, what didn’t and where things might be headed.
In its Penultimate Season, TV’s Revered Spy Drama Leans Heavy on the Latter, Plays Hard to Get With the Former The Americans can’t end well. That’s basically the only thing I can guarantee about what’s coming in the show’s sixth and final season that’s set to air next year, but beyond that it’s anyone’s …
The Long-Running Animated Spy Comedy Takes a Swing at Condensed Storytelling, With Mixed Results Stagnation, in television, is always the final stage before death. This is especially true of sitcoms, and a good reason why few manage to maintain a consistent quality after three or four seasons. Once you’ve explored all the avenues available …
The Second Season of Aziz Ansari’s Early-Middle Age Lovechild is As Warm and Humanistic As Ever One or two word signifiers don’t work for TV anymore. Usually. Yeah, Game of Thrones is a “medieval fantasy”, Fargo is a “crime saga” and The Young Pope is a “mindfuck”, but those are still fairly shallow descriptions of much deeper shows. And …
Apparently This is “The First Day of the Rest of Your Life”. I Am Utterly, Incontinently Terrified by That Notion I can’t do a typical write-up for this episode, recounting the plot and remarking on its significance, trying to parse out some thematic relevance in proceedings or discussing how the characters move from A …