Adapted from the hit podcast of the same name, Epix’s new docu-series “Slow Burn” — which details the people involved in the events of the Watergate Scandal — has joined the trend of podcast-turned-television shows, and it certainly will not be the last. In our current media climate, the endless profit possibilities that different intellectual properties offer has nearly every network or platform scrambling to attain the rights to reproduce stories we’ve already heard before, but just on their platform.
Sunday, February 16, 2020 - 4:20pm
You know those shows that have a season-ending cliffhanger that makes you scream to yourself, “HOW IN THE WORLD AM I SUPPOSED TO WAIT FOUR MONTHS TO FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENS?” Well, it’s been years since the season seven finale of “Homeland” and somewhere along the way, I stopped caring.
Sunday, February 9, 2020 - 4:07pm
“Briarpatch” opens on a 99-degree morning in San Bonifacio, Texas. A landlady, who is also a police detective, exits her apartment to inquire about the rent from a standoffish upstairs tenant. She gets into her cruiser to leave for work and is promptly killed in a car-bomb explosion.
Sunday, February 9, 2020 - 4:03pm
It’s unfair to compare NBC’s new comedy “Indebted” to the recently departed “The Good Place” just because they’re both NBC comedies that air on Thursdays. These shows have little in common — nowhere are their differences more evident than in the execution of their respective premises. “The Good Place” took one of the most complex sitcom premises on network television and accomplished it with ease. On the other end of the sitcom spectrum, “Indebted” takes one of the most basic premises and struggles to give its audience a reason to care.
Sunday, February 2, 2020 - 4:16pm
This review contains spoilers.
Tuesday, January 28, 2020 - 4:41pm
For all its subplots, the enduring struggle of Netflix’s “The Ranch” has always been the Bennetts themselves. The tumultuous relationship between Colt’s (Ashton Kutcher, “That 70s Show”) narcissism and the intensity of his father, Beau (Sam Elliot, “The Mule”), has been at the center of it all. As the Bennetts continue to suffer from fighting one another, so does their beloved ranch. Nothing grows where there is no nurturing. Thus, the fourth season of this often dark western comedy has arrived and with it, the end of “The Ranch.”
Sunday, January 26, 2020 - 4:05pm
It’s been nearly a year since “Broad City” concluded its run, leaving a hole in the heart of anyone who watched — especially for Comedy Central. The apparent heir to this is “Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens” which should fit in just fine, once it settles down.
Sunday, January 26, 2020 - 4:03pm
Gwyneth Paltrow’s lifestyle/skin-care/health product brand Goop has long been the target of jokes skewering its willful inaccessibility (see: jade egg lawsuit, shockingly overpriced products and most recently, this candle debacle).
Monday, January 20, 2020 - 6:55pm
“Everything will be OK” is the kind of thing we tell someone when one of two situations has occurred: Someone is irrationally caught up in a minute problem, or everything will absolutely not be OK. Yet, the new comedy from Australian comedian Josh Thomas (“Please Like Me”) walks a thin line between these two situations — between being completely helpless and being just self aware enough to make it out alive — and comes out deftly chock-full of heart.
Monday, January 20, 2020 - 5:02pm
Over the last year, critically-acclaimed shows such as “The Act,” “Unbelievable” and the recently released Aaron Hernandez mini-series “Killer Inside” represent America’s newfound fascination with the true-crime genre. Similarly, the popularity of shows such as “Black Mirror” and “Stranger Things” reveals the expanding market for horror. All factors considered, it was only a matter of time before the genres of horror, crime and mystery melded together on HBO to give us “The Outsider,” the televised adaptation of the Stephen King novel of the same name.