TV Reviews

Girls: Season 2 Finale

Written by Natalie DiMaria Tuesday, March 19, 2013, 7:38 AM

People may not remember what you said or what you did, but we will always remember how the season two finale of Girls made us cringe, grip our ears, and count to eight.

This season of Girls came across as last season’s weird dark OCD cousin, but a cousin I love nonetheless. All of the characters are in a completely different place than where they originally started, which is perhaps a metaphor for the bizarre direction the entire show has taken.

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Grimm: Midseason 2 Premiere

Written by Renita Wilheims Tuesday, March 12, 2013, 7:39 AM

This Grimm episode, “Face-Off,” is mobbed with problems and twists that leave you feel like you are ridding a roller coaster. Some parts of the roller coaster were better than others.

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Zero Hour: Series Premiere

Written by Becky Kifer Sunday, February 17, 2013, 9:30 AM

This is going to seem about as cheerful as Tommy Lee Jones at the Golden Globes, but I can’t come up with a clever means to articulate all the ways in which the first episode of ABC’s Zero Hour was bad. Frankly, I’m not sure it’s even worth the time to look up other synonyms. Sometimes it’s just the way things are: a bad pilot is a bad pilot is a bad pilot.

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The Walking Dead: Midseason 3 Premiere

Written by Jim Rohner Thursday, February 14, 2013, 7:47 AM

When last we saw The Walking Dead the writers had set off a chain of events with Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and co.'s invasion of Woodbury that teased the imminent explosion to come and signaled an acceleration toward an exciting merging of the season's parallel storylines. "Made to Suffer" raised a lot of possibilities to mull over during the show's absence, some more predictable than others (The Governor, played by David Morrissey, finally snapped), some more provocative (is Rick losing his grip on reality?), but all of them signaling that season three’s second half would see our protagonists bracing for impact as the physical and metaphorical walls separating them from Woodbury were breached, making retaliation a matter of when rather than if.  It's this promise inherent in the first half of the season, the good will built up and the accelerated pace that the show had comfortably and skillfully adopted, that made "The Suicide King" such a disappointment.

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30 Rock: Series Finale

Written by Jim Rohner Tuesday, February 05, 2013, 7:08 AM

The music that closes out 30 Rock's series finale, Jenna's (Jane Krakowski) rendition of "Rural Juror" from the titular Kevin Grisham Broadway adaptation, at first seems like a curious choice to leave as the penultimate impression for the goodbye episode of one of the best comedy series of the last decade—the lyrics are goofy, with its bombardment of words that rhyme with either "rural" or "juror," and the song itself is a reference to a not frequently recurring joke that saw its genesis way back in season one. But thinking on it a bit more and you'll realize that both the episode and the idea of "The Rural Juror" are instead a thematic surrogate for 30 Rock's trademark cartoonish absurdity. It's that absurdity, that hilarious irreverence that has remained consistent through seven seasons that is being given a sendoff in the final episode of both 30 Rock and TGS.

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