Smash’: watching whole TV seasons in one fell swoop
The availability of complete seasons of TV series for DVD and download marathon viewings has made it almost impossible for me to watch a show on a week-by-week basis. I can’t stand the suspense of...
View ArticleFrank Capra + Mary Tyler Moore = ‘The Newsroom’
It’s always amusing to watch smart people nitpick a movie or TV series that dares to deal with their profession. Broadway folk were merciless toward “Smash,” the recently departed NBC musical soap, for...
View Article‘Enlightened’: checking out an HBO ‘flop’
Thanks to the wonders of DVD and downloads, there is almost no such thing as a “flop” movie or TV show these days. Everything produced in Hollywood gets a second or third chance now. HBO Video has kept...
View Article‘The Newsroom’: an HBO three season wonder
It was probably a back-handed compliment to HBO’s consistently high quality series programming that “The Newsroom” was nit-picked to death by reviewers two seasons ago and will be coming to a premature...
View Article‘The Newsroom’ ends on a high
I’ve run into lots of people who loved the Aaron Sorkin HBO series “The Newsroom,” but it never got the media love necessary for it to turn into one of those “hot” cable shows like “Girls” or...
View Article‘City Island’ — lost in the shuffle
Why did it take me seven years to watch a DVD I own? I have no idea, really, but over the weekend I was digging around in a box of old screeners I meant to toss and there was “City Island.” The PG-13...
View ArticleBailing on ‘Good Girls Revolt’
A decent premise and a few good performances weren’t enough to keep me watching the new Amazon series “Good Girls Revolt,” set at a fictionalized version of Newsweek magazine at the end of the 1960s....
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