To the casual observer... OK, that’s too easy. Hulu’s new Casual, which starts streaming with weekly episodes on Wednesday, Oct. 7, is more or less a comedy series that’s also more or less watchable.

2015

Oct

FX'S 'AMERICAN HORROR STORY: HOTEL' DOESN'T CHECK OUT By Ed Bark

There comes a point where depravity and perversion overwhelm any visual artistry. Awash in torture porn, with a blood-lusty Lady Gaga very actively participating, American Horror Story: Hotel marks the fifth reinvention of one of FX’s most popular franchises...

2015

Oct

THE LATE NIGHT TALK SHOW HOST BEARD-ATHON (PAST/PRESENT) By Ed Bark

There’s a growth spurt among past and present late night talk show hosts -- and it has nothing to do with how many there are to choose from. Simply put, beards are busting out all over...

2015

Oct

ABC SHOULD HAVE LET 'DR. KEN' CALL IN SICK By Ed Bark

The opening minutes of ABC’s Dr. Ken include a little colonoscopy humor. Although no one looks forward to one, it’s preferable to enduring the first two episodes of this painfully forced new comedy...

2015

Sep

LOWE REMAINS ON A COMEDY HIGH WITH FOX'S 'THE GRINDER' By Ed Bark

Tuesday is middle-aged Adonis night on Fox’s new fall schedule. So after John Stamos in Grandfathered comes Rob Lowe in the better rendered The Grinder...

2015

Sep

FOX'S 'GRANDFATHERED' OFFERS JOHN STAMOS A NEW WRINKLE By Ed Bark

Aging playboy Jimmy Martino (John Stamos) is a self-idolizing, phony flatterer who runs an upscale Hollywood restaurant and polices any gray hairs as though they were weeds in a Tournament of Roses Parade float...

2015

Sep

ABC'S 'BLOOD & OIL' LETS DON JOHNSON SHOW OFF AGAIN By Ed Bark

Back during Don Johnson’s burst into stardom on NBC’s Miami Vice, ABC’s Dynasty also roamed the earth as the 1984-’85 TV season’s No. 1 prime-time series. Now they’re both back in ABC’s Dynasty-like Blood & Oil...

2015

Sep

ABC'S 'QUANTICO' PUTS NYC ON THE RECEIVING END OF MORE TERRORIST DEVASTATION By Ed Bark

What the real-life world really doesn’t need right now is another devastating terrorist attack on New York City or grossly incompetent screening of would-be FBI agents at the Quantico Academy. You’ll get both in ABC’s Quantico...

2015

Sep

BIRTH OF A BIG MESS IN NBC'S 'HEROES REBORN' By Ed Bark

Regarding Heroes Reborn, might there be the possibility of a historic class action suit on the part of viewers who end up suffering from whiplash, dizziness and overall head-hurt? Saying this NBC reboot is all over the place might qualify as the understatement of the millennium...

2015

Sep

NBC'S ‘THE PLAYER’ MIGHT NOT WANT TO BET ON ITS SURVIVAL By Ed Bark

Automatic weapons fire, screeching/smoking motor vehicles, flying fists and daring last-minute rescues are very much in The Player’s playbook. Darn, there’s dialogue, too...

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Ed Bark

Since 2006, Ed Bark's local and national TV stories and observations have been showcased on his pioneering website, www.unclebarky.com. For 26 years before that, he was TV critic for the Dallas Morning News. He's a past president of the Television Critics Association, and for seven years served on the national Peabody Awards board.

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