Meredith gets back on a commercial airliner tonight, for an episode that takes place almost entirely in the air. Given her history with plane crashes, that doesn’t bode well. Given that her seatmate is Nathan Riggs, on whom she has a current crush, that does bode well, especially since on-air promos show them sharing the same mile-high bathroom. Let’s just hoped she doesn’t get dragged down the aisle and… re-accommodated.

2017

Apr

RIVERDALE By David Bianculli

It’s Jughead’s birthday, and the gang gathers to celebrate on an episode titled “The Lost Weekend.” It ought to be a real feather in his cap – or whatever the hell that thing is he wears on his head.

2017

Apr

SCANDAL By David Bianculli

This is the 100th anniversary of this Shonda Rhimes series – and to celebrate, Scandal, like another ABC series, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., is rebooting its characters in an alternate reality. For Scandal, it’s just a stand-alone “what if?” scenario, but asks what if the election hadn’t been rigged? How different might life be for everyone? Funny. In real life, having nothing to do with ABC’s Scandal, I ask myself that all the time…

2017

Apr

STELLA MAEVE ON HER ‘THE MAGICIANS’ CHARACTER By David Hinckley

You don’t have to believe in magic to star in Syfy’s The Magicians, but it’s worked out pretty well for Stella Maeve...

2017

Apr

PANIC IN YEAR ZERO By David Bianculli

This low-budget 1962 movie is called Panic in Year Zero, but might as well have been titled Panic During the Cold War. Imagine it as The Walking Dead without the zombies: Los Angeles has been wiped out by a nuclear attack, and a local family far enough away, on a fishing trip, to survive has to tend with all the unexpected post-nuclear threats: not only fallout and radiation poisoning, but opportunistic thugs roaming the countryside, looting and raping. This frightened little film stars Sixties

2017

Apr

EMPIRE By David Bianculli

In tonight’s episode, Hakeem (Bryshere Y. Gray) turns 21, and throws himself what he considers a fittingly big bash. It’s worth noting, if only for the fact that, given recent headlines about Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly, this may be the only part of the Fox Empire these days that’s in any mood to celebrate.

2017

Apr

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: "THE GREAT WAR" By David Bianculli

MINISERIES CONCLUSION. Part 3 of 3. Spoiler Alert: we win. Check local listings.

2017

Apr

ARCHER By David Bianculli

As Archer (J. Jon Benjamin) continues to dream while in a comatose state, his dreams have settled, for now, on an alternate “Dreamland” universe where all his friends and enemies are recast in a film noir fantasy. Tonight, that fantasy becomes flesh, sort of, as Judy Greer, known in Archer’s real world as Cheryl, comes on to Archer as a femme fatale named “Berenice” – the title of tonight’s installment. The vocal performers, and writers, rise to the occa

2017

Apr

BROCKMIRE By David Bianculli

This new IFC series has established its characters firmly, and cleverly, in just a few episodes: Hank Azaria is the burned-out baseball broadcaster with a legendary meltdown behind him and little ahead of him. Amanda Peet is the attention-hungry owner of a minor-league team who hires Azaria’s Brockmire for whatever residual promo value he might generate. And Tyrel Jackson Williams plays one of her employees, a young man who knows nothing about baseball, little about Brockmire, but everythi

2017

Apr

ACTING IS ACTING, AFTER ALL: MTV AWARDS DITCH GENDER-SPECIFIC CATEGORIES By Alex Strachan

The MTV MTVA’s recent decision — effective this year — to scrap their best actor and best actress categories in favor of a single gender-neutral category is a conversation starter, if nothing else.

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