TV Reviews1/19/18Jan 19 20183TV Reviews1/19/18ATV ReviewsAs the season winds down, Great News allows its entire ensemble to shineVikram Murthi10With Great News’ season finale next week, and no news of a third season renewal, it’s time to take stock of the…
TV Reviews1/15/18Jan 15 20182TV Reviews1/15/18CTV ReviewsThe Last Man On Earth repeatedly hits one morbid note in its winter finaleVikram Murthi45After being off the air for a month, The Last Man On Earth returned last week with a POV episode about Karl…
TV Reviews1/12/18Jan 12 20182TV Reviews1/12/18A-TV ReviewsKatie and Greg succumb to temptation and Chuck leads a heist on a plot-heavy Great NewsVikram Murthi12As Great News heads into the homestretch, Tracey Wigfield and company chose “Competing Offer” as the episode to…
TV Reviews1/7/18Jan 7 20182TV Reviews1/7/18BTV ReviewsFred Armisen stars as a cannibalistic serial killer in a flashback episode of The Last Man On EarthVikram Murthi31Last season, The Last Man On Earth took a three-month break between its fall finale and its spring premiere. When…
TV Reviews1/4/18Jan 4 20182TV Reviews1/4/18B+TV ReviewsCarol tries to bring Katie and Greg together on a sweet Great NewsVikram Murthi22The Greg and Katie romance initially felt like a somewhat obligatory byproduct of Great News. Workplace sitcoms need…
TV Reviews12/29/17Dec 29 20173TV Reviews12/29/17B-TV ReviewsCarol and Katie fall into denial on a middling Great NewsVikram Murthi16“Love Is Dead” might be a fairly middling episode of Great News, but it has two things going for it. The first is a…
TV Reviews12/23/17Dec 23 20175TV Reviews12/23/17ATV ReviewsIt's all bitter in the final chapter of WormwoodVikram Murthi9“You think that finding the answer to this is gonna restore the path of your own life. But how can it possibly do…
TV Reviews12/22/17Dec 22 20172TV Reviews12/22/17ATV ReviewsWormwood breaks through the frame and looks at the pictureVikram Murthi3“Something has troubled me. I never recall having told Mrs. Olson anything that was flatly untrue. I did allow her…
TV Reviews12/22/17Dec 22 20172TV Reviews12/22/17ATV ReviewsWormwood digs up Frank Olson's body and looks through the CIA's assassination manualVikram Murthi2“It was what Kierkegaard would call almost a dizziness of freedom. You can ask this question, and you have to live…
TV Reviews12/21/17Dec 21 20174TV Reviews12/21/17A-TV ReviewsA double dose of Great News highlights the series at its wacky, warm-hearted bestVikram Murthi13Though NBC previously said that “Pool Show” was the last Great News episode of the year, the network decided to fill…
TV Reviews12/20/17Dec 20 20172TV Reviews12/20/17BTV ReviewsWormwood spins its wheels slightly as Dr. Lashbrook and germ warfare enter the pictureVikram Murthi3“You’re losing control, Frank. Are you forgetting the premium placed on control?”—-Dr. Harold Abramson, Wormwood
TV Reviews12/19/17Dec 19 20173TV Reviews12/19/17A-TV ReviewsIn spite of the Colby documents, Wormwood doesn't know what happened in that roomVikram Murthi3“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” —John 8:32, King James Bible
TV Reviews12/18/17Dec 18 20174TV Reviews12/18/17A-TV ReviewsWormwood opens with a mysterious death, LSD, and the CIA... and it only gets stranger from thereVikram Murthi32“And the third angel sounded. And there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp. And it fell upon…
Reviews12/13/17Dec 13 20171Reviews12/13/17CReviewsThe mediocre Ferdinand mostly fails to bring a beloved kid-lit bestseller to lifeVikram Murthi26The children’s book The Story Of Ferdinand was a commercial success upon publication in 1936, outselling Gone With…
Best Of12/13/17Dec 13 201712Best Of12/13/17Best OfThe A.V. Club’s 20 best TV shows of 2017Erik Adams, Myles McNutt, Alex McLevy, Emily L. Stephens, and 13 more414The A.V. Club’s picks for the top TV of 2017 carry with them a hint of escapism: otherworldly settings,…
Best Of12/13/17Dec 13 20172Best Of12/13/17Best OfThe best TV of 2017: The ballotsErik Adams, Joshua Alston, Laura M. Browning, and 15 more46In The A.V. Club’s attempt to carve the mountain of TV released in 2017 into a monument commemorating the year’s…
Best Of12/4/17Dec 4 20177Best Of12/4/17Best OfThe best films of 2017 that we didn’t reviewA.A. Dowd, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Mike D'Angelo, and 7 more98Deciding which movies to review and which ones to skip is one of the toughest decisions The A.V. Club makes on a…
TV Reviews12/4/17Dec 4 20173TV Reviews12/4/17CTV ReviewsThe gang freaks out for stupid reasons on The Last Man On Earth fall finaleVikram Murthi43When The Last Man On Earth first began, Carol Pilbasian was the rule-following, hyper-organized, Type A foil to Phil…
TV Reviews11/19/17Nov 19 20173TV Reviews11/19/17C+TV ReviewsThe Last Man On Earth bides its time before the midseason home stretchVikram Murthi31There are exactly two interesting elements in this week’s Last Man On Earth: 1) It marks Kristen Schaal’s…
TV Reviews11/15/17Nov 15 20176TV Reviews11/15/17ATV ReviewsYou're The Worst sticks the landing following an uneven seasonVikram Murthi76From the beginning, You’re The Worst was about a relationship between two toxic people who need each other to…