C.J.’s Revenge on ‘The Veep’
It'd be tempting to refer to Sunday's episode of "The Veep" as the one where Allison Janney returns to the West Wing. But the vice president's residence isn't in the White…
Menace Surfaces on ‘The Killing’
Compared to the beautifully photographed, rain-soaked blues and greys of greater Seattle that give “The Killing” its brooding texture, what remains of the sickly pink biohazard bags of 17 decomposing…
Sunday TV: Tonys, ‘Game of Thrones’ End
Neil Patrick Harris' best role for CBS is not as the ever-smarmy Barney in "How I Met Your Mother" but as apparent host-for-life of Broadway's big awards night. Harris returns…
Saturday TV: Two New Series on Syfy
Syfy isn't showing its B-movie monster movies like "Octoshark" any more on Saturday nights, but they are importing series that appear to be just as bad. "Primeval: New World" (Syfy,…
Friday TV: Noir and Runyon on TCM
Writers of the great film noir classics get the spotlight Fridays this month on Turner Classic Movies. It begins, of course, with Damon Runyon and "The Maltese Falcon" (8 p.m.).…
Thursday TV: New ‘Graceland,’ ‘In the Flesh’
The new series "Graceland" (USA, 10 p.m.) begins its annoyance by naming itself after Elvis' home for no particular reason. The place it names is a super-expensive beach house where…
Wednesday TV: Home Shopping Girls, CMT Awards
It's a good sign that some reality producers also see the humor in some of the worst home shopping networks. One of the worst, DSN, is celebrated in the new show…
Tuesday TV: More Wicked Women, ‘Talent’ Start
On the theory that there are not enough awful women on reality TV yet, here comes "Pretty Wicked Moms" (Lifetime 10 p.m.), a gaggle of bad mothers who give their…
Theatre Review: ‘Stupid @#$%ing Bird’
Reinventing theater is easier said than done – and easier still said with an expletive. Thus we have Aaron Posner’s "Stupid @#$%ing Bird," an adaptation of Chekhov’s "The Seagull" that just…
Monday TV: ‘Mistresses’ and Two Moms
The latest British series to be misunderstood by American TV is "Mistresses" (ABC, 10 p.m.), a midseason series pushed off to the summer netherlands. What was an honest and fairly…