- John Hansen
- September 22, 2015
‘Gotham’ Season 2 starts to show some respect for ‘Batman’ lore
A couple of milestones: My 1,000th blog post and the start of the fall TV season. This season got started with a show that’s not
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- John Hansen
- September 22, 2015
PKD goes to network TV in ‘Minority Report’
Watching the pilot episode of “Minority Report” (9 p.m. Eastern Mondays on Fox) really makes me want to do a rewatch of “Almost Human,” “Century City” and
- John Hansen
- September 21, 2015
‘Fear the Walking Dead,’ ‘Strain’ villains want power for power’s sake (TV review)
A couple seasons ago on “The Walking Dead,” Rick and the gang agree to march toward Washington, D.C., on Eugene’s promise that there was a
- John Hansen
- September 12, 2015
Fall TV 2015: 2 PKD adaptations and 5 other new shows worth checking out (Commentary)
The laboratories of innovation are churning away in the world of TV. Competition from cable, pay cable and – most recently and importantly – Internet
- John Hansen
- September 12, 2015
Fall TV 2015: 6 returning favorites worth checking out (Commentary)
The ax fell fairly lightly on TV shows at the end of last season, and as a result we have a nice selection of returning
- John Hansen
- August 25, 2015
First episode impressions: ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ (TV review)
For five seasons, “The Walking Dead” has revealed the flaws of societal structure through a world struggling to rebuild that structure. But we never saw
- John Hansen
- August 22, 2015
2015: The summer of horror TV (Commentary)
Entertainment trends are a funny thing. Horror movie releases have slowed to a trickle, whereas a decade ago there was a new one in theaters
- John Hansen
- August 12, 2015
Palladinos deliver a second great show with ‘Bunheads’ (2012-13)
At the “Gilmore Girls” panel at the ATX Television Festival in June, producer Amy Sherman-Palladino said that in the TV business, if you’re lucky, “You
- John Hansen
- July 17, 2015
Lohman breaks out in Mike White’s ‘Pasadena’ (2001-02)
One of the TV-watching projects I’m currently slogging through is the second season of “Twin Peaks.” The show’s mix of a murder mystery with quirky
- John Hansen
- July 2, 2015
‘Scream: The TV Series’ tries out horror-satire hybrid on small screen
“Scream: The TV Series” (9 p.m. Tuesdays on MTV) knows what it wants to be. As is the tradition in this increasingly meta franchise, the format