- John Hansen
- December 30, 2020
John’s top 10 TV shows of 2020
Like everything else, TV took a hit in this year of the pandemic, but networks felt the impact more so than streaming and premium. The
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- John Hansen
- October 28, 2020
Cohen still comedy king in ‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm’
Fourteen years after the original “Borat,” there’s still no one who does this brand of comedy as well as Sacha Baron Cohen and his team.
- John Hansen
- September 7, 2020
‘The Boys’ remains super as Season 2 begins
It’s been said that Washington, D.C., is Hollywood for ugly people, but we mostly view politics and celebrity culture as two distinct categories. What’s smart
- John Hansen
- September 3, 2020
Relatively thin schedule offers some highlights
The pandemic has wreaked havoc with fall TV scheduling (it’s hard to tell one socially distanced, masked story, let alone fill a slate with them),
- John Hansen
- May 31, 2020
Patterson’s ‘Vast of Night’ a gripping, stylish debut
Usually when a director drops his calling card, he has a few minor credits on his IMDB resume before that. But Andrew Patterson’s resume is
- John Hansen
- March 28, 2020
‘The Boys’ Season 1 blends superheroes with military industry
“Watchmen” popularized the idea of superheroes run amok, but that saga quickly moves beyond the question of “Who watches the Watchmen?” to its answer of
- John Hansen
- December 30, 2019
John’s top 10 TV shows of 2019
These were my 10 favorite TV series of 2019, a year that saw the continued dominance of streaming services and the rise to prominence of
- John Hansen and Shaune Redfield
- December 27, 2019
John’s and Shaune’s 20 favorite TV shows of the 2010s
In chronological order, these were our 20 favorite TV shows of the 2010s: “Breaking Bad” Seasons 3-5, 2010-13, AMC, created by Vince Gilligan Many times
- John Hansen
- December 11, 2019
It’s the Sixties, man, in ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Season 3
Season 3 of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon Prime) starts off in the too show-offy fashion that marks the worst excesses of writer-director Amy Sherman-Palladino.
- John Hansen
- September 15, 2019
Fall TV 2019: What looks good, and what doesn’t
I watched the trailers of some notable fall TV premieres so you don’t have to (but they are embedded here if you want to). Here are