- John Hansen
- September 23, 2024
Fall TV preview 2024: 10 shows I wouldn’t mind watching
Is Fall TV still a thing in this era when new stuff starts and ends at all points on the calendar, seemingly at random? It
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- John Hansen
- June 29, 2022
‘Westworld’ Season 4 jumps into recognizable future
A big month for Michael Crichton franchises continues with the launch of “Westworld” Season 4 (Sundays, HBO). This is the headier of the two Crichton
- John Hansen
- December 30, 2021
John’s top 10 TV shows of 2021
I used to count the days before a new season of a favorite show, or a new series starring a favorite actor. Now, it’s like
- John Hansen
- June 18, 2021
Winslet leads stellar cast in gripping ‘Mare of Easttown’
The plot of “Mare of Easttown” (April-May, HBO) is nothing we haven’t seen before. Nor is its moody vibe of a small, troubled community wracked
- John Hansen
- March 11, 2021
Great actresses carry ‘Big Little Lies’ Season 2 (2019)
After HBO’s “Big Little Lies” Season 1 became one of the best shows of 2017, it returned in 2019 with a Season 2. The whole story
- 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
- John Hansen
- December 6, 2020
Grant, Kidman shine in Kelley’s ‘The Undoing’
David E. Kelley’s ascension from snarky network procedurals to the rarefied air of classy miniseries continues from “Big Little Lies” (2017-19) into the recently wrapped
- John Hansen
- September 15, 2020
‘The Third Day’ miniseries starts out weird, mysterious
If “The Third Day” (Mondays, HBO) was an open-ended series, I’d bow out after this first episode, cuz ain’t nobody got time fo’ a “Lost”-ian
- 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
- April 1, 2020
‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Season 10 is prettay, prettay good
It’s been three years since the previous season of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” (HBO), so Larry David and his writers had plenty of absurdities from the