- John Hansen
- December 23, 2016
Williamson gets groove back with ‘Hidden Palms’ (2007)
“Hidden Palms” (2007, The CW) seems like the show “Glory Days” – from five years earlier – should’ve been. It’s an ongoing murder-mystery mixed with a
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- John Hansen
- December 22, 2016
TV shows lost to history: ‘Glory Days’ (2002) (Review)
After “Dawson’s Creek” and before his commercial resurgence with “The Vampire Diaries” and “The Following,” uber-producer Kevin Williamson stumbled through a few interesting failures. Among
- John Hansen
- December 20, 2016
Catching up with ‘The Fall’ (TV review)
When I started watching “The Fall” (2013-present, Netflix) I could hardly remember the names of the characters at the end of each episode. It was just The
- John Hansen
- October 12, 2016
First episode impressions: ‘Frequency’ (TV review)
“Frequency” (9 p.m. Wednesdays on The CW), in its original incarnation, was a pretty good 2000 movie starring Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel that I don’t
- John Hansen
- August 8, 2016
Martin puts mark on horror genre with ‘Slasher’ Season 1
“Dead of Summer” and the second season of “Scream” are big reasons why 2016 has become the year of the slasher TV series, but the
- John Hansen
- June 23, 2016
‘American Gothic’ doesn’t stand out from the horror-mystery pack
A summer mystery/horror miniseries has to achieve a pretty low bar for me to not give it more than one episode, but “American Gothic” (10 p.m. Eastern
- John Hansen
- June 1, 2016
‘Scream: The TV Series’ starts to reward loyal fans in Season 2
“Scream: The TV Series” (11 p.m. Eastern Mondays on MTV) gradually got better over the course of its first season, and with the second-season premiere, it
- John Hansen
- October 31, 2015
Pre-‘Lost’ Matthew Fox stars in moody ‘Haunted’ (2002)
“Haunted” (2002, UPN) is one of the bevy of shows that aired between the end of “The X-Files” and the start of “Fringe” that tried to
- John Hansen
- September 29, 2015
First episode impressions: ‘Quantico’ (TV review)
The pilot episode of “Quantico” (10 p.m. Eastern Sundays on ABC) slathers on the twists and turns until the series’ ultimate premise is set up the final
- John Hansen
- September 23, 2015
Murphy, Falchuk take horror shtick to network TV with ‘Scream Queens’
My list of new fall shows to watch is increasingly revealing itself to be a list of wishful thinking. Following “Minority Report” and “Blindspot,” “Scream Queens” (9