Image Credit: Bill Matlock/FoxLast night, Fox officially premiered The Good Guys after a preview episode a couple weeks ago. That first episode didn’t get great ratings and felt a bit unsteady, tonally-speaking, but I thought it had some potential. Last night’s episode was more of the same: very unsteady, but times rather sparkling. The Good Guys still feels like about half of a funny action satire and half of a lame genuine action show, but there’s enough that’s good to keep me watching.
Just in case you hadn’t seen the previews for this week’s episode—featuring Sandhya’s suspected breakdown—the “previously on” reminds us how she grates against the other contestants. Her “I don’t refer to any other designer” business is not received well. No surprise. What is semi-surprising is the lack of actual drama this year. A few designers have been given a heavy edit to appear as the characters we’ve grown to expect: Mitchell and Korina got the villain treatment in the premiere.
After last week’s lusty steambath, this week “L” stands for… lousy, lame, lamentable. I skipped the all-time finale of The Wire to watch panoramicshots of helmeted women riding bikes and unfunny tent-pitchingpratfalls? The ladies have all flown up to the Pacific Northwest for abenefit bike-athon, the purpose of which, Alice chirps, is “curing cancer and onenight stands.” “Go boobs!” shrieks Molly (Clementine Ford, pictured), like she’s cheering for USC at theRose Bowl, possibly the ickiest line of the evening.
The second-to-last episode of any TV season needs to ramp up the action, and it needs to do it good. So you’ll have to excuse me if I sound disappointed this morning, but I’m suffering from a swirling hangover of confusion after last night’s very odd (and oddly placed) episode of The L Word. Eleven weeks into a rejuvenated fourth season, and our central storylines are… Paige’s whiny hopes for a birthday gift from Shane?
In an early episode of HBO’s The Larry Sanders Show, Sanders’ dim-witted talk-show sidekick, Hank Kingsley (Jeffrey Tambor), explained the origin of his tag line, ”Hey now!” ”When I was a kid, I used to say ‘hey,’ and then later I said ‘now,’ but I never put it together until later.” It didn’t take quite that long for star-executive producer Garry Shandling and cocreator Dennis Klein to think up ”Hey now!
Those eager to learn more about season 2 of HBO's The Last of Us (and beyond) may want to pay close attention to the latest video game announced for the franchise. Gaming studio Naughty Dog revealed earlier in November that a remastered version of 2020's The Last of Us Part II is coming to the PlayStation 5 and will bring with it all sorts of bonus features. Among the added goodies are "
A great deal of The Last Witch Hunter’s running time is devoted to Vin Diesel making that face. You know the one: Head cocked slightly to one side, eyes squinted, mouth turned down, a mixture of anguish, confusion, and mild gastric discomfort furrowing his brow. It’s a gaze that has helped turn the stoic Dom Toretto into one of the definitive franchise characters of this century, but as The Last Witch Hunter proves, it only works if there are lots of fast cars and the Rock in its immediate vicinity.
Warning: This story contains spoilers from the season 2 premiere of Disney+'s The Mandalorian. The second season of Disney+'s The Mandalorian was released Friday (at the not-quite-family friendly time of midnight PST) and was full of callbacks to 1977 Star Wars lore. There was a glimpse of what looked like R5-D4 (the malfunctioning droid that Luke Skywalker's uncle attempted to buy from Jawas in A New Hope, which also appeared in season 1) and a battle with a krayt dragon (C-3PO walked by the skeleton of such a creature on a sand dune in A New Hope).
Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Masked Singer season 11, episode 13, "Finale: One Mask Takes It All." What started out as 16 masks came down to two on Wednesday's season 11 finale of The Masked Singer, with one contestant taking it all by the end in what might have been the most closely contested battle yet on the show. Before all that, though, the episode started off with the traditional recaps of the journeys of finalists Gumball and Goldfish, and host Nick Cannon told us both contestants would get two chances to sing their hearts out in one final effort to nab the Golden Mask Trophy.
CSI is finally getting real. CBS premiered the first trailer for The Real CSI: Miami Monday (above). As the title suggests, the series is a true crime documentary project that follows actual detectives and law enforcement officers as they investigate actual cases in the Sunshine State. The show appears to be more grimy and grounded than its fictional sister series — unfortunately, there’s no dramatic removal of sunglasses to be found in any of the preview footage, but that likely speaks to the participants’ professionalism and the show’s overall seriousness.