Hotel rooms offer an escape to people on the run from or toward excitement, possibility, and danger. It's no wonder a lot of key scenes in the acclaimed drama “The Leftovers” took place in anonymous…
“The Beautiful and the Damned" is not the F. Scott Fitzgerald work that Amazon has chosen to adapt, but it could serve as an alternate title to the handsome and romantic drama "The Last Tycoon," a…
The best thing that can be said about "Midnight, Texas" is that its badness is at least amiable. This is not a case of an ambitious show going awry and causing frustration as it falls well short of…
There's nothing large about the satisfying and humane “People of Earth,” except the distance its alien characters have traveled to this planet full of mixed-up humans. It's not a show that traffics…
It's apparent by now that Issa Rae can do just about anything, except maybe win the World Series of Poker. Her face gives so much away, and that transparency would be a disadvantage in most card…
"Loaded" tells the story of what happens after a small London gaming startup is bought out by a huge American corporation, making the four co-founders — who, are at the age of about 30, more or less…
If "Hooten & the Lady" feels somewhat predictable at times, that's because it is. That's not a knock on the series, though, because it knows it. In fact, that's a major part of its appeal. The…
There's a point in "Salvation," CBS' newest summer sci-fi offering, where one of the series' two geniuses runs down all the obstacles that currently stand in the way of them saving all of humanity…
Playing Michael Bluth was a lot harder than it looked. As the lead of "Arrested Development," Jason Bateman had to be a despicable straight man with delusions of his own goodness and sympathetic, as…
Andrea Warren (Andrea Savage) is a happily married mom with intermittent work and chronic verbal diarrhea. That's it, that's the show. Savage — who created, executive produces, writes, and stars in…
A lot of well-known TV comedies revolve around the idea that people who aren't necessarily likable have lives and relationships worth sampling. The problem with the dreadful "Friends From College" is…
