TV Show Reviews

The Bear season five brings the show to a strong, satisfying conclusion.  Even today, when it’s more common for shows to end in the time and manner of their creators’ choosing (as opposed to when I was younger, when most shows were either cancelled before their time, or dragged o

Rooster is the latest series co-created by TV genius Bill Lawrence (Scrubs, Ted Lasso, Shrinking) and Matt Tarses (who was a producer on Scrubs, as well as Sports Night).  The show stars Steve Carell as Greg Russo, the author of a series of popular adventure novels about a character

I was a fan of Scrubs from the very beginning.  I loved it in its prime, I’d say through the first four or five seasons.  In the later years I felt its charms started to wane, but I followed and enjoyed it all the way through, including the move from NBC to ABC for the [&helli

Amazon Prime Video’s adaptation of Invincible, the wonderful super-hero comic book series written by Robert Kirkman and illustrated by Ryan Ottley & Corey Walker, continues to roar along, with a terrific fourth season!  The show returned for another fantastic eight episodes

Mr. Scorsese is a riveting five-part documentary, directed by Rebecca Miller, that digs deeply into the life and films of master filmmaker Martin Scorsese.  In the main titles of each episode, the series is described as “a film portrait”, which I think is a beautiful and

Shrinking was great right out of the gate, and it’s only gotten better. This third season was a magnificent season of television, hilarious and sweet and moving, bringing the stories of all of these characters to a deeply satisfying conclusion. (The series has been renewed for a fou