At The Daily Beast, my colleague Maria Elena Fernandez and I examine how PBS got cool: the massive success of Downton Abbey has brought PBS an increase in donations, funding for Masterpiece, a boost ...
And now for something different. Im definitely not within ABC Familys target demographic, but Ive fallen head over heels in love with the cable networks drama Switched at Birth, which is a profound a...
Happy birthday, Mr. Dickens. Over at The Daily Beast, were celebrating Charles Dickens’s 200th birthday. You can read my latest feature, entitled "Happy Birthday, Charles Dickens! Lost, NCIS, Big...
Over at The Daily Beast, I talk with Anjelica Huston about her husband’s death, her formidable character on Smash, and the “cult of murder” on television today. You can read my latest feature, entitl...
Sometimes the things you once loved can disappoint you the most. Over at The Daily Beast, you can read my latest feature, entitled "Why I’m Tired of Top Chef," in which I take a look at the c...
Fifty years after her death, the mention of Marilyn Monroe conjures up familiar imagery: that whispery voice, the platinum hair, her vulnerability. From Michelle Williams’s recent embodiment to yet a...
There’s a new contender for the worst new show of the year in CBS’s Rob Schneider vehicle, Rob—it’s racist and unfunny. At the Daily Beast, I take a look at the truly terrible first episode in my lat...
Its no secret that Im a devotee of lavish British costume drama Downton Abbey, which recently wrapped its second season run on ITV in the U.K. and which finally heads across the pond this weekend, wh...
With the return of Justified, Downton Abbey, and Shameless, and the launch of Touch, Luck, and others, I take a look at what’s coming to your TV this winter over at The Daily Beast, in my latest feat...
Looking back, 2011 proved to be a particularly deadly one for television characters, whose bodies were stacking up even before the return of AMC’s The Walking Dead, which rather notoriously raises th...
At The Daily Beast, its finally time for my Best and Worst TV Shows of 2011 list: with 10 shows up for recognition as the best (including Justified, Homeland, Downton Abbey, Community, Parks and Recr...
Im puzzled by how polarizing the season finale ("Marine One") of Showtimes Homeland ended up being, with viewers on one side or the other about just how effective--and believable--the climax ...
HBOs Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones, Bored to Death and other TV shows have recently featured incest storylines or themes. Over at The Daily Beast, you can read my latest feature, "TV Breaks t...
With the 2011-12 television season in full swing and the cancellation orders stacking up, Jace Lacob rounds up the season’s winners (Revenge! Homeland!), losers (Man Up! Whitney!), and draws. Over at...
The art-world reality competition, Work of Art, with its oddball artists, overly harsh judges, and a terrifically animated mentor has become must-see television. Let’s be honest: Many of us watch rea...
There is no room for argument: Showtime’s provocative and gut-wrenching psychological thriller Homeland is the best new show of the season. Revolving around two very unreliable narrators engaged in a...
Community fans, this is your St. Crispin’s Day moment. Dumping Community in favor of shifting around the Thursday-night comedies feels a bit like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Community...
The most divisive show on television is FX’s American Horror Story, a haunted-house drama created by Glee’s Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, with viewers and critics loving it, hating it, or loving to h...
In NBC’s Parenthood, the show’s teens--including Mae Whitman, Sarah Ramos, and Miles Heizer--often walk away with the most heartbreaking and emotional storylines. Over at The Daily Beast, you can rea...
HBO’s Boardwalk Empire revolves around mob feuds, illegal bootlegging, and the corruption and venality that accompanied Prohibition. But beneath the surface, the show is about grasping at the America...
Warning: You do not want to miss Thursdays episode of Community. Its a given that some of the most ambitious episodes of NBCs Community are often the ones with the seemingly most straightforward conc...
At 66 and four-feet-nine, Linda Hunt is an unlikely action heroine. But as the enigmatic Hetty Lange on NCIS: LA, Oscar winner Hunt (who won for her staggering performance as a male Indonesian-Austra...
The wait is over. After months of waiting breathlessly for the repercussions of Alicia (Julianna Margulies) and Will (Josh Charles) entering that hotel room together (with Alicia taking control of th...
Jennifer Ehle, best known for playing Elizabeth Bennet in BBC’s Pride & Prejudice, co-stars in a new CBS drama, A Gifted Man. Over at The Daily Beast, you can read my latest feature, "A Gifted Ma...
There is an emergency session underway within the writers’ room of CBS’s critically acclaimed drama, The Good Wife, which returns for its third season on Sunday, Sept. 25. With 48 hours to go, the wr...
Try as you might, there are some marks that can never be scrubbed out entirely. There are some people who leave an indelible impression on our souls which remains long after theyve gone, an afterimag...
Its no secret that I love NBCs Parks and Recreation. Over at The Daily Beast, I have not one but two features on the Pawnee-set comedy today, which returns later this week for a fourth season. In Par...
The fall television season is now upon us, and the offerings seem pretty underwhelming for the most part. From must-watch entries like A Gifted Man, Revenge, Homeland, and Pan Am to the better-forgot...
While the Primetime Emmy Awards aren’t typically known for offering gasp-inducing surprises, last year’s ceremony did make an instant star out of The Good Wife’s Archie Panjabi, who walked off with t...
I had hoped to have a full review of tonights fantastic Parenthood season opener ("I Dont Want to Do This Without You"), but unfortunately Im being pulled in a thousand directions at the mome...
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