Tag: Pilot

NBC’s Revolution opens with a somewhat exciting teaser (if you’re into that sort of thing) in which all technology across the world ceases to work, leaving the human race

One of the great pleasures in life is learning from experience. When life gives you lemons, you don’t just make lemonade; you also get…

Reviewing the pilot for Major Crimes feels a bit like writing about a random episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. TNT has advertised the…

I admit it’s an odd thing for me to review the V pilot so long after ABC cancelled the series. On the one hand,…

What’s with all the 9/11 references this year? I expected news shows to make a big deal out of the tragedy’s ten-year anniversary, but we also got gratuitous

I don’t get people’s fascination with dinosaurs. I’ve slept through Jurassic Park (1993) three times in my life and have yet to see

The challenge with pilots is they’ve got such specific remits the writers can’t afford to get creative. Characters and contexts may vary, but the…

Have you ever tuned in to a soap opera and started resenting the characters for wasting their vast wealth and whining incessantly about the…

Once upon a time, there was Law & Order, a police drama with a streamlined approach that no one could imitate. That is, except…

In response to the success of AMC’s Mad Men, the major networks have chosen to assault us this year with a slew of sixties period pieces, each dealing