If only predicting fall TV hits could be as simple as predicting Super Bowls. (We all know the Patriots will be there for a fourth straight year. It’s just the way of the world.) TV is always murkier. Good shows are few and far between these days. Network pilots (or when those aren’t available, the […]
Yes, you can attend a Gatsby-like party on the East or West Coast with caviar and television critics who admittedly never actually put on a live television program anymore and just stream a few shows they get from Netflix and Hulu and HBO on demand and just assume those are the best TV shows out […]
LOS ANGELES — With about a minute to go before going live, a hush fell across the five hundred or so people packed into the studio on the CBS Television City Lot in Los Angeles. The crowd had its instructions of when to start cheering. The Survivors were assembled in three groups on stage: those […]
Each December, as the year comes to a close, I put together my Top 10 TV Shows of 2018 list. This year, I did that on a different site, but I thought I would put together a list of the Best of 2018 in TV for Entertainment Fuse. The Best New Show, the Best Performance, […]
July is nearly halfway over, which means it’s time to fill you in on the new original programming set to land on Hulu in these next few weeks. Unlike fellow streaming site Netflix (which seems to have more programming than any sane person could watch in a given month), Hulu has only a handful of […]
I accepted many years ago that I would never fully understand how or why certain television shows get Emmy nominations. But, unlike the Golden Globes (where money talks when it comes to recognition in the television fields), the Emmy Awards hold themselves up as the gold standard of recognizing the best and the brightest in […]
I was a big fan of season one of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale. While I had a few reservations about the level of anguish and violence throughout the story, I was taken in by the incredible performances (I’m still amazed that Alexis Bledel is such a spectacular actress) and the interesting flourishes added to Margaret […]
While June isn’t quite over yet (and one of Netflix’s best series is still set to premiere later this week), it’s time for what you might have missed on Netflix this past month. Queer Eye: Season Two If my social media news feeds are anything to go by, I doubt many people missed out on […]
The first thing you should know about The Americans is that all the best Russian stories are tragedies. The Russians have made an art of the genre. And, while The Americans is many things over the course of its six seasons, you know, instinctively, it is going to be a tragedy. Chekhov’s proverbial gun is […]
Amazon Prime, the streaming television network you probably didn’t realize you had, has been lagging behind both Netflix and Hulu in terms of splashy shows and awards buzz (while Amazon has managed to snag some awards with their now troubled comedy Transparent, they’ve yet to achieve the zeitgeisty buzz of a Handmaid’s Tale or House of Cards). The […]
