Category Archives: My Take on TV

My Take On…ABC’s must watch comedy THE MAYOR

In ABC’s THE MAYOR, premiering at 9:30/8:30c tonight, Brandon Michael Hall plays Courtney Rose, a young Northern California rapper who, in an effort to bring attention to his budding music career, runs for Mayor of Fort Grey, California. When he attends the big debate, looking to promote his music (and not ever thinking he could actually win), he masterfully puts his opponent in place over the cleanup of a public park, leading to a surprise victory and a new job.

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My Take On…YOUNG SHELDON on CBS

In CBS’ YOUNG SHELDON, getting a special preview at 8:30/7:30c tonight before it moves to its regular home (still behind THE BIG BANG THEORY) on Thursdays (11/2, after football), we’re introduced to Sheldon Cooper as a 9-year-old. He wears a very specific bow-tie to school, the high school where his academic achievements have placed him at least 5 years early. He doesn’t get along very well with his family because his advanced brain puts him outside of their down-home norms

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My Take On…ME, MYSELF, & I on CBS

In CBS’ ME, MYSELF, & I, premiering tonight at 9:30/8:30c (before moving to the 9/8c timeslot at the end of October), Bobby Moynihan stars as Alex, a 40-year-old inventor whose recent-ex wife threatens to take his daughter, Abby, away from him. He’s facing a mid-life crisis and needs help from his best friend and partner, Jaleel White’s Darryl, to say in line. Also starring as Alex? Jack Dylan Grazer, a then-14-year-old verson in 1991, whose mother moves him from Chicago

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My Take On…THE GOOD DOCTOR on ABC

ABC’s THE GOOD DOCTOR (which counts David Shore and Daniel Dae Kim among the producers) tells the story of Dr Shaun Murphy (Freddie Highmore), a surgeon with autism and savant syndrome.  He leaves his quiet life to interview for a surgery position at San Jose’s St Bonaventure on a recommendation by his mentor, Richard Schiff’s Dr Aaron Glassman. The first episode follows Shaun’s journey from home to the hospital for his interview, making time, almost immediately, to show flashbacks of

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Quick Take: THE GOOD PLACE on NBC: “Everything is Great!”

THE GOOD PLACE returns to NBC tonight for Season 2, with an episode titled “Everything is Great!” and though the character who utters the line in the show might not be telling the whole (slash any of the) truth – believe me when I tell you that everything, from the writing to the performances, to the tweaks made to the town in the wake of Michael’s epic failure, is truly great. Season 1 of THE GOOD PLACE ended with Eleanor

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BETTER THINGS is back (and BETTER than ever)

BETTER THINGS was easily one of the best shows of 2016. Emmy-nominated star Pamela Adlon and her creative team put together something real, raw, dark, funny, endearing, and beautiful in season 1 and it should be no surprise that they’ve done it again with Season 2, which premieres tonight at 10/9c on FX. Adlon’s story of Sam, her daughters, and her mother Phil, dives even more deeply in season 2 into the exploration of modern life – what it means

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My Take On…YOU’RE THE WORST S4

Season 3 of YOU’RE THE WORST ended with Jimmy proposing to Gretchen and then immediately abandoning her in the hills as he took off for who knows where. When Season 4 picks back up tonight (at 10/9c on FXX with an hour long premiere), the show skips the immediate aftermath of what happened on that night, and shows us where our favorite people are 3 months down the line. It should be no surprise that neither Jimmy nor Gretchen is

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My Take On….THE SINNER on USA

“I don’t know. I just did it, and I don’t know why.” A line Jessica Biel’s character Cora Tannetti utters about halfway through the premiere of USA’s THE SINNER (tonight 10/9c) sums up the gist of this dark series: A mother (Cora) stabs a man that she doesn’t know, repeatedly and in front of her husband (Chris Abbott’s Mason), her child, and a ton of other witnesses on a sunny day at the beach.  The “Whydunnit,” as it’s being called,

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My Take On…ABC’s DIRTY DANCING

  ABC’s DIRTY DANCING is an almost shot-for-shot re-do of the classic 1987 movie of the same name.  Down to almost the exact same dialogue (watermelons included), the movie doesn’t re-boot so much as re-hashes a film we’ve already seen, and seen done way better.  Where the original featured an awesome soundtrack and creative original choreography, this new version finds the cast singing the songs instead, and the dancing? Original maybe, boring yes. Still the story of the coming of

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My Take On…NBC’s smart, funny TRIAL & ERROR

Absurdly hilarious and hilariously absurd, that’s the simplest description of NBC’s latest comedy, the true-crime-parody series TRIAL & ERROR that starts tonight with a back to back post-THIS-IS-US (10/9c) preview. Starring John Lithgow as Larry Henderson, a roller-skating, er, roller-cizing poetry professor who maybe murdered his wife, represented in court by Nicholas D’Agosto’s Josh Legal, a “NorthEastern” lawyer from New York trying his first murder in the fictional East Peck, SC, the show provides an inside look at the case in

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