Bob’s Burgers Season 9, Episode 1: “Just One of the Boyz 4 Now for Now” Bob’s Burgers enters its ninth season on Fox in a new Sunday night-time slot between two other long-running animated shows—The Simpsons (starting season 30) and Family Guy (kicking off season 17). And while all three shows hold a prominent place…
Ballers Season 4, Episode 9: “The Devil You Know” The last few episodes of Ballers have been about corrupt organizations and how best to deal with them. The show has primarily explored this topic through Spencer’s dealings with the NCAA. Last week, a new organization was introduced, although it’s really not new since it’s been…
How to Get Away with Murder Season 5, Episode 1: “Your Funeral” Annalise Keating is one of the most fascinating characters on television, and not just because Viola Davis is a tour de force (although that’s a huge part of it). Over the last four seasons, we’ve seen her at her best, her worst, and…
By now it is more than evident that Castle Rock is a town of terrible occurrences. The newspapers are filled over the decades with stories of crimes of passion, hate-filled revenge, unlikely endings, and atrocities that confound all. Recent weeks have only brought more of the same. Havoc of all sorts sweeping through the town….
Better Call Saul Season 4, Episode 8: “Coushatta” At first glance, Better Call Saul appears to be a show about transformation. And, in a very basic sense, that’s true—it’s the story of how Jimmy McGill becomes Saul Goodman. It’s also about the development of the Breaking Bad universe and a few of its supporting characters,…
Ballers Season 4, Episode 7: “The Kids Are Aight” While this season of Ballers hasn’t been its best up to this point, the writers haven’t shied away from controversial material, and I applaud them for that. This season’s main storyline has been about exposing NCAA corruption (which we’ll get to in a few minutes), and…
Ruth Deaver has been through a lot in her time on this Earth. Now she has come to a point in which all that she loves and all that she holds dear is smoke. Ruth has been diagnosed as being in the early stages of Alzheimer’s. Her mind often goes elsewhere forgetting where she is,…
Better Call Saul Season 4, Episode 7: “Something Stupid” People stay together for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes those reasons really aren’t that good, but the familiarity of the relationship makes it easier to just go through the motions than to face the fact that things just aren’t working. So we tell ourselves that it…
Ballers Season 4, Episode 6: “No Small Talk” Last week, Spencer started putting a plan in motion that would make Sports X relevant again and avoid an eight-figure loss on the entire deal. Sure, it involved what looked like some pretty shady shit, but surely Spencer would ultimately do the right thing—right? This week, the…
Better Call Saul Season 4, Episode 6: “Piñata” As much as I like both of them, I’ve never really bought Jimmy and Kim as a couple. I’m sure part of that is because we can see into their future, and we know that Kim’s not a part of Saul Goodman’s life. So there’s no reason…
Ballers Season 4, Episode 5: “Doink” Through all of the ups and downs of the last three seasons, Spencer Strasmore has taken a lot of risks, and he’s played fast and loose at times with basic ethics and morality. He usually does the right thing in the end though. Depending on your particular worldview, that…
Ballers Season 4, Episode 4: “Forgiving is Living” It’s tough being the go-to guy all the time. There’s a lot of pressure on you when you’re always expected to take the last shot or carry the ball over the goal line as time runs out, and it can be too much for even the great…
Life is nothing shy of a mystery for the townspeople of Castle Rock. It is only a matter of time before the truths that haunt this town come to the surface. As the first season of Castle Rock has progressed, so have the depth of mysteries and the tensions. Until the arrival of The Kid,…
It has been weeks since The Kid was found. Still no name, still no further information on him and a mess for the Warden to clean up. The new Warden has no reason to hold The Kid and has been trying to keep the entire ordeal under wraps since it occurred. There is no logical…
Season 1, Episode 4: ‘The Box’ Episodes 1 through 3 were just the start of the mysteries that live within the hearts, heads, and houses of Castle Rock. The townspeople have witnessed the terrors that have plagued the town for decades. In Season 2, Episode 4: “The Box,” we have the culmination of various factors…