Clark Collis

Reliably chilling horror anthology. [19/26 Oct 2018, p.92]

As in season 1, the emphasis is on character development rather than cracking up viewers, though Doug Benson, Artie Lange, and Bill Burr inspire chuckles by playing versions of themselves. [12 Jan 2018, p.55]

If the budget doesn't stretch to an excess of eye-popping CG, it is more than made up for by the walking special effect that is John C. McGinley, whose beleaguered, boozy ex-cop Stan is an enduring treat. [3 Nov 2017, p.56]

The two leads remain horribly entertaining as small men with huge chips on their shoulders. [15 Sep 2017, p.68]

This pilot does enough to have Leonard fans sticking around for more "Action!" [11 Aug 2017, p.53]

The set mostly computes. [16 Jun 2017, p.53]

The result features a large amount of dismemberment and has the good grace not to take itself seriously. [16 Jun 2017, p.53]

Holmes is terrific as the show's emotional core, a walking wound upon whom the universe dumps a daily portion of salt. Crashing is happy to wear its heart on its sleeve--or on the big goofy face of its leading men. [17 Feb 2017, p.54]

Compelling documentary.... Director Irene Taylor Brodsky utilizes police interrogation footage and interviews with the pair's families to craft not a tale about imaginary monsters, but about the far more terrifying subject of real-life mental-health issues. [27 Jan 2017, p.54]

If Stranger Things is an immediately yummy, nostalgia-inducing bowl of Count Chocula then The OA is a meal both fresher and more exotic, while still succeeding as a televisual page-turner.

[A] cockamamy confection. Low on thrills and seemingly without any budget whatsoever. [19/26 Aug 2016, p.102]

The humor can be pretty lowbrow ... but the agreeable cast--which includes Rhys Darby from Flight of the Conchords--suggests that all is not you-know-what. [17 Jun 2016]

Flowers is an extremely weird, if often very funny, comedy bouquet. [6 May 2016, p.51]

This theoretically grim material [addiction], but the real-life Maron transmutes it into gold. [6 May 2016, p.51]

Elizabeth Hurley and Joan Collins seem to be having fun, and there is a thrill to be gleaned from a show so at ease with its daftness. [13 Nov 2015, p.57]

There are new mysteries aplenty, albeit ones with a more beguiling, Ray Bradbury-esque tinge than before.... This premiere does enough to make us want to find out. [2 Oct 2015, p.69]

As usual, the laughs come from the thought that this doc Brown-homaging character may also have a little Hannibal Lecter in him as he sociopathically berates his grandkids Morty and Summer. [24 Jul 2015, p.55]

This reinvention is not a slasher tale at all but a drama that requires you to invest in its characters while forgetting that “somebody might die at every turn.”

Horgan and Delaney, who wrote the show together, play their characters off each other to perfection. The result may well turn out to be the worst--by which we mean the best--new comedy of the year. [19 Jun 2015, p.56]

Like the book, the miniseries can come across less as a believable depiction of a community than as a collection of grotesques, despite the best efforts of its top-notched cast to give their roles three dimensions. The one major exception is Terri's daughter, Krystal, a fully fleshed-out character played to perfection by newcomer Abigail Lawrie. [1 May 2015, p.50]

Atari: Game Over doubles as an entertaining profile of E.T. designer Howard Scott Warshaw. [17/24 Apr 2015, p.105]

The adequately nerve-shredding Best New Restaurant finds 16 recently opened eateries battling it out. [23 Jan 2015, p.70]

AHS may no longer have the element of surprise on its side, but it remains, to quote the lyrics of a certain David Bowie tune performed by Lange, the freakiest show. One of us? Count me in.

If the result is less rock & roll, both literally and metaphorically, than the director's films about the Band and Bob Dylan, it features an impressive list of interviewees, including Joan Didion and Michael Chabon.

Fantasy football's most entertainingly unpleasant competitors return to discover there are worse things than coming in at the bottom of the league (well, maybe).

"Don't Let Them In" reads the show's tagline, but we're happy to have this show intrude upon our Saturday nights for the time being. [22/29 Aug 2014, p.101]

There are many things to enjoy about this special-effects-makeup competition. [25 Jul/1 Aug 2014, p.106]

The production values are extremely high, but your tolerance for swordy nonsense will need to be similarly vertiginous for this to develop into a must-see. [25 Jul/1 Aug 2014, p.108]