Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Monday, February 18. All times are Eastern.

After a two-week hiatus (which came right on the heels of a five-week hiatus), Supergirl returns with a belated celebration of Valentine’s Day and an even more belated homage to Tom Hardy’s Venom. Okay, to be fair, I’m not entirely sure Menagerie’s role was actually a nod to Venom, as the symbiotic alien villain has…

“An amiable guy who makes everyone suffer through his hellish process.”

“You’re Dead To Me” deals with the fallout of Macy learning that she was resurrected, and pretty quickly we’re treated to a flashback that establishes the logistics of that. Marisol and Macy’s father summoned a necromancer from Tartarus to bring their dead baby back, but as with most spells of this nature, it came…

Almost any character on a TV show contains a world of storytelling possibilities. As a means of establishing the character of Alpha, the harsh and violent new antagonist and leader of the Whisperers, “Omega” is bluntly effective. As an episode of The Walking Dead, it’s pretty thin gruel.

Since returning to the Bob’s Burgers beat earlier this season, my general sense of the show is that it’s, well, pleasant. That already connotes a criticism, and that’s not my intention. It’s just that the show has figured out a reliable formula not just its jokes or its stories, but also for each of its characters.…

Some of the best directors in the business, talking one of the best films of last year.

Humbled after a few humiliating spins on a roller coaster that began with the announcement, then eventual retraction, of the “Best Popular Film” category back in August of 2018, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is attempting to appease its now thoroughly ruffled membership, as well as the audience for…

A NYPD commander is currently under investigation for telling his unit to “shoot him on sight” if they saw Curtis Jackson, a.k.a. 50 Cent, at a NYPD-sanctioned boxing match last June, as as the New York Daily News reports. Although Deputy Inspector Emanuel Gonzalez reportedly tried to pass the comment off as a…

Star Wars: Episode IX—We Still Don’t Have A Title Yet officially wrapped shooting this past Friday after nine long months, and that only means one thing: wrap party! And it was truly a wrap party: Episode IX marks the official end of the so-called “Skywalker saga,” completing the narrative arc that began with the…

This week’s entry: Oliver Cromwell’s head

“Grr, how do you waste Don Cheadle?,” growled a frustrated nation of Saturday Night Live viewers after last night’s pedestrian outing. But there were a few bright spots (including a killer set from musical guest Gary Clark Jr.), none brighter and sillier than a sketch where a roadhouse fistfight is temporarily…

Let’s all give it up with some percussive recognition.

Here’s what’s happening in the world of television for Sunday, February 17. All times are Eastern. 

After the better part of a weekend in which the Chicago Police Department was publicly careful about pushing back against news reports suggesting it was investigating the racist and homophobic attack against Empire actor Jussie Smollett last month as a hoax, the dam has apparently begun to break. CNN reports tonight…