TV Reviews4/25/174/25/17 10:23PMSaveTV Reviews4/25/17BTV ReviewsThe Flash meets his future self in the darkest timelineScott Von Doviak796As if to prove that Barry Allen isn’t the worst after all, “The Once And Future Flash” takes us to the year 2024,…
TV Reviews4/23/174/23/17 11:03PMSaveTV Reviews4/23/17B-TV ReviewsChuck soars and Axe unravels as Billions stays the courseScott Von Doviak105Ten episodes in, the trajectories of season two remain steady. The other shoe has yet to drop. A couple of episodes…
TV Reviews4/16/174/16/17 11:02PMSaveTV Reviews4/16/17B+TV ReviewsThis time it’s personal on a simmering BillionsScott Von Doviak93“Sic Transit Imperium,” Wags helpfully tells those of us frustrated with Google Translate’s inadequacies, is a Latin…
TV Reviews4/12/174/12/17 9:17PMSaveTV Reviews4/12/17TV ReviewsA desperate player makes the ugliest move in Survivor historyScott Von Doviak398Because The A.V. Club knows that TV shows keep going even if we’re not writing at length about them, we’re…
TV Reviews4/9/174/09/17 11:00PMSaveTV Reviews4/9/17BTV ReviewsAxe crashes the party on a transitional BillionsScott Von Doviak64The scales have been tilted so far in Chuck’s direction this season, Billions has to be setting us up for a big…
TV Reviews4/7/174/07/17 9:00AMSaveTV Reviews4/7/17C-TV ReviewsHugh Hefner gets the cheesy docudrama treatment in American PlayboyScott Von Doviak49The life of Hugh Hefner is not exactly uncharted territory for documentary filmmaking, as several feature-length…
TV Reviews4/2/174/02/17 11:00PMSaveTV Reviews4/2/17BTV ReviewsThe rich get richer and the rest get screwed on a business-as-usual BillionsScott Von Doviak74A crisis of conscience on Billions? It feels like a little late in the game for Bobby Axelrod to be wrestling with a…
TV Reviews3/28/173/28/17 10:10PMSaveTV Reviews3/28/17CTV ReviewsThe Flash teases a major reveal it fails to deliverScott Von Doviak614This is the episode in which we finally learn Savitar’s true identity…until it isn’t. After all, it’s already Flash…
TV Reviews3/26/173/26/17 11:04PMSaveTV Reviews3/26/17BTV ReviewsBillions restores the status quo...to a pointScott Von Doviak95Roughly halfway through this season, Billions has quickly wrapped up several of the major story arcs. Chuck is no…
TV Reviews3/21/173/21/17 9:01PMSaveTV Reviews3/21/17A-TV ReviewsA musical crossover with Supergirl is the cure for what ails The FlashScott Von Doviak1.1K“Musicals have the power to make everything better.” That’s what Barry Allen’s mother used to tell him, and while…
TV Reviews3/19/173/19/17 11:03PMSaveTV Reviews3/19/17B-TV ReviewsBillions shorts its viewers’ ability to understand characters and their motivationsScott Von Doviak50What Billions does well: present complicated financial schemes simply and clearly enough that someone who is…
TV Reviews3/15/173/15/17 9:59PMSaveTV Reviews3/15/17TV ReviewsAn early tribe swap dooms one SurvivorScott Von Doviak173Because The A.V. Club knows that TV shows keep going even if we’re not writing at length about them, we’re…
TV Reviews3/12/173/12/17 11:04PMSaveTV Reviews3/12/17BTV ReviewsChuck gets aggressive while Axe makes the wrong moves on BillionsScott Von Doviak68Last episode ended with both Chuck and Axe riding high, but ”The Oath” finds the pendulum swinging in Chuck’s favor.…
TV Reviews3/7/173/07/17 10:20PMSaveTV Reviews3/7/17C+TV ReviewsTeam Flash can’t stop keeping secrets from each other and it’s really getting oldScott Von Doviak914A week or so ago, I happened upon the episode description for “The Wrath Of Savitar” on my cable guide, and my heart…
TV Reviews3/5/173/05/17 11:03PMSaveTV Reviews3/5/17B+TV ReviewsBillions goes all-in on its most intriguing new characterScott Von Doviak132Toxic masculinity has been Billions’ blue chip stock since day one, regardless of the show’s occasional feints…
TV Reviews2/28/172/28/17 10:15PMSaveTV Reviews2/28/17B-TV ReviewsThe Flash thwarts an underwhelming gorilla invasion in a needlessly downbeat episodeScott Von Doviak732The promised gorilla invasion of Central City plays more like Waiting For Grodd-o for most of tonight’s hour of The…
TV Reviews2/21/172/21/17 10:32PMSaveTV Reviews2/21/17B+TV ReviewsThe Flash visits Gorilla City, because that’s what we’ve been waiting forScott Von Doviak651As exciting as it was to learn that The Flash would be paying a visit to Gorilla City this season, the prospect…
TV Reviews2/7/172/07/17 10:02PMSaveTV Reviews2/7/17CTV ReviewsThe Flash cycles through familiar conflicts in an episode that plays like a rerunScott Von Doviak577Theory: there’s a meta we haven’t met yet, one who has been pulling the strings since the beginning. Let’s call him…
TV Reviews1/31/171/31/17 10:08PMSaveTV Reviews1/31/17B+TV ReviewsThe Flash brings a light touch to matters of life and deathScott Von Doviak418The death sentence hanging over Iris West’s head could very easily render the back half of season three into another…
TV Reviews1/24/171/24/17 9:58PMSaveTV Reviews1/24/17BTV ReviewsA low-key transitional episode reveals possible futures for The FlashScott Von Doviak478The powers-that-be in the Berlantiverse must have been well aware that The Flash would disappear from the schedule…