B+Season 1Frequency neatly wraps up the season, possibly the seriesGwen Ihnat1/26/17 5:00amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAt this writing, we still don’t know if there is a Frequency season two. So we can be thankful that the Frequency…
BSeason 1Frequency gives us a somewhat surprising Nightingale twistGwen Ihnat1/19/17 11:30amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe problem/fun of mysteries in TV and movies is that A plus A will probably never equal B, because where’s the fun in…
CSeason 1Time-travel timelines get wonky on FrequencyGwen Ihnat1/12/17 9:00amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkI’m at the TCAs right now, and yesterday there was a question for a panel on yet another time travel show, ABC’s Time…
B+Season 1Did Frequency finally kill the Nightingale?Gwen Ihnat1/04/17 11:00pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkWe can talk a lot about taking a time machine and going back in time to kill Hitler. But the fact remains that if,…
B+Season 1Frequency reveals the Nightingale killer in a mostly riveting winter finaleGwen Ihnat12/08/16 1:00amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkSo Frequency ends its 2016 run with the reveal of the Nightingale: To no one’s surprise, it’s Deacon Joe. Frank,…
B+Season 1Some Frequency “Interference” may actually be leading us to the killerGwen Ihnat12/01/16 6:00amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAs we get closer to the midseason finale of a multiple-episode mystery like Frequency, at least we get the advantage of…
BSeason 1Frequency smartly plays up its dualities in “Break, Break, Break”Gwen Ihnat11/17/16 1:00amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe whole premise of Frequency is cloaked in duality: the parallel lives of Raimy and Frank and how those two lives…
BSeason 1Frequency’s “Deviation” offers a strange parallel to our reality right nowGwen Ihnat11/09/16 11:10pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkAs I’ve mentioned, Frequency is one of several time travel series on the air right now. Last night, Timeless’ Abigail…
B-Season 1Frequency loses momentum by juggling a few too many timelinesGwen Ihnat11/03/16 5:00amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkOkay, I’ve been up all night with the Cubs, so maybe it’s the sleep deprivation talking, but I keep watching this…
A-Season 1Frequency moves closer to the Nightingale killer in an effective episodeGwen Ihnat10/27/16 2:00amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThis episode of Frequency was supposed to run next week (episode five) instead of this week (episode four). It looks…
BSeason 1Frequency uses the future to solve crimes in the pastGwen Ihnat10/20/16 1:00amSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkBetween the Cubs-Dodgers game and the final presidential debate, I’m probably the only person in America who watched …
B-Season 1Frequency’s time travel veers toward convoluted in episode number 2Gwen Ihnat10/12/16 9:10pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkI may be one of the only people who liked the Ashton Kutcher movie The Butterfly Effect, and it’s for the same reason…
B+Season 1Frequency kicks off a time-travel show with actual consequencesGwen Ihnat10/05/16 9:20pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkMany of the critiques of the new show Frequency appear to stem from the fact that it is based on a 2000 Dennis Quaid…
C+Frequency’s time-hopping radio can’t cut through a staticky adaptationErik Adams10/04/16 4:55pmSaveEditEmbiggenSend to EditorsPromoteGo to permalinkThe advantage of remaking a property like Frequency—the 2000 timeline twister in which Jim Caviezel interacts with…
