Steve Wilkie/FOX Accused Read more’9-1-1′ Boss Teases Bobby’s Investigation, Buck Answering ‘Who Am I?’ & MoreOne of TV’s most likable actors, Jason Ritter, plays a teacher who gets in way over his head as he reaches out to help a student in crisis in an emotionally and politically charged episode of the legal anthology. “Fletch,” … Read more
In a strong episode of CBS’s Bob Hearts Abishola, an estranged relative’s Nigerian funeral sends Abishola to Toronto, while Bob attends to factory matters back home. The Good Doctor welcomes Dr. Kalu back to the staff after several seasons away. 9-1-1 shifts into mystery mode when Bobby seeks the killer of his AA sponsor. Quantum … Read more
Sergei Bachlakov/AMC Lucky Hank Read more’9-1-1′ Boss Teases Bobby’s Investigation, Buck Answering ‘Who Am I?’ & MoreSUNDAY: Shifting gears from the slippery con man he played for years (never getting the Emmy he deserved) on Better Call Saul, Bob Odenkirk returns to the network as a frustrated professor in a droll dramedy adapted from Richard … Read more
Matt’s Rating: Forget “will they or won’t they?” Read moreNew Reindeer in Town, New Cross to Bear on ‘Monarch,’ 20 Years of ‘Love, Actually,’ End of ‘Sugar’In the PBS import Marie Antoinette, a tongue-in-rouged-cheek take on a period biography, the question is when will the diffident young Dauphin, later King Louis XVI, take his teenage … Read more
ABC/Matt Sayles The Oscars Read more’9-1-1′ Boss Teases Bobby’s Investigation, Buck Answering ‘Who Am I?’ & MoreSUNDAY: Jimmy Kimmel hosts the movie industry’s most revered night of celebration from Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre, with funky sci-fi action-comedy hybrid Everything Everywhere All at Once poised to win several top awards, including Best Picture and Lead Actress, though … Read more
Netflix Luther: The Fallen Sun Read more’9-1-1′ Boss Teases Bobby’s Investigation, Buck Answering ‘Who Am I?’ & MoreAfter five dark seasons (the last in 2019), TV’s most tormented detective, London’s John Luther (Idris Elba in his star-making role), is back in a feature film that may be his most brutal descent into horror yet. We … Read more
Welcome to the Q&A with TV critic — also known to some TV fans as their “TV therapist” — Matt Roush, who’ll try to address whatever you love, loathe, are confused or frustrated or thrilled by in today’s vast TV landscape. (We know background music is too loud, but there’s always closed-captioning.) Read more’9-1-1′ Boss … Read more
Shane Mahood/FOX Accused Read more’9-1-1′ Boss Teases Bobby’s Investigation, Buck Answering ‘Who Am I?’ & MoreComedian Whitney Cummings, who once headlined a self-titled NBC sitcom, takes a more somber turn in the drama anthology’s latest timely cautionary tale. She plays Brenda, a struggling New York stand-up comic who risks her future by going public after … Read more
Tyler Golden/Hulu History of the World: Part II Read more’9-1-1′ Boss Teases Bobby’s Investigation, Buck Answering ‘Who Am I?’ & MoreThe shamelessly joke-a-minute spirit of legendary clown Mel Brooks (now 96) fuels a four-night sequel (through Thursday) to his 1981 sketch-comedy romp through world history. Brooks is seen only briefly, his head attached CGI-style to … Read more
Matt’s Rating: Three years ago, I championed HBO’s bold decision to reinvent Erle Stanley Gardner’s iconic hero Perry Mason as a downtrodden, chronically rumpled gumshoe turned lawyer in Depression-era L.A. (Many viewers, and readers, disagreed, unwilling to abandon the stalwart image of Raymond Burr’s infallible, unflappable attorney from the 1950s and ’60s, still a favorite … Read more