Author: Inkoo Kang
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Year In Review: The 13 Best TV Shows of 2013
According to the kind of people who are prone to make such pronouncements, the Golden Age of Television ended this year with the series finale…
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‘Homeland’ Season Finale Review: ‘The Star’ Guides Back to Carrie (But Where Do We Go From Here?)
For such an uneven show, Homeland has always excelled at season finales. At the close of every year, the writers have shaken up the show…
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HBO’s ‘Getting On’: A Cure for TV’s Plague of Hospital Shows
HBO’s ‘Getting On’: A Cure for TV’s Plague of Hospital Shows Nothing is less interesting to me than a TV series about doctors. Hospital shows take…
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‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ Review: A ‘Bridge’ to Nowhere
Mind-numbing tedium, thy name is Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. The only entertainment I derived from “The Bridge” was to marvel at how bad it was, from…
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‘Homeland’ Review: Echoes of a Better Past
I remember the instant I was hooked on Homeland. After a ten-year separation, Nicholas Brody, a POW presumed to dead, and his wife Jessica, who…
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How Netflix Is Making Traditional TV Better
It wasn’t too long ago – just last year, in fact – that journalists and pundits started drafting Netflix’s eulogy. A Google search for the…
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‘Homeland’ Review: Brody at Zero Dark Thirty
‘Homeland’ Review: Brody at Zero Dark Thirty “Good Night” was another transitional episode. Last week’s “One Last Time” had Brody shuttled from Venezuela to D.C. to…
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HBO’s ‘Ja’mie: Private School Girl’ Requires a Different Kind of Hate-Watching
Meet Ja’mie King. She’s seventeen, Australian, rich, “a step above hot,” and probably the only overtly racist and homophobic protagonist on TV. Played by 38-year-old male…
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‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ Review: A Backstory in Desperate Need of Repairs
“Repairs” gave me a huge bout of wisher’s remorse. Last night’s stinker of an episode did three things I’d wanted from the show – to reveal…