Marco Polo Season 1 Episode 9 Review: “Prisoners”
Marco Polo is constantly drowning interesting moments in a lot of pedantic, overstuffed melodrama – and that season-long trend continues in “Pris
Author: Randy Dankievitch
Since 2011, Randy Dankievitch has written about television, film, video games, and pop culture all over the internet, including Sound on Sight, Geeks Unleashed, and SLUG Magazine. He currently writes for TVOvermind and TVRoundtable, where he also co-hosts the TVRoundtable podcast.
Ground Floor Season 2 Episode 5 Review: “Mano-a-Mansfield”
Ground Floor is adept at quite a lot of things; however, the show’s writing is consistently its most impressive feature. A show aware of both its posi
Mozart in the Jungle Season 1 Episode 2 Review: “Fifth Chair”
Though the pilot of Mozart in the Jungle established an ensemble of characters, there’s an extreme focus on Hailey in “Fifth Chair”, an at
Marco Polo Season 1 Episode 8 Review: “Rendering”
The way Marco Polo‘s paced its first season, it was almost expected that “Rendering” would delay the Battle of Xiangyang until episode nine
Mozart in the Jungle Season 1 Episode 1 Review: “Pilot”
Based on oboist Blair Tindell’s 2005 memoir Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music, Mozart in the Jungle was one of Amazon’s fir
Marco Polo Season 1 Episode 7 Review: “The Scholar’s Pen”
An important narrative turning point for Marco Polo‘s first season, “The Scholar’s Pen” is a promising episode that ultimately suffer
Benched Season 1 Episodes 11 & 12 Review: “Campaign Contributions”/”Brief Encounters”
On the path to find a new self, one often relapses, a moment of weakness where routine and complicity sneak in and threaten to undermine any semblance of prog
Ground Floor Season 2 Episode 4 Review: “The Break-ups”
At first, “The Break-ups” is another innocent episode of Ground Floor, centered around a new rival to Remington Steele poaching Mansfield’s
Selfie Season 1 Episode 13 Review: “I Woke Up Like This”
Considering the circumstances, “I Woke Up Like This” is a pretty perfect series finale for Selfie, a half-hour that marks the progress of its ma
The Simple Charms of My Boys
From 2006 until 2010, TBS intermittently aired a hangout comedy called My Boys, one of the network’s early forays into original television. Noticed by
