I've never felt like the Rafi & Dirty Randy adventures belonged on The League, and killing off Sofia (a barely-there role that wasted the talents of a fine comedic actress in Nadine Velazquez) leaves a sour taste in my mouth on the face of it. So I'm willing to believe this is an F-worthy outing although I won't be…

A thought: maybe the series is underlining the same 3-4 characters and their relationships because the Muppets, apart from a couple of movies that did OK but not break-the-bank business, have been on the shelf for a generation? If this was a new sitcom, we would be spending the first eight episodes still getting to…

I cottoned immediately to Meers being a woman in drag, but dismissed it because it's hardly the weirdest gimmick I've ever seen in stage magic. But man, how lucky were those documentary filmmakers?

As a non-fan of True Blood, I knew I recognized Livewire from somewhere, but it took a reminder from IMDb to spring it loose: she was Lacey Thornfield on The Middleman!

It's a cliché for a reason, though. The type of person that becomes a police officer is a person who, by training and temperament, insists on taking charge of a situation regardless of their level of understanding of it. It's not a job for a "wait and see" or "walk softly until you're sure" personality. And the…

Saw the pilot, liked the soundtrack, was mildly intrigued by the premise, but the other two episodes that aired were allowed to pile up on my DVR, and given this news I think they'll slip gently into that good night.

You know, the one thing about Gerald that doesn't work for me? His voice sounds almost identical to Tim Van Patten's in Master Ninja. It's incredibly distracting, and I don't think there's anything he can do about it.

@lironmiron:disqus, exactly. Hank was really hurting there, three-quarters convinced that he was falling into the deep dark, and Nick not only did nothing to reassure him but stone-cold lied to his face in order to keep his secret. That's no way for a hero to treat his partner, a stand-up guy whom he has relied on…

Especially egregious when the character is a detective, for pity's sake. Although Clive does seem to be doing less than 50% of the detecting lately. But it was simply brutal how long Grimm took to bring Hank into the fold, and included the very ugly scene of Nick trying to convince his partner he was losing his mind…

From what I could tell, Minor's former owner and the guy with the children who were crying on TV were the two other bodies, meaning he had killed several before switching tactics.

And The Following, and Gracepoint. The AVC reviews things it thinks their audience will be interested in, and superhero cartoons qualify. For that matter, this isn't a bad show, and the reviewer's bad grade simply reflects his disappointment that it has made a rare episode that is only as good as a conventional…

The whole exercise smacked of "between Cosby and Broad City blowing up, we gotta get a development deal inked with this guy so he doesn't go shopping over at Fox, and it doesn't really matter what the final product is."

My questions in order of urgency.

Great reading headlines, pretty good in bits with correspondents, very green in interviews. In other words, everything we could expect and right on schedule.

I liked a lot of Starz programming, although Spartacus was probably the highlight. Da Vinci's Demons, currently airing its third and final season, is a reasonably fun romp with some pretty good actors. Sadly, Camelot squandered the potential of "Eva Green as Morgan le Fay" (a gauntlet that Penny Dreadful over on…

This maneuver is depicted in the film, as well. One of the American campaign pros Bullock's character works for inexplicably has secret State Department connections, which she leverages to make the US Ambassador speech happen as a means of driving support from the front-runner to a third campaign.

That's because in the film, the trailer-worthy speech is the setup for a joke: barely anyone in the room speaks English, and she slowly starts to grasp this as she winds it up.

Count me as another fan of Sam Rosen, whom I get to see a lot of as a Bears fan, since the Bears are what we in the business call "not good." Sadly, being the low pro on the totem pole often means he has a newbie and/or a talking side of beef as his broadcast partner, which makes for colorless color commentary. But…

Over on HBO, we've got Brienne the Beauty, and of course there are the many "Divas" of the WWE. Various fighting women on Spartacus, back when. Xena, the Warrior Princess a couple decades ago. They're out there.

It is indeed, and not a minute too soon. Reviewing the list of episodes recently, I discovered that at least three of my favorites were in the third season, which seems to be the creative sweet-spot of many a series — the writers are confident enough to spread their wings, and the show is well-known enough to …