It's interesting how you mention Stevie's potential, since I had just said how he is the one character I wasn't invested in yet. But after the next (seventh) episode, Stevie's interactions with Donny and Divin' Dave actually caused me to see some of his potential as well.

Well, I can't say that watching season one of Magic City has convinced me to subscribe to Starz, but I'll certainly be on the lookout for opportunities to watch the second season for free. I really enjoyed the last two episodes in this first season, which steadily improved from an intriguing but stereotype-ridden…

Well, I can't say that watching season one of Magic City has convinced me to subscribe to Starz, but I'll certainly be on the lookout for opportunities to watch the second season for free. I really enjoyed the last two episodes in this first season, which steadily improved from an intriguing but stereotype-ridden…

This episode of Magic City is the one that finally lived up to its promise; that gave us something on par with the quality of other solid cable shows that often fly under the national radar, like Shameless or The Borgias or Justified or Orphan Black.

This episode of Magic City is the one that finally lived up to its promise; that gave us something on par with the quality of other solid cable shows that often fly under the national radar, like Shameless or The Borgias or Justified or Orphan Black.

Will's grade for this episode was certainly justified, as it was indeed the best ep of the season and better than last week's A-. Since I am binge-watching the show and making one comment per episode, it's probably easier for me to recall exactly how Ike spent the $100k from Ben:

This is my fifth comment on the show, having previously commented once each on the previous four episodes, all of them a year after the show originally aired (talk about Johnny-come-lately).

It's curious that this episode, while getting the lowest grade of the season from Will, was the ep that really bonded me with the show. I'm all in now!

I mentioned last week that I really liked the casting of Magic City, and then this week Will says "the cast isn’t full of a couple of 18-karat barnburners"! Well, maybe there's not an Emmy winner in the bunch, but Jeffrey Dean Morgan seems born to play this role. His demeanor…his aura…is perfectly suited to the role…

This is the episode that began to convince me how effective the casting is for the show. Each character is portrayed almost too perfectly by the actor or actress, in such a way that it feels almost effortless. The near-immediate identification of cast to characters engenders trust in the cast and offers a lot of…

Well, the showrunners didn't say Jackie literally planned these events, but more like they occurred subconciously because of Jackie losing her battle with addiction. So her daughter's rebelliousness was obviously not entirely within Jackie's control, but when the rebellion crested, Jackie took the easy way out and…

I'm going to catch up on this series since the first season is being offered for free by Comcast. Who knows, maybe I would actually subscribe to Starz (to get the second season of Magic City) if it knocks my sock off my dick.

Not true, we have The Killing.

As a season finale, I think Les was right to give it an A. As a designed series finale it would deserve a C bordering on a D, except of course it wasn't designed as a series finale. As an unintentional series finale, Les is right that it did end up as a decent farewell episode, perhaps worthy of a B.

Despite the snarky review and "this sucks" commentary, I remain steadfast that this season turned out pretty solid. The season premiere was relatively weak with so many characters and plot points reshuffling into old places, but from the second ep forward the show kept building and building with better scripts and new…

I wonder what show is the dirtiest broadcast TV show today? New Girl? There are certainly interesting parallels between the first two seasons of the two shows.

I'm afraid "Fuck You The Killing" is going to live on AVC even if The Killing runs six seasons and gets better every year. Obviously a lot of people still think its funny (it's way too tiresome to actually be funny anymore, much the same as "Classic Poe").

Are there a lot of people here who either work or aspire to work in TV/movies/stage? Because if you're watching great (even all-time great) TV series more than 4 or 5 times over, you damn well better be doing it to improve your skillset. You other people need to expand your horizons a bit. I can see watching an…

Agreed. I'm bummed that they didn't get the 2-hour "wrap-up" movie that Les alluded to a couple weeks ago. It seems pretty shitty of Showtime to leave the show's fans hanging with an unplanned finale, even if Jordan states that it sort of serves as a finale. I really, really wanted to see the end of Alexander's papacy…

Well, this won't gain a lot of support, but I'd go with Fred (played by Michael O'Keefe), who was Jackie's boyfriend on Roseanne. Fred was the laid-back but reasonably intelligent dude who got Jackie pregnant and then pined to get back together with her after she had the baby. He was a long-running interloper, but he…