Shows You Should Be Watching
Honest reviews. Zero hype.
The premise was the whole ad campaign: Tony Danza, a former ballplayer, moves into the Greenwich home of Judith Light’s advertising executive as the housekeeper, and America tuned in to watch the gender roles swap and then settle into a…
A prototype supercar, a rotating team of police test drivers, and a premise lifted so straight from Knight Rider that only the transformer gimmick counts as original. Viper’s car reconfigures from a sleek interceptor to an armored pursuit vehicle, the…
Four wronged Green Berets, one van, and a rule that the good guys never land a punch that shows. The A-Team is eighties action television reduced to a formula so pure it became a language: Hannibal sketches the plan, Face…
One season, one car, one miscalculation. The reboot swaps the drifter mystique of the original for Justin Bruening’s by the book Mike Tracker, keeps Hasselhoff behind the camera, and puts Val Kilmer in the voice box, reading KITT’s lines like…
A dead crime fighter, a dying driver, and a car that calls him Mike. Knight Rider distilled is a car commercial with a body count, but David Hasselhoff’s long haired loner Michael Knight became a genuine eighties icon because the…
Melinda Gordon sees dead people at yard sales and estate liquidations in Grant, Ohio, and spends five seasons on CBS doing what network television does best: a gentle procedural where the mystery is how someone died and the payoff is…
After Gozer got tossed through the skyline, the franchise’s smarter move was to animate the property instead of chasing it. The Real Ghostbusters keeps the firehouse, keeps the containment units, and turns the team loose on a weekly parade of…
A pompadoured gym rat with Elvis lips and zero self awareness flexes at women who recoil, and the joke holds for three seasons because Van Partible built the perfect machine: Johnny never learns, never lands, and never stops trying. The…
Before Married… with Children, television families fixed each other over kitchen tables. Al Bundy (Ed O’Neill, selling every shoe counter monologue like a solo stage act) hated his wife, his kids, his couch, his job, and the audience was expected…
It starts with a bride in a wedding dress running into a coffee shop, and somehow that soft focus setup became the most watched comfort television in history. Six twentysomethings hang out between an apartment, a balcony across the hall,…