When Showtime's excellent thriller "Homeland" ended its first season, it was with bipolar CIA operations officer Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) in the hospital and about to undergo electroconvulsive therapy, her confidence and sanity a wreck thanks to her investigation into return...
Read More »Sure, Sunday is overcrowded with high-end TV like "True Blood," "The Newsroom," "Weeds," the just-returned "Breaking Bad" and "Political Animals," but what to watch the rest of the time? Each Monday, we bring you this guide to five notewort...
Read More »"You... snapped?" Showtime's put up a two-minute sneak peek from the upcoming seventh season of "Dexter" (which starts Sunday, September 30 at 9pm), and it's a juicy one taking up right where the finale left off, with Deb (Jennifer Carpenter) walking in on Dexter (Mi...
Read More »Gideon Raff grew up in Israel but studied film in Los Angeles, a stay that was intended to be for two years but turned into nine after he got a job as Doug Liman’s assistant on "Mr. & Mrs. Smith." He made two features in the US -- 2007's "The Killing Floor" and...
Read More »Season two of the Lisa Kudrow comedy "Web Therapy" premiered last night on Showtime, with the "Friends" star returning as self-serving shrink Fiona Wallace, who's managed to convince her clients to see her for short video chat sessions instead of doing anything extended or in...
Read More »Sure, Sunday is overcrowded with high-end TV like "True Blood," "The Newsroom," the just-returned "Weeds" and the can't-get-here-soon-enough "Breaking Bad," but what to watch the rest of the time? Each Monday, we bring you this guide to five noteworthy hig...
Read More »Jenji Kohan's Mary-Louise Parker-as-a-pot-dealing-mom dramedy "Weeds" kicked off its eighth and final season last night by addressing the cliffhanger with which last season ended -- the sniper pointing a gun at someone in the Botwin family.
Read More »Among other priceless bits of show-business guidance in the brilliant new season of Episodes, you’ll learn this: when the father of a television network president dies, don’t even think about sending a paltry muffin basket, because Michelle Pfeiffer and David Kelley will be donating...
Read More »The sundrenched shores of Miami, Florida have know played home to the murderous ways of Dexter Morgan since the series “Dexter” started in 2006, since then the show has had six Golden Globe and Emmy-winning seasons, with an seventh in the can. Though things look as if they are settling down as “Dex...
Read More »The last season of Showtime's serial killer drama "Dexter" ended with the promise of things significantly changing on a show that's become frustratingly struck in a pattern. Debra Morgan (Jennifer Carpenter), Dexter's (Michael C. Hall) adoptive sister, walked in on and witnesse...
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