Sam Layton is a Chicago suburb native that's trying his best to make a career out of his (probably unhealthy) habit of watching too much television. When he's not working as the Third Coast Review's current sole TV reviewer, he's making his way through college or, shockingly, watching too much television.
“You’re just a patsy doing someone else’s jail time,” E. Howard Hunt’s (Woody Harrelson) daughter tells him. She’s sitting with her brother in a prison yard. Her father is in […]
My most consistent and major gripe with the first three episodes of White House Plumbers is the insistence that the audience is supposed to care about Hunt’s (Woody Harrelson) family. […]
Contrary to the dark and depressing content of the other shows I’m currently writing about (Barry and Succession), I do, in fact, like to have fun and feel good. There’s […]
Editor’s note: this article contains major episode spoilers. For a show with such universally praised writing, Succession has never employed a ton of symbolism. Most of its brilliance comes from […]
Editor’s Note: this article contains major episode spoilers. “He who seeks revenge digs two graves, Barry.” -Gene Cousineau I wish I could tell you that the ending of Barry is […]
“There has been an American tragedy played out in this courtroom,” lawyer Don Crowder (Tom Pelphrey) says in his closing argument to the jury of Candy Montgomery’s (Elizabeth Olsen) trial. […]
When Kendall (Jeremy Strong) gets up to speak at his father’s funeral in “Church and State,” there’s a sense that he could say anything. The relationship between Kendall and Logan […]
It was only when I finished “a nice meal” that I realized how relentlessly dark the past few episodes of Barry have been. You’d think it’d be during the period […]
The real horror of this week’s Love & Death episode occurred when I realized I still had half the episode to go. Courthouse dramas are always a bit of a […]
Will the leading men of White House Plumbers ever catch a break? After two episodes of buildup, the infamous Watergate heist (or heists, because as we see in “Don’t Drink […]
With how watchable, well-written, and entertaining Succession‘s characters are to watch, I find it too easy to forget that, at their core, none of them are good people (except Roman […]
Perhaps the biggest mystery Barry has to offer is why Barry Berkman (Bill Hader) makes the choices he does. He’s always under the spell of something, and he always seems […]