dvr this HBO, Sunday, June 29, 10 p.m, Damon Lindelof, the producer of Lost, has taken Tom Perotta’s novel about the people in a suburban town left after the Rapture and turned it into HBO’s next prestige series. It’s hard to know how good the show will be, since Lindelof has famously ruined several…
dvr this HBO, Sunday, June 22, 10 p.m. The TV show with the highest ratio of trash to production values, True Blood is returning for its seventh and final season. At this point, the hyper sexual and hyper violent vampire soap opera set in rural Louisiana is no longer HBO’s zeitgeist show – that’s a…
dvr this On demand on Netflix The second season of Netflix’s breakout hit dramatic comedy about a women’s prison debuted last week, and I binged on all thirteen episodes in one sitting. The second season is better than the first. By focusing less on annoyingly entitled blonde goody good Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), and much…
dvr this Turner Classic Movies Saturday, June 7 2:15 p.m. If you are one of the few people still watching Glee, you’ll know that Rachel (Lea Michelle) has inexplicably been cast as the lead in a Broadway revival of Funny Girl, the musical that made Barbra Streisand a Broadway star and then a movie star….
dvr this AMC, Sunday, June 1, 10 p.m. In the early 1980s, the tech boom in Texas is seen through, as we’re told by AMC, a visionary (Lee Pace from Pushing Daisies and The Hobbit), an engineer (Scott McNary from Argo) and a prodigy (a punkish McKenzie Davis). The clips that have been making the…
dvr this Available for rent at Redbox Instant Voted the Best Film of 2013 by the San Diego Film Critics Society, Her is the least flashy of Spike Jonze’s movies, substituting the wondrous quirk of Being John Malkovich with a lush depiction of romance. That romance, however, is between a lonely writer of love-notes named…
dvr this On Netflix In 1987, Juno Temple is the eponymous dirty girl. Danielle screws a lot of boys in her high school and causes a lot of trouble by mouthing off to teachers, other kids and her single mother (Milla Jovovich). She is teamed up with chunky, dumpy and gay Clarke (Jeremy Dozier) for…
dvr this On DVD and Netflix Buck Angel is arguably the most fascinating porn star alive, and it is not only because he is a rough muscle daddy who is a transman who decided not to have bottom surgery. That is what makes him a curiosity to some and extremely hot to others. But he…
dvr this Amazon Instant Video for the first season BBC America, Friday, April 25, 8 p.m. BBC America, Saturday, April 26, 6 p.m. The second season of last year’s breakout sci-fi series premiered April 19, and the first season is finally available to stream. Get on it. This Canadian series is about a collection of…
dvr this FX, Tuesday, April 15, 10 p.m. The Coen Brothers’ 1996 film Fargo is one of my favorites, featuring Frances McDormand’s epically funny, pregnant sheriff and an insanely, off-kilter snow noir screenplay, both Oscar winners. I’m not sure how Noah Hawley convinced the Coens, but they allowed him to make a series based on…
