Shameless dvr this Showtime, Sunday, Jan. 12, 9 p.m. The name of the show says it all. This struggling Chicago family will do just about anything to get by. The drunken sociopathic dad (William H. Macy) will literally do anything, while his kids (the resplendent Emmy Rossum as de facto mom Fiona, Jeremy Allen White…
Treme dvr this HBO, Sunday Dec. 1, 9 p.m. The combination soap opera and ethnographic film about New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina is frustrating and amazing and weird and not like anything else on TV. A sprawling cast of characters, from a muckraking lawyer to a struggling chef, from a bar owner with…
Lili Taylor, Mackenzie Crook, Michael Irby, Karl Urban, Michael Ealy and Minka Kelly in Almost Human dvr this: Fox, Sunday, Nov. 17, 8 p.m. Possibly, the most anticipated new show of the fall is about a future in which every Los Angeles police officer is teamed up with an android. Detective John Kennex (Star Trek’s…
dvr this Among the many wonders of cable is that we get BBC America, which runs the best of British television for the amusement of Americans. I adore watching The Graham Norton Show, which is the U.K. version of Ellen, Leno, and Letterman combined into one. Last week, for instance, he had Chris Hemsworth, Natalie…
dvr this ABC, Sundays, 9 p.m. I stopped watching Revenge, ABC’s horribly silly retribution soap opera, last year when I realized the chief avenger Emily (Emily VanCamp) was rather inconsistent with her avenging. I kept wondering why she hadn’t been able to take out her enemies the Graysons in the first few episodes. But then…
dvr this FX, Wednesdays, 10 p.m. I’m one of the few people who greatly disliked the first two seasons of American Horror Story. I found them confusing, sadistic and misogynistic, like a supernatural version of Ryan Murphy’s seminal series Nip/Tuck. However, I’m rather excited about the new season, which Murphy promises to be less cruel…
DVR This: AMC, Available on Amazon.com and ITunes While a bunch of people stopped watching The Killing – the moody, slow and rainy series about murder detectives in Seattle – after they failed to reveal who killed Rose Larsen at the end of season 1, I suggest you return, either on TV or DVD. This…
dvr this Turner Classic Movies, Sunday, Aug. 18, 6 a.m. Arguably the greatest film musical ever made, West Side Story won 10 Oscars and is still an astonishing site to behold. Mostly this is because of Robert Wise’s and Jerome Robbins’ direction, which took a very stagey show and made it believable on the streets…
dvr this Turner Classic Movies, Tuesday, August 13, 1:15am TCM has The Hunger listed as a “horror” film, but it’s not. The movie is somewhat suspenseful, but it’s certainly not scary. It just happens to be about vampires. Really, really, really sexy vampires. Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie are a centuries-old vampire couple until Deneuve…
dvr this OK, so you don’t really record Orange is the New Black, but watching it on instant Netflix is basically the same idea. However you describe it, you should be watching it. Based on Piper Kerman’s memoir of the same name, Orange is the story of a blonde yuppie who is sent to prison…
