Category Archives: TV Reviews

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving was first broadcast in 1973 and unlike the Christmas and Halloween specials that preceded it, it often gets overlooked, mainly because the special really doesn’t do much. Even that Flashbeagle episode had more going on in it. There’s no kids dancing. There’s no Great Pumpkin watchers. There’s no psycho stalking byContinue reading “‘Charlie Brown Thanksgiving’ Simple But More Thoughtful”

There’s no way to describe The Star Wars Holiday Special which was broadcast one time only on this date, Nov. 17, 1978 on CBS. It’s not great. But it’s not entirely deserving of its awful criticism. In fact, bootlegs of the special are considered prized collections among nerds everywhere. You can’t really call yourself aContinue reading “‘The Star Wars Holiday Special’ Is Something Else”

I’m only three episodes in the Hulu limited series Dopesick about the opioid crisis involving Purdue Pharma but it has problems that are only kept together by the performances of the ensemble cast. And that ensemble cast is also its illness. There are six stories interconnecting here jumping back and forth over many years overContinue reading “‘Dopesick’ Suffers From Similar Symptoms Of Docudramas, Hope It Gets Better Soon”

This post contains spoilers. The Hulu black comedy series Only Murders in the Building couldn’t have come at a better time as we were enthralled in the case of Gabby Petito, a blogger who went missing over the summer and then her body was found in Wyoming murdered by strangulation. As I’m writing this, theContinue reading “The Verdict For ‘Only Murders In The Building’”

Muppets Haunted Mansion on Disney-Plus is a nice, okay Halloween special but it does have some problems that does keep it from the highs of the Jim Henson era. I’m just going to get this out of the way right now, because it seems to be a lot of the criticism I’m seeing. Matt VogelContinue reading “‘Muppets Haunted Mansion’ Cute But Not Top Form”

Dug Days on Disney-Plus is a five-episode spinoff series of the movie Up that is a nice follow-up and a fitting unintentional tribune to the life of Ed Asner. There’s something about that scruffy little golden retriever Dug who was equipped with a voice collar and had an “Aw Shucks!” mentality that made him standContinue reading “‘Dug Days’ Funny, Cute Spinoff And Nice Swan Song For Ed Asner”

I don’t listen to many podcasts. I don’t listen to any true-crime podcasts even though I know they’re very popular among many people. True-crime, itself, is a genre that is so popular all the major networks have or had weekly shows devoted to it. It’s all over the cable TV and streaming services. The popularityContinue reading “‘One Murders In The Building’ Is To Die For”

Dr. Christopher Duntsch is the type of doctor who probably would give the infamous Dr. Josef Mengele chills. If there was ever a true-life mad doctor, it would be Duntsch. But most movies or TV shows about mad doctors often portray them as vain physicians trying to make new headways in healthcare and medicine. They’reContinue reading “‘Dr. Death’ A Full Examination Of Narcissism”