Crime Shows

On Difficult Women and Wanting More

Megan Boone, of ‘The Blacklist,’ speaks out about women in film.

Roxane Gay dedicated Difficult Women, her most recent short story collection, to “difficult women, who should be celebrated for their…

‘I’ll Bring the Coffee and the Donuts’

On the return of ‘Twin Peaks.’

On Sunday night, Twin Peaks returned to TV after almost twenty-six years off air. The timing was perfect, which the show alluded to in the first few moments of the premiere, when they…

A Trivia Night Ends in Bloodshed

On HBO’s ‘Big Little Lies.’

“Never had a trivia night end in bloodshed before,” spoken by a tertiary character, is such a perfect summary of the first episode of Big Little Lies. The new HBO series, a seven hour movie…

A Good Investment

On ABC’s new drama ‘Conviction.’

ABC’s Conviction premiered last week, as a sort of Monday night cousin to the network’s golden goose, Shondaland. Hayley Atwell, the title character of the recently cancelled Marvel’s Agent Carter, stars as Hayes…

You Have a Good Heart, John Munch

Happy (slightly belated) birthday, Richard Belzer.

Richard Belzer turned seventy-two this past Thursday, adding another year to his over four decade long career in film and television. Belzer’s most notable…

The Antiheroine and Her Heart

In which Marvel takes on a dark and brilliant kind of superhero in ‘Jessica Jones.’

“Humanity sucks and they don’t deserve saving,” says Jessica Jones, the namesake of one of Netflix’s most recent…

‘In the End, We’re All Just Passing Through’

On the ‘Law & Order: SVU’ season finale.

Law & Order: SVU finished up its seventeenth season with a series rarity: the death of one of their own. Other than the late ADA Sonya Paxton (murdered in…

‘The X-Files,’ Regardless

One Monday in early February, someone asked me where I was when I learned that The X-Files would be making a return to TV. This caught me off guard, despite the fact that we were, in fact, watching one of the new episodes at the time. It wasn’t that I didn’t have an answer (I’d just…