Resurrected: Season 5 brings new life to ‘The Walking Dead’
The Walking Dead is a show that works best when the characters are on the move, and there is a clear objective. So far, season five has given us both.
Laughs tracked: Fall TV sitcom roundup
With the fall television season well underway, it’s time to pick some of this year’s winners and losers. Here are my quick-hit reviews of five of this fall’s new sitcoms.
All right! — ‘Bob’s Burgers’ is still a treat
The animated sitcom has long inhabited a categorical limbo with American television audiences. Many will easily dismiss all cartoons as inherently childish. Such viewers are seemingly unable to suspend their disbelief that animation can be for grownups, too.
Identity crisis: Can ‘Gotham’ fly without Batman?
Two episodes in, and it’s still unclear exactly what Fox’s Gotham wants to be. A Batman prequel? A police procedural set in a comic book universe? A gritty character drama? Ultimately, it’s all those things, without doing any one of them particularly well.
Rough sketches: What’s up with ‘Saturday Night Live’?
By JIM SABATASO | STAFF [A version of this review appears in the Oct. 2, 2014, edition of the Rutland Reader.] The party is going strong. The beer is flowing. Games are playing. The din of rowdy high school chatter swells. Suddenly, a hush falls over the room as attention drifts toward the TV. Laughter…
The Plaid Crew 