By: Bill Cushing – Aug. 201 Today’s TV landscape offers many choices for the discerning viewer. So, while it’s understandable that some shows get overlooked by many people, it does surprise me when an excellent show of high quality isn’t watched more. Netflix’s Master of None is one of those shows. I talk to a […]
The highly anticipated premiere of AMC’s ‘The Walking Dead’ aired on October 23rd to near record ratings. Fans of the show will know that this episode promised to resolve last April’s cliffhanger. That episode ended with our group of survivors being captured by Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and his followers, The Saviors. Negan was bent […]
By: Bill Cushing – April, 2016 Showtime’s newest drama, Billions, is a fastly-paced series that centers on the battle between charismatic hedge fund kingpin Bobby Axelrod (Damian Lewis) and “win at all costs” U.S. attorney Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti) who is obsessed with bringing down Axelrod and his firm, Axe Capital, for insider trading. […]
By: Bill Cushing – Jan. 2016 Now that 2015 has come and gone, it’s time to look back on a great year of TV. It was very hard narrowing it down, but here are my choices for the best shows of 2015. 10. Bates Motel (A&E)– A&E’s Bates Motel centers on the early years […]
By: Bill Cushing – September, 2015 I’m asked a lot if I have any recommendations of anything good to watch on TV. Any shows that may be under the radar or that are not very well known? This month I’m going to talk about just such a show. That show is called Rectify. Rectify just […]
By: Bill Cushing – March, 2105 Television spinoffs are risky projects. But when you are creating a spinoff to the greatest drama series of all time, it makes it even riskier. When I first heard of the plans of a Breaking Bad spinoff featuring Bob Odenkirk’s character, Saul Goodman, I was highly skeptical. I was […]
By: Bill Cushing – October, 2013 When Breaking Bad premiered in January, 2008 on AMC, there was very little fanfare. The reviews were good, even excellent to be sure, but the show barely made a blip in the ratings. The show’s main character of Walter White was played by Bryan Cranston, who previous claim to […]