Poker Face Season 2 continues Rian Johnson's Peacock mystery series, a loving throwback to the case-of-the-week detective shows of the 1970s. Natasha Lyonne returns as Charlie Cale, the wisecracking drifter with an uncanny, infallible knack for telling when someone is lying, a gift that keeps dragging her into murder after murder as she travels across America.
Back on the road in her battered Plymouth Barracuda, Charlie stumbles into a fresh set of standalone whodunits, each stocked with a rotating roster of guest stars. Season 2's lineup is loaded, featuring the likes of Cynthia Erivo, Awkwafina, Katie Holmes, Kumail Nanjiani, Giancarlo Esposito, John Mulaney and Melanie Lynskey, with the series' signature howcatchem structure showing the crime before Charlie unravels it.
The second season drew generally positive reviews, with critics again crediting Lyonne's magnetic lead performance and the show's inventive, star-studded standalone episodes, even as some felt the formula had grown familiar. Streaming on Peacock.
Television currently suffers a serious adolescent crush on New Jersey, happily showcasing its housewives, manicurists, unemployed party animals, and now its history of slick, sophisticated organized crime. "Boardwalk Empire," adapted from the bestseller with the same name, shows Atlantic City's colorful jazz age history, paying fierce attention to realistic details and historical accuracy. "Boardwalk Empire" takes the Sunday night timeslot usually reserved for "True Blood" while the vampires go on hiatus, and with skilled assistance from Martin Scorsese, it so completely rivets its audience that they cannot remember what they used to watch after "60 Minutes." Like a complicated, sophisticated Victorian novel, "Boardwalk Empire" takes two episodes to set the stage and establish its historical context; but once the bootleggers, gangsters, and corrupt politicians get their machinery greased-up and going, eager audiences stay tuned. The New York Times effectively summarizes, "'Boardwalk Empire' is a well conceived, beautifully made series that has every reason to be great. Who doesn't want to watch rum runners and gangsters on HBO?" Mtv and E! will break-up with Jersey, and they will not "still be just friends" when new seasons roll around; but viewers can look forward to HBO's going steady with "Boardwalk Empire" until the vampires come home.
You could think of "Pretty Little Liars" TV show as "Gossip Girl" goes to the suburbs, except that the vapid world of Park Avenue apartments is, frankly, really boring compared to Rosewood, Pennsylvania. Based on a series of young adult novels by the same name, "Pretty Little Liars" shows the genuinely dramatic, morally-challenged lives of four teen-age girls, a cliquish little group"”Hannah, Aria, Emily, and Spencer. They could be renegades from the American Girls doll collection, except that they are frighteningly rich and more-than-tragically flawed. Hannah, for example, shoplifts, inviting her mother to complain, "I buy you everything you need to be popular," and leaving everyone to assume that's the last word on the subject. Conscience lives somewhere well beyond the city limits, exacting big penalties from those who transgress. As the show opens, Ali, leader and style-setter of the group, disappears a la "Blair Witch." The real action begins, though, three years after Ali's mysterious disappearance, when the "Pretty Little Liars" begin receiving text messages that very strongly suggest someone is watching them"”especially in their most compromising moments. Adding piquancy and spice to the digital displays, the sender signs them cryptically "A."
Sean Walker plans to propose to his girlfriend Leila while they luxuriate on a Caribbean cruise. Instead, Sean suffers severe cruise interruption when Leila mysteriously disappears, and his desperate search for her leads him into a tangled web of inter-terrestrial intrigue. Equally desperate, disoriented, and terrified, Leila is trapped in an undisclosed location. "The Event" TV show fills-in the back-story as the current drama unfolds: As World War II drew to a close, an alien craft crashed in Alaska; government scientists determined the passengers were 99% identical to humans, but that radical 1% difference has the capacity to wreak havoc on the American population, among whom several of the survivors have been hiding and thriving. The CIA, naturally, has kept this information super-top-secret until technology beyond current human capacity foils an assassination attempt on President Elias Martinez. Which of these historic developments officially qualifies as "The Event" TV series remain approximately as uncertain as the reasons why Sean and Leila must forego serious tanning for all of this intrigue.
In 2010, if you are not filming a reality show in New Jersey, then you really are just experimenting in the reality gene. Obviously, New Jersey has special purchase on "real" America: New Jersey housewives owned Bravo, and New Jersey skanks owned Mtv, so E! naturally followed suit with "Jerseylicious" TV show, a marginally real depiction of life in "Gatsby," a strip-mall hair salon. Of course, all of the characters on "Jerseylicious" bear a frightening resemblance to Snooki, but, as the promos are quick to emphasize, "the tans are darker and the teases are higher." On "Jerseylicious", the stylists battle one another for clients and boyfriends"”not in any organized competition, of course, but in that snarky and insidious way that apparently happens as a result of breathing too much Aqua-Net and nail lacquer. The New York Times insightfully notes, "The best-looking person among the workers or the customers is Anthony, the only male member of the staff. There are trumped-up rivalries and domestic tensions galore, none very convincing."
The Division is a secret organization and is the center for a new television series called Nikita. With story ideas taken from a French film titled Nikita and a TV series that ran back in 1997, La Femme Nikita, this time around we find thaqt assassins, spies, and troublemakers abound and it's the job of those who train as recruits at the Division who will fight to win. But it appears that the organization has gone rogue and many of the young recruits have troubled pasts. Nikita escapes and vows to get to the root of problems within the Division. Characters who were on the 1997 version, La Femme Nikita, are back in this version including Nikita who is played by Maggie Q otherwise known as Margaret Quigley (Balls of Fury, Deception), Michael played by Shane West (ER, Echelon Conspiracy), and Alex Udinov (Lyndsy Fonseca from How I Met Your Mother, Desperate Housewives) all young fresh faces with great futures ahead. Nikita is the central protagonist and herself an assassin and former spy familiar with dealing with corruption. She needs a top notch crew to back her up and finds a family atmosphere in the Division.
Gossip Girl TV show is a primetime drama based on the bestselling book series written by Cecily von Ziegesar. It takes place in New York City and is about a group of highly privileged teenagers attending a very prestigious private school. It all begins with Blair and Serena, rivals that use to be best friends. Up until now, Blair hasn't really had to deal with Serena, but now that she's back, Blair isn't necessarily always on top. Between the back stabbing and their scandalous love lives these teens are full of drama. Include in the mix of things is Blair's boyfriend Nate and his best friend Dan who is also Serena's on again off again boyfriend. Even the rich have problems and Gossip Girl TV show demonstrates that as well as awful teenage behavior at its worst.
Clark Kent grew up in Smallville and before he became Superman he was a normal average kid who just happened to discover his hidden talents which were super powers. The DC Comic character we all grew up with, Superman, has been portrayed as a super powerful entity from the planet Krypton who, after landing on earth, grew up in the Midwest as a normal boy and went on to work as a reporter for the Daily Planet. Early Clark Kent is seen as an average in school, very handsome boy who has friends and plays pranks just like every other boy in Kansas. Tom Welling (Cheaper By The Dozen, The Fog) plays Clark Kent at a period in his life where he is just realizing his magical gifts and super powers. Based on the comic book character, Clark is eager to show his adopted parents how useful he can be in a wide variety of ways and this brings about many humorous situations on the show. This TV version of the ever popular comic book series has been extremely successful and highly entertaining.
Doctor Who TV Show is a BBC science fiction program which is revolving around a man referred to as "˜the Doctor' who claims to travel to space in what appears to be a blue 1950s police cruiser. However "˜the Doctor' is an alien time traveler that does what no one else has...He goes into outer space to investigate problems and battle mysterious monsters to undo any wrong that has been done. Doctor Who TV Show is the longest running program in the history of the world, because the story keeps on going, even if it is being redone by someone else.
Girls Next Door TV Show is about three beautiful blondes, girlfriends of Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner. Viewers will get to go through the gates and take a look behind closed doors of the famous mansion. Life inside the mansion will be seen as the three girls; Holly Madison, Bridget Marquardt and Kendra Wilkinson see it. Also, many other celebrities will appear as guests of the mansion for any of the many parties Hugh Hefner is known for throwing. While some may call it a dream, Hugh calls it reality, so come watch the Girls Next Door TV Show to see how much fun they really do have.
The Middle TV Show is a comedy about the lives a middle class family from the suburbs of the Midwest from the point of view of the mother. Frankie is a high strung, but committed mother and wife who works part time while volunteering at her children's school. Her husband Mike is the opposite; laid back and always at work all the time, but supports Frankie in raising their three children. Their son Axl is the oldest and a typical high school teenager; rude, lazy and a slob. Sue is their middle child and although labelled a nerd by everyone in her junior high, she is desperately trying to fit in and avoid torment from her older brother. Then there is the baby of the family, Brick, he is an academic genius but drastically falls short in the area of social skills and suffers from all kinds of anxiety. Watch The Middle TV Show and get a laugh at how the Heck family gets through the day.
