Josh Reviews The Deuce: Season Three
You didn’t watch The Deuce? Even though it was the latest show masterminded by David Simon, who created The Wire? Look, I get it. A TV show about the porn business in New York City in the seventies and eighties was a tough sell for many people. I wasn’t even sure,
Catching Up on 2017: Josh Reviews The Deuce Season One
The Deuce is the latest television masterpiece from David Simon (The Wire, Treme, Show Me a Hero) and George Pelicanos (novelist and a key writer on both The Wire and Treme), set primarily around Times Square in the seventies, chronicling the legalization and growth of the porn indust
Josh’s Favorite Episodes of TV of 2017 — Part Four!
Welcome back! We’re about to enter the TOP TEN of my list of My Favorite Episodes of TV of 2017! Click here for part one, click here for part two, and click here for part three. And now, onward…! 10. Silicon Valley: “Terms of Service” (season four, episode
The Top Fifteen Episodes of TV in 2015 — Part One!
Last week I listed by Top Twenty Movies of 2015. (Click here for part one of my list, numbers twenty through sixteen. Click here for part two of my list, numbers fifteen through eleven. Click here for part three of my list, numbers ten through six. Click here for part four of
Josh Reviews Show Me A Hero
Is there a greater master of television working today than David Simon? Had he never done anything else of consequence after the triumph that was The Wire (and seriously, if anyone reading these words has never watched that show, you really need to drop everything and remedy that im
Josh Reviews Treme Season 3
I find Treme to be so much better than pretty much everything else on television these days, so it was with great sadness that I watched the final episode of Treme’s ten-episode third season. (The show will apparently be coming back some-time next year with a five-episode four
“Accentuate the Positive” — Treme Returns!
It’s been a long wait since last summer, but one of my favorite series from 2010 finally returned with new episodes this past Sunday night — David Simon (The Wire) and Eric Overmyer’s Treme! Season two picks up about six or seven months after the events of the seaso
Down in the Treme…
In addition to watching the first two new episodes of Futurama last week, I had a chance to catch (a few weeks late) the final two episodes of Treme, the magnificent new HBO series by the fine folks behind The Wire (A.K.A. The greatest television series ever created). When I wrote abo
Josh Reviews the Premiere Episode of Treme
Can we all just agree that The Wire is the greatest television show ever made? Anyone who has seen The Wire surely must agree with that (admittedly bold) statement. As for the rest of you — what are you waiting for?? (Until you’ve seen this masterpiece, I’m reall
“And the two grand ladies made their escape together” — Josh’s Favorite TV Series Finales, Part II!
The great Battlestar Galactica saga comes to an end, tomorrow. I am trying to be brave! In preparation, I have been thinking about some of my favorite series finales. Click here to see numbers 10-6. 5. Arrested Development — “Development, Arrested” — Cu