TV Reviews7.8/10
Lee Min-ho’s 2010 rom-com still works because it lets the lie collapse
A review of the 2010 MBC drama Personal Taste, starring Lee Min-ho and Son Ye-jin, and why its hanok and its central lie still hold up.
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Category: TV Reviews
Television we have watched and scored.
TV Reviews7.5/10
ZeroZeroZero: A Crime Drama About the Cocaine Supply Chain
ZeroZeroZero review: a crime drama about one cocaine shipment from Mexico to Italy, and the distance, delays and betrayals that consume everyone in its path.
TV Reviews10/10
Ren & Stimpy’s First Season Holds Up Better Than Its Reputation Suggests
The Ren & Stimpy Show hit Nickelodeon in 1991, ran five seasons, scored 10.0/10 on Rotten Tomatoes, and got John Kricfalusi fired in 1992.
TV Reviews7.7/10
The Animated El Chavo Kept the Slapstick but Lost the Live Audience
El Chavo: The Animated Series ran 136 episodes over seven seasons, from 2006 to 2014, with a full voice recast. Did animation add anything?
TV Reviews7.7/10
How The Suite Life on Deck Turned a Hotel Spin-Off Into a Cruise Ship Hit
The Suite Life on Deck took Zack and Cody from hotel to cruise ship in 2008, winning big ratings for Disney Channel across three seasons and 73 episodes.
TV Reviews7.7/10
The Disney Cartoon That Made the Playground a Political System
Recess ran on ABC from 1997 to 2001, following six fourth graders whose playground society mirrored the Cold War — a look back at what still holds up.
TV Reviews7.8/10
Craig McCracken Built a Mansion and Filled It with the Abandoned
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends premiered on Cartoon Network in 2004, ran six seasons, and won 12 awards. A look back at Craig McCracken's sharp premise.
TV Reviews8.2/10
Golden Boy: One Season, Six Episodes, and an 8.2 That Holds
Golden Boy, the 1995 anime comedy about Kintaro Oe, ran just six episodes and holds an 8.2 audience score. Here's why the short ride works.
TV Reviews7.2/10
Nip/Tuck: Ryan Murphy’s Surgery Drama Was Outrageous by Design, and Sometimes Great
Nip/Tuck, Ryan Murphy's FX series from 2003 to 2010, reviewed: the plastic surgery drama that became the template for a whole style of TV.
TV Reviews7.9/10
Doom at Your Service review: Park Bo-young and Seo In-guk’s hundred-day contract
Doom at Your Service review: Park Bo-young and Seo In-guk sign a hundred-day contract in tvN's 2021 fantasy romance about a dying woman and doom itself.
TV Reviews8.4/10
Tear Along the Dotted Line: A Cartoonist’s Grief, Six Episodes, One Orange Armadillo
Netflix's Tear Along the Dotted Line review: Zerocalcare's six-episode Italian animated series about grief, friendship and the armadillo in his head.
TV Reviews7.4/10
Miami Vice: Five Seasons of Style Over Story, and Mostly Better for It
Miami Vice ran five seasons on NBC, trading elaborate writing for music and style. How Don Johnson, Edward James Olmos and a Ferrari made TV history.