City Weekly - True TV http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/articles.sec-8385-1-true-tv.html <![CDATA[Arrested Development, Save Me]]> By Bill Frost

Return/Season Premiere: TV critics are whining that Netflix wouldn’t make the revival of Arrested Development available for advance review—like you’re not going to watch it because Frank J. Farley of the Wichita Bugle ]]>
<![CDATA[The Office, Goodwin Games]]> By Bill Frost

Series Finale: Hang in there—the longest goodbye on television is almost over. Like most of you, The Only TV Column That Matters™ has stuck with The Office because, even though it’s never recovered from the loss of Michael Scott ]]>
<![CDATA[Small Town Security, Bob Saget]]> By Bill Frost

Season Premiere: When it premiered in 2012, Small Town Security (a reality-show tag-along to Breaking Bad) looked like just more quirky redneck filler taking up space on an otherwise respectable cable network. ]]>
<![CDATA[Parks & Recreation, Maron]]> By Bill Frost

Season Finale: Yes, already—NBC has to get Parks & Recreation out of the way so the network can waste the rest of this month’s Thursdays saying goodbye to and eulogizing The Office, ]]>
<![CDATA[Hemlock Grove, Inside Amy Schumer]]> By Bill Frost

New Series: Says Netflix, original series House of Cards was a hit; says logic, the May 26 premiere of the new Arrested Development season will break the Interwebs. Between the two, there’s Hemlock Grove]]>
<![CDATA[Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell]]> By Bill Frost

Series Debut: If “real” TV reviewers wrote about Adult Swim shows, there would be reviews that start “If you think your job is hell, wait till you see this series!” ]]>
<![CDATA[Louis CK, Defiance]]> By Bill Frost

Stand-up Special: Sorry, you can’t download this one—not yet, anyway. Oh My God, Louis C.K.’s fifth stand-up special (recorded in February in Phoenix, one of the most humorless cities in ’Merica, ]]>
<![CDATA[Mad Men, Hannibal]]> By Bill Frost

Season Premiere: This year’s Off Limits list from Mad Men showrunner Matthew Weiner: Don’t tell “the year the season begins,” “the status of Don and Megan’s relationship,” “whether the agency has expanded to an additional floor,” ]]>
<![CDATA[Game of Thrones, Happy Endings]]> By Bill Frost

Season Premiere: Think you’re having a bad endless winter-spring? Wait till you see the opening scene of Game of Thrones’ Season 3 premiere, that’s all I’m sayin’. ]]>
<![CDATA[Revolution, Chupacabra vs. Alamo]]> By Bill Frost

Spring Premiere: This was a hit four months ago—anybody remember Revolution? That post-apocalyptic drama set in a future with no electricity, with a wannabe Katniss (Tracy Spiridakos) and a good-lookin’ rogue (Billy Burke)]]>
<![CDATA[Bates Motel, Splash]]> By Bill Frost

Series Debut: A modern-day “prequel” to the 1960 classic Psycho? A&E has entertained worse ideas for series, including sequel reality shows following the further adventures of Gene Simmons’ and Criss Angel’s ]]>
<![CDATA[Grimm, The Client List]]> By Bill Frost

Midseason Premiere: Along with the still-MIA Revolution, fantasy-drama Grimm is one of NBC’s few scripted hits, and yet it’s been off the air for over three months]]>
<![CDATA[Red Widow, Celeb Apprentice]]> By Bill Frost

When her weed-smuggling husband is executed for, oh, stealing a few millions bucks worth of cocaine from an international crime lord, a woman (Radha Mitchell) with buried Russian mob ties covertly takes on said crime lord to repay hubbie’s debt ]]>
<![CDATA[Burning Love 2, Celebrity Wife Swap]]> By Bill Frost

The sequel to 2012’s online hit Burning Love, the Bachelor spoof that was waaay too long coming, premiered on Valentine’s Day: Burning Love 2 centers on Burning Love’s “damaged goods,” Julie Gristlewhite ]]>
<![CDATA[Zero Hour, Freakshow]]> By Bill Frost

Series Debut: A conspiracy-mag publisher’s (Anthony Edwards, last seen on some show called ER) wife is kidnapped because her antique-clock shop contains an apocalyptic Nazi treasure map (Magazines? Clocks? Maps?]]>
<![CDATA[Community, The Walking Dead]]> By Bill Frost

Is it October 2012 already? Way back when this TV season began, NBC had the WTF? plan to dump cult comedy Community on Friday nights with cult anathema Whitney as a lead-in. ]]>
<![CDATA[30 Rock, Super Bowl XLVII]]> By Bill Frost

One-Hour Series Finale: The era of the Weird Comedy is over; look forward to more “broad” fare like The Neighbors and say goodbye to critical darlings like Ben & Kate (just canceled by Fox), Don’t Trust the B in Apt. 23 ]]>
<![CDATA[Spartacus, The Americans]]> By Bill Frost

Season Premiere: In the final chapter of Starz’s green-screen blood ’n’ boobs epic, Spartacus (Liam McIntyre) and his army of leather models are running roughshod over Rome, killing and/or screwing and/or yelling at everything in sight.]]>
<![CDATA[Archer, Legit, The Following]]> By Bill Frost

Season Premiere: After having gone missing for months, super spy Archer (H. Jon Benjamin) turns up with amnesia … and a sweet porn mustache. ]]>
<![CDATA[Banshee, Girls, Shameless]]> By Bill Frost

Series Debut: No, it’s not about an X-Men ginger; this action-drama from True Blood’s Alan Ball is set in Banshee, Penn.—Amish country (if Amish is the next TV wave, at least it’s a step up from rednecks). ]]>