Tonight’s special is all about the show’s Big Red Chair. If you’ve seen this show, you know how much fun it is. If not, picture this: It’s an end-of-show element in which audience members climb into a Big Red Chair and tell a story to Graham and his guests. If they like it, the guest walks. If not, Graham or a guest pulls a lever, and the guest is flipped.

2018

Mar

FREEFORM'S 'SIREN' IS A FRIGHT-FILLED MERMAID TALE By David Hinckley

Hide the children if you decide to watch Freeform’s new horror series Siren, which wouldn’t be a bad decision...

2018

Mar

THE BIG BANG THEORY By David Bianculli

Tonight’s episode is titled “The Gates Excitation,” and makes room for what, on this show, may be the ultimate guest star: billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. Gates appears as himself, as an uber-geek among geeks, even though his entry into the Big Bang group is made through the most unlikely of connections: Penny.

2018

Mar

GOTHAM By David Bianculli

This series, this season, has gotten noticeably darker, in both of the overall tone and in the amount of blood and violence included on screen. Two weeks in a row now, characters have grabbed heavy hammers and smashed the hand of other characters – and last week, Sofia Falcone (Crystal Reed) ended her reign of terror in Gotham by shooting her former lover, Jim Gordon, several times, before being shot herself by another of Gordon’s exes, Morena Baccarin’s Lee. Gordon survived; S

2018

Mar

YOUNG SHELDON By David Bianculli

By George, here’s a delightful guest appearance: In this new episode, Jason Alexander from Seinfeld guest stars as Sheldon’s drama teacher, who gives him some new confidence and direction after Sheldon loses at the science fair.

2018

Mar

ATLANTA By David Bianculli

Remember how Seinfeld used to get so much acclaim for being a show about “nothing”? Well, tonight Atlanta continues the tradition, by building an entire episode around a visit to the barber shop. Dramatically, though, that makes room for the unkindest cut of all…