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Major Crimes renews for Season 3, nails summer finale
By C.J. Bunce Breathtaking. Gut-wrenching. This week’s summer season finale of Major Crimes should underscore for any naysayers TNT’s decision last week to renew the series for a third season....
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It’s 2014!!! Now what?
Happy New Year!!! So what do we do now? How about a look at the start dates for our favorite TV shows? Many are already in progress, like Almost Human, Arrow, Dracula, Grimm, Major Crimes, The...
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The Big Finale–looking at the end of a series
It always pays to be wary of grandiose statements and definitive pronouncements. When I first watched Forrest Gump in the theater, one-third of the way through the movie it occurred to me I might be...
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The tenth year of the Major Crimes team begins tonight on TNT
The tenth season of the Major Crimes team that began with seven years of The Closer, led by Kyra Sedgwick’s Brenda Lee Johnson, and continued with two seasons of Major Crimes under Mary McDonnell’s...
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Warner Bros. releases Major Crimes Season Two on DVD
Review by C.J. Bunce If you’re keeping up with the third season of Major Crimes on TNT, you’ll have seen last night’s episode, “Frozen Assets.” Set up with a preposterous plot–a multi-millionaire who...
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Prediction time: “S.O.B.”–a new TNT Major Crimes spinoff
If you aren’t watching this season of Major Crimes, last night you likely missed the best episode of television this year, which made us do a double take as to whether this was a midseason finale...
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Major Crimes returns tomorrow night on TNT
When we last left the Los Angeles Major Crimes division at the mid-season break in August, the team was busy closing cases in their own signature style of action-filled drama. In its third season,...
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borg.com’s Best TV of 2014
We love good TV. Nothing is better than looking forward each week to a show you can trust to have great writing and great acting. We’ve made our way through several series again this year, trying...
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Agent Carter and other second chances at the spotlight
If you like modern noir or pulp throwback stories, as we did with last year’s The X-Files: Year Zero comic book series, ABC’s new Marvel Universe series Agent Carter is pretty much going to be a sure...
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Major Crimes returns tonight to begin its fourth season
It’s pretty rare–we’ve been able to watch the goings on at the LAPD of Lt. Provenza (G.W. Bailey), Lt. Flynn (Tony Denison), Lt. Tao (Michael Paul Chan), Assistant Chief Taylor (Robert Gossett),...
View ArticleThe Closer returns strong in its final season opener (thank yew, Brenda Lee!)
Review by Elizabeth C. Bunce For the past 6 seasons TNT’s The Closer has consistently been one of the strongest dramas in Prime Time. With its inexplicable mix of graphic violence, quirky and lovable...
View ArticleFirst look–TNT’s new series, Major Crimes
By Elizabeth C. Bunce It’s official! Finally. After months of speculation, TNT has now begun earnest advertising for The Closer’s spinoff series, Major Crimes. And none too soon–with things heating...
View ArticleTNT bids farewell to The Closer and ushers in new era with Major Crimes
Review by Elizabeth C. Bunce Monday night, TNT closed the books on one of the most popular series in its history, and began a new chapter that seems well poised to carry on the tradition of great...
View ArticleMajor Crimes, Season One–the rare case of the successful spinoff
Reviewed by C.J. Bunce The first season of Major Crimes was better than the last season of The Closer. It even had individual episodes that out-performed several episodes of the entire run of The...
View ArticleThe Best of 2012–The Hobbit, Argo, and Arrow lead off our list
Merry Christmas! It’s the end of December and another year is winding down. Everywhere you turn someone is talking about the Best of 2012, so here we offer our take, resulting from absorbing more...
View ArticleMajor Crimes returns next week with Season 1 on DVD and premiere of Season 2
TNT’s first season of Major Crimes was the surprise win of 2012. It accomplished something very rare, taking a series–The Closer–that might otherwise have wound down after seven seasons, and used a...
View ArticleCan Bosch: Legacy’s second season save the Bosch legacy?
Review by C.J. Bunce Dragnet, Adam-12, The Rockford Files, The Closer, Major Crimes… Bosch was only the latest in a long string of L.A. cop shows. An adaptation of Michael Connelly’s character LAPD...
View ArticleBosch: Legacy–Ninth season of Harry & Co. delivers surprises and satisfaction
Review by C.J. Bunce Good choices and surprises. Bosch: Legacy, the second season of the series spinning out of seven seasons of Amazon Studios’ Bosch, was nothing like what anyone could have...
View ArticleNow streaming–Find a taut UK thriller in BritBox series Protection
Review by C.J. Bunce From Glitch and Requiem writer Kris Mrksa comes an atypical British police story, Protection. What looks at first like it’s going to be a UK take on In Plain Sight, which detailed...
View ArticleBosch: Legacy–Final season trailer has it all
Seven seasons of Bosch and two more seasons of Bosch: Legacy delivered the best kind of satisfying cop stories–with the biggest factor being rewatchability. A continuation of television’s police...
View ArticleBosch: Legacy–Tenth season of Harry & Co. delivers a disappointing finish
Review by C.J. Bunce For all of the good choices and surprises of last season’s Bosch: Legacy, the third season of the series spinning out of seven seasons of Amazon Studios’ Bosch has arrived as a...
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