The Small Screen Diaries: 10/31/26

Hope you had a lovely Halloween! I obviously tried to embrace the holiday, which is why I didn’t publish any reviews yesterday. I’m sure Hollywood has come to a standstill as a result. I’ll try to knock some out today. I did watch a few television shows, but not too many, since the focus was more on Halloween. However, before getting into my rankings, I figured I’d let you know about some of the shows returning next week that you may or may not be interested in, because there’s quite a bit happening. NBC is bringing back St. Denis Medical … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 10/31/26

The Small Screen Diaries: 10/24/26

Kicking off the Small Screen Diaries for the day is a look ahead at the week, and there are some interesting things happening. Probably the biggest is Dexter: Resurrection returning to Paramount+ on Friday. Aside from that, Hulu has a new reality show called The Mob arriving Monday, featuring a decent slate of celebrities and hosted by Parker Posey. Bill Murray is doing a show about golf courses in Ireland for Paramount+, while Netflix has a new docuseries about Matthew Perry arriving Tuesday. Apple TV has a new Liev Schreiber series, Nocturne, starting Friday. And while it technically isn’t in … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 10/24/26

The Small Screen Diaries: 10/16/26

Kicking off the Small Screen Diaries for today, in a pretty easy first-place finish, is East of Eden, which is on Netflix with audio description from Descriptive Video Works, written by Liz Gutman and narrated by Paul Hoffman. The series has some really wonderful audio description attached to it, but this was also probably my favorite episode in general. I don’t love everything that Cathy ends up doing as a character, but Florence Pugh is so terrific in the role that she makes up for a lot of it. This is very much a series where you’re watching the antagonist … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 10/16/26

The Small Screen diaries: 10/10/26

On Sundays, I like to kick off the Small Screen Diaries with a look ahead at the week in television, highlighting some shows that might be of interest to you. These aren’t necessarily shows I’m going to tackle all at once, because, my God, am I watching a lot of random television programs. But there’s plenty coming this week, including ABC bringing back its Thursday night lineup of 9-1-1, 9-1-1: Nashville, and Grey’s Anatomy. FX has the second season of Ethan Hawke’s The Lowdown arriving Wednesday, while the fourth season of Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butt-Head lands on Comedy Central, … Continue reading The Small Screen diaries: 10/10/26

The Small Screen Diaries: 10/02/26

Kicking off today’s Small Screen Diaries is a brand new show, something that I heard through the grapevine from critics was going to be excellent, and that is the new HBO Max drama War, starring Dominic West and Sienna Miller. This definitely piqued my interest, although I think the title may be a little soft and not necessarily descriptive of what the show is actually about. We’ll see with later episodes if they end up justifying the title. Sort of like how Succession told you exactly what that show was about, War seems to perhaps go a little bit overboard, … Continue reading The Small Screen Diaries: 10/02/26