Category: Love It Or Leave It? Reviews

Love It Or Leave It? (Bridge and Tunnel)

Bridge and Tunnel
Love It Or Leave It?
January 24, 2021

When you tell me Edward Burns has a new anything – movie, TV show, brand of potato chip – you have my curiosity. When you tell me it’s an Ed Burns joint steeped in nostalgia for Long Island in 1980, well then now you have my attention.

This writer-director-actor triple threat is bringing us back to a simpler time, far from the current woes of the moment in an effort to make us smile with Bridge and Tunnel, airing now on Epix. To Gen X-ers, 1980 is an oft-romanticized time in our (not so) recent history, far from our overly complicated, technology laden present. It’s a time that harkens back to a time where your plans were made on the front stoop with your boom box cranking out some punk or new wave music. 

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TV Review: Amazon Prime’s Tales From The Loop

Tales From the Loop - Amazon Prime
Tales From the Loop – Amazon Prime. Copyright 2020.

Amazon Prime deliberately chooses its content and licenses. Rather than fling a thousand movies and series into its viewing audience’s devices, Amazon takes a more methodical approach.  Whether it’s award-winning writing and acting like The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel or big-budget action like Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, an Amazon Prime series tends toward high-quality, high production value work. Its adaptation of Tales From The Loop fits right into that niche – but that doesn’t mean the show is for everyone.

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TV Recap: Treadstone – Love It Or Leave It?

Treadstone
Love It Or Leave It? Review
October 15, 2019

Straight out of the world of Jason Bourne comes the new television spy thriller, Treadstone!

From prolific television creator, producer and writer, Tim Kring (Heroes; Touch), Treadstone takes us inside the CIA’s highly secretive black ops program, Operation Treadstone. Fans of the movie franchise, and the Robert Ludlum books upon which they’re based, will know Treadstone as a morally questionable organization focused on (deadly) results and human manipulation. The question is, will this translate to good TV?

Read on for our thoughts on Treadstone and whether we think you should Love It Or Leave It!

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TV Recap: Bluff City Law – Love It Or Leave It? (Spoiler Free)

Bluff City Law
Love It Or Leave It? Review
September 10, 2019

On Monday, September 23, 2019, NBC will kick off its the 2019-20 television season with the premiere of its newest legal drama, Bluff City Law.

From creator and writer, Dean Georgaris (The Brave; The Meg), Bluff City Law seamlessly blends two disparate sub-genres of drama, family and legal, into an engaging hour of television. Georgaris, supported by a dynamic cast of explosive newcomers and one heavyweight veteran, delivers the first sure fire hit of the Fall season.

Read on for our thoughts on Bluff City Law and whether we think you should Love It Or Leave It!

(Photo by: NBCUniversal)

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TV Recap: BH90210 – Love It Or Leave It? (Contains Spoilers)

BH90210
Love It or Leave It? Review
August 7, 2019

With the premiere of BH90210 tonight, America’s most famous zip code is back for an all new go-around. Before we get into this nostalgia-filled limited series, some background is necessary for you youngsters out there. Beverly Hills, 90210 premiered almost 29 years ago, on October 4, 1990. I was 12-years-old when the coolest kids from West Beverly High burst onto the scene and this show was everything.  We didn’t have Twitter, or any kind of social media at all (not even Facebook), so Friday mornings in the school yard and lunchtime in the cafeteria were devoted to rehashing the previous night’s latest drama amongst the Beverly Hills kids. Beverly Hills, 90210 ushered in a new kind of television, soapy nighttime dramas aimed at teens and America ate it up.

Beverly Hills, 90210 ran for 10 seasons, ending in May 2000, and those teenagers that watched every episode are now in their 40s, with families of their own, and the appetite for 1990’s nostalgia is running high. BH90210 seizes on this 90’s fever with an enthusiastic flourish. But, is it worth the time  to watch? Read on to see whether we Love It Or Leave It … BEWARE OF SPOILERS!!!

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TV Recap: Blood & Treasure – Love It Or Leave It? (Spoiler Free)

Blood & Treasure
Love It Or Leave It? Review
May 21, 2019

On Tuesday, May 21, 2019, CBS launched Blood & Treasure, a new, sexy action adventure series … otherwise known as the PERFECT antidote for the Summertime TV blues.

The thirteen-episode season was created for television by Matthew Federman (Limitless) and Stephen Scaia (Limitless), and stars Matt Barr (Valor; Sleepy Hollow) and Sofia Pernas (The Brave), with a supporting cast of Katia Winter (Hamilton; Sleepy Hollow), Antonio Cupo (La Llorona), James Callis (Castlevania; 12 Monkeys), Michael James Shaw (Limitless), Oded Fehr (The Blacklist; Covert Affairs), and Mark Gagliardi (Star vs. the Forces of Evil).

Read on for our thoughts on the show and whether we think you should Love It Or Leave It!

Photo: Kharen Hill / CBS

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TV Recap: NOS4A2 – Love It Or Leave It?

NOS4A2
Love It Or Leave It? Review
May 31, 2019

On Sunday, June 2, 2019, AMC launches its newest series, NOS4A2, a (different kind of) vampire horror genre show, based on the Joe Hill novel of the same name.

The ten-episode series was adapted for television by Jami O’Brien (Fear the Walking Dead; Hell on Wheels), who also acts as the showrunner (and is an executive producer, as well), and stars Ashleigh Cummings (The Goldfinch) and Zachary Quinto (Star Trek; American Horror Story).  The supporting cast includes Jahkara “JJ” Smith, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Virginia Kull, Jamie Neumann, and Darby Camp.

Read on for our thoughts on the show and whether we think you should Love It Or Leave It!

Ashleigh Cummings as Vic McQueen, Zachary Quinto as Charlie Manx – NOS4A2 _ Season 1, Key Art – Photo Credit: AMC

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TV Recap: Catch-22 – Love It Or Leave It?

Catch-22
Love It Or Leave It? Review
May 17, 2019

On May 17, 2019, Hulu released its newest limited series, the six episode Catch-22. Based on Joseph Heller’s 1961 novel of the same name, Catch-22 is a dark satire of military bureaucracy and the absurdity of war. Filled with laugh out loud moments that turn on a dime into gut wrenching, deeply affecting emotional moments (complete with blood, guts, and death), Catch-22 captures much of the tone and spirit of Heller’s writing. Bolstered by some of the most gorgeous cinematography I’ve ever seen on TV as well as several Emmy award-worthy, outstanding supporting acting performances, Catch-22 is an easy pick to binge watch.

(Photo by: Philippe Antonello/Hulu)

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TV Recap: Good Omens – Love It Or Leave It?

Good Omens
Love It Or Leave It? Review
May 21, 2019

On May 31, 2019, Amazon Prime releases its newest streaming series, Good Omens. The six episode, limited series is based on Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, the 1990 novel by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.

Sadly, Pratchett passed away in 2015 but we have Gaiman keeping a close watch on the beloved shared work, penning the screenplay for all six episodes and serving as showrunner. Behind the camera, popular British television director, Douglas Mackinnon (Doctor Who, Knightfall, Outlander), directed all six episodes. The large ensemble cast is led by David Tennant and Michael Sheen, with countless celebrities pitching in recurring and regular roles, including Jon Hamm, Michael McKean, Miranda Richardson, Adria Arjona, Brian Cox, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sam Taylor Buck, Jack Whitehall, and Nick Offerman. Oh, and Frances McDormand is the Voice of God! 

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TV Recap: Flack – Love It Or Leave It?

Flack
Love It Or Leave It? Review
February 21, 2019

“flack”
noun
\ˈflak\
Definition: one who provides publicity; a press agent. “She’s a public relations flack.”

Tonight, POP, the channel best known for airing Schitt’s Creek, premiered Flack, a brand new British dramedy. It’s the kind of show that people are going to stop and take notice. Flack, which will have six hour long episodes in its Freshman season, was created by Oliver Lansley (Whites; FM) and stars Anna Paquin (True Blood), Sophie Okonedo (Hotel Rwanda), Genevieve Angelson (Good Girls Revolt), Lydia Wilson (Black Mirror), Arinzé Kene (Informer), Rebecca Benson (Game of Thrones), Marc Warren (Safe), and Rufus Jones (W1A).

Photo: POP

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