As Justified comes to a close, we look back on 10 episodes that made an Elmore Leonard adaptation into one of TV's best dramas of the last half-decade.
Tonight on FX you can catch the premieres of two very different shows about deprecating comics. One is Louie, returning for its fifth season, a rough gem made brilliant by the humor and empathy creator/star Louis C. K. can generate by examining his life with as much specificity as vulnerability. Before Louie is the series premiere for The Comedians, which tries to make you laugh using the same kind of faux humility you expect out of a Comedy Central roast. “Look at how cool I am with sending up my celebrity persona!” The Comedians screams loudly through its premiere, though rarely at a frequency that will get your funny bone to vibrate much.
While one Jennings tries to get a handle on the new status quo, others confront old questions of fidelity in a quite and complex hour of The Americans.
Game of Thrones opens its fifth season by laying a lot of groundwork for the future, but the wait looks to be well worth it for viewers and readers alike.
Silicon Valley may have lost some momentum along with one of its stars, but Season 2 makes for enjoyable watching while the show works out the new kinks.
Returning to its original time and place after a lengthy hiatus, Starz’s Outlander comes back to TV this Saturday, looking ready and raring to finish off its first season as confidently as it began. A popular book series but an unknown quantity as a show, Outlander’s humble 2014 beginnings gave way to a bona fide hit for the network, with the final episode before the break doubling viewership from the pilot. Now that a receptive audience is practically a given, the only question left is whether the show’s momentum will carry forward after a six month pause.
