by Damian Holbrook
Cheers to Tell Me a Story
for booking such a primo cast. From affable James Wolk finally playing dark opposite a refreshingly un-glam (and so good!) Paul Wesley (pictured) to Kim Cattrall flipping the script on her sassy Sex and the City persona as a compassionate grandmother, CBS All Access’s grim twist on classic fairy tales is a treat you should already be addicted to. End of story.
Jeers to Holiday-Movie Overload.
It’s not that we don’t love the sleigh full of seasonal flicks from the Hallmark Channel, Lifetime, Freeform and Netflix. It’s just that there are so many now, we’ve lost track of which One Tree Hill vet is visiting her quaint hometown and how many soap-opera alums are stranded at snowy country inns.
Jeers to The Walking Dead
for losing its way. With the exit of Andrew Lincoln , AMC’s once-killer zombie drama no longer has Rick Grimes’s central drive to salvage humanity at the heart of the horror, leaving fans with too many newish characters to sort through and very little reason to care about them.
Cheers to Superstore
for employing Eden Sher. The Middle star popped in to the NBC comedy’s November 8 episode as a hilariously peppy job applicant who made Sue Heck seem cool. Too bad she got a limited-time offer of one episode instead of a recurring gig.