By Damian Holbrook
Cheers to Nancy Drew
for solving the mystery of how to make a nearly 90-year-old icon relevant. By casting the super-likable Kennedy McMann as our new teen sleuth and adding a wicked supernatural angle, The CW’s freshman thriller is sexy, scary and so worthy of its beloved literary roots.
Cheers to American Horror Story
for making a Popular casting decision. As 1984’s hilarious, yet homicidal summer-camp owner, Leslie Grossman has been slaying it with even more gusto than when she was stealing every scene as demented cheerleader Mary Cherry in AHS creator Ryan Murphy’s 1999-2001 WB comedy.
Jeers to A Streaming-Service Bait and Switch.
With Search Party moving from TBS to HBO Max for its next two seasons, fans of Alia Shawkat’s hipster comedy who are already paying for cable will have to cough up even more if they want to find out what happens next. Not cool.
Jeers to Bluff City Law
going out of business. With so many TV shows out there these days, NBC’s appealing family drama starring Jimmy Smits and Caitlin McGee as father-daughter legal eagles should have been given more than a ten-episode run to find the audience it deserved. We object to the plug being pulled so quickly!