daviswalden

A show with "horror" in the title has to be scary and sure enough, American Horror Story is. An anthology series that serves up excellently done stories each season, you always end up coming back for more. But you'll find that there seems to be a declining quality season to season. Despite this, AHS is incredibly well-acted and well-written.

You'd think that with Stranger Things and The Walking Dead being on TV that there'd be more to go on than what The Mist is dishing out. While The Mist could have been as intense and as meaningful as the film adaptation, it instead suffers from stale dialogue that's about as thick as the mist engulfing the town.

It's not the best crime series out there, but it does have its moments. Later on you might find yourself caring more about the cat than the result of the court case.

A solid adaptation that brings the Agatha Christie work to life in a fulfilling way, it's additions to the novel's narrative (though they remove a lot of the subtext) allow the audience to judge characters by their actions by actually getting the chance to see them. The ending is different from both the novel and the play, which sentences characters to a more conclusive ending.

It's a classic. 'Nuff said.

The new Buffy, Shadowhunters takes an elaborate world and adapts it to television well enough. While Shadowhunters' budget is evident in their special effects, the actors themselves breathe life into the characters and embody them. Shadowhunters has some struggles adapting the books into a television series, mostly stemming from the additional stories that are not in the book series, and seems to rush storylines. It's a great series for the fans and for newcomers that takes the monster-of-the-week format back to its roots.

Though The Man in the High Castle has its slow moments, this engaging drama about an alternate history where the Allies lost World War II has an expansive mythology that explores every facet of the world the show has created. Following three leads, The Man in the High Castle is able to divide their time to each section of their world and, like most historical works, is able to analyze each part with a different perspective.

Supergirl is a nice spin of the comic heroine that has been wrongly portrayed for years. Though constantly struggling to fit in its large amount of content into a single episode, Supergirl sometimes manages to leap that problem in one bound. It's the lightest series of the DC TV universe, even surpassing The Flash. Supergirl uses obscure villains well and finds a way to tie them into the show that feels both natural and seamless.

Though it's a splendidly acted and well-written spy drama that's thoroughly thought out, London Spy's need to focus on homosexual issues, while important and impactful, boggles down the plot some. The conspiracy that stems from the death is one that may prove to be both difficult to follow and hard to decipher unless fully invested in.

While the overall themes of the show and multi-generational storyline may have been too complicated too portray in such little time, Childhood's End presents a Twilight Zone leveled science-fiction scenario.