Covert Affairs: Season One

Spy show wants to be sassy, doesn't always deliver

Television series
Rod Lott
USA — and now your DVD player — is the perfect home for a series like “Covert Affairs”: It’s light, breezy and mildly entertaining.

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Burning Palms

A near-excellent work of jet-black comedy

Comedy
Rod Lott
Imagine if the storylines of Robert Altman’s “Short Cuts” weren’t so intertwined, and then separated and structured in a comic-book framework akin to George A. Romero’s “Creepshow.”

Tuesday, May 17, 2011