by Shawn Krest | Oct 10, 2017 | No Effort TV Reviews, Staying In
This show is completely different from Everybody Loves Raymond. In THAT show, the adult son, his parents, and his adult brother live next door to each other, but they’re in HOUSES. In THIS show, they live in neighboring APARTMENTS. Here’s another way this show is...
by Shawn Krest | Oct 10, 2017 | No Effort TV Reviews, Staying In
We open with an extreme close up of Bobby Moynihan’s face, and—while I realize it’s unfair—all I can think is that I’m watching a SNL fake commercial. But I’m sure he can carry a show as the lead. I mean, what could possibly go wrong? The concept of the show is...
by Shawn Krest | Sep 27, 2017 | No Effort TV Reviews, Staying In
As a public service, Raleigh & Company is committed to watching every new network television show of the Fall season … so you don’t have to. Don’t feel too badly for us, we don’t watch most of them for long. In fact, our primary measure of...
by Shawn Krest | Sep 27, 2017 | No Effort TV Reviews, Staying In
I didn’t budget much time for this uplifting drama about a teenaged, autistic genius doctor, but it managed to escape an early death with a quirky beginning. We see Freddie Highmore preparing for the day through a series of oddly cropped camera shots, reminiscent of...
by Shawn Krest | Sep 27, 2017 | No Effort TV Reviews, Staying In
We open at a Doctors Without Borders outpost in Syria, where a saintly female doctor works to save lives. She gives encouragement to patients during procedures and promises to follow up with them in post-op. This is someone we all want as our primary-care...
by Shawn Krest | Sep 27, 2017 | No Effort TV Reviews, Staying In
First things first: This prequel spin-off of The Big Bang Theory isn’t as bad as the trailers made it look. Of course, it would be hard to maintain that level of awful. Actually, by putting most of the first two segments of the pilot in the trailers, the show prepared...
by Shawn Krest | Sep 23, 2017 | ACC Hall of Fame, Sports
In February, we convened an all-star panel of veteran ACC media to select our inaugural class for the ACC Men’s Basketball Hall of Fame. Now, it’s time to open the Hall doors for the best in ACC football. The rules, in short, are that anyone who played in...
by Shawn Krest | Sep 11, 2017 | No Effort Reviews, Staying In
For the third straight year, Raleigh & Company will watch every single new show to debut on a major broadcast network during the Fall Season. So you don’t have to. It’s a tough job, but making it easier is the fact that we don’t watch them for long. In fact, the...
by Shawn Krest | Aug 18, 2017 | Personal Stories
August has been a stressful month for Americans. The disturbing weekend in Charlottesville, followed by the president’s reluctance to condemn the white supremacist groups led many to fear that the deep divisions in our country could lead to widespread violence. In...
