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Home » FOX

Tag: FOX

Posted inNews & Politics

This is my brain on local TV news

by Maya Dukmasova August 13, 2020August 18, 2021

Thirteen and a half hours of broadcasts on looting leave a day of impressions without a trace.

Posted inBlogs

Aldermen propose dumping TSA and hiring private security for city airports, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd May 19, 2016August 18, 2021

Also, Senator Mark Kirk offers tepid support for the “river boat gamble” Donald Trump.

Posted inBlogs

Fox’s Houdini & Doyle needs more magic

by Brianna Wellen May 5, 2016August 18, 2021

This new drama should just leave the past in the past.

Posted inBlogs

Watching Fox’s Scream Queens is a unique brand of torture

by Chicago Reader October 13, 2015August 18, 2021

Racist, misogynist, homophobic—this send-up of the slasher genre is more horrible than horror.

Posted inBlogs

Watching Wayward Pines and embracing the miniseries

by Gwynedd Stuart May 21, 2015August 18, 2021

The new Fox show’s creator has promised a beginning, middle, and end in a single season.

Posted inBlogs

Empire’s ‘Drip Drop’ doesn’t hold a candle to rapper Big Dipper’s version

by Leor Galil February 5, 2015August 18, 2021

Last night’s episode of Fox’s Empire partly focused on a track called “Drip Drop”; bear rapper Big Dipper released a song with that title back in 2011.

Posted inBlogs

Guy detectives continue to have all the fun on Backstrom

by Gwynedd Stuart January 28, 2015August 18, 2021

Two ambiguous detective types lead two very different shows.

Posted inBlogs

Fox’s Empire is a brand new ‘Lear’

by Danette Chavez January 7, 2015August 18, 2021

The new FOX drama is damn entertaining.

Posted inBlogs

Our ten favorite things on TV in 2014

by Reader staff December 26, 2014August 18, 2021

We didn’t watch it all—but here’s the best of what we did watch.

Posted inBlogs

Bob’s Burgers returns and works it, girl

by Danette Chavez October 7, 2014August 18, 2021

The immensely lovable cartoon returns with competing musicals in an episode that will go down as a great.

Posted inBlogs

Family Guy/Simpsons crossover is a TV ‘d’oh!n’t’

by Danette Chavez September 30, 2014August 18, 2021

The cartoon mashup you didn’t even know you really didn’t want

Posted inBlogs

The pre-Batman world of Fox’s Gotham isn’t so black and white

by Danette Chavez September 25, 2014August 18, 2021

The line between the good guys and the bad guys blurs on the new series.

Posted inBlogs

Fall TV: Our recommendations (and whatever the opposite of recommendations are)

by Gwynedd Stuart September 16, 2014August 18, 2021

Zombies, suburban bureaucrats, sexually deviant judges, and more of what we are and specifically are not excited about this season

Posted inBlogs

I choo choo choose you: Reader staffers pick their all-time favorite episodes of The Simpsons

by Gwynedd Stuart August 22, 2014August 18, 2021

Make the most of FXX’s Simpsons marathon.

This is what a few thousand VHS copies of Jerry Maguire look like.
Posted inArts & Culture

Everything is wonderful in the world of Everything Is Terrible!

by Drew Hunt May 20, 2014August 18, 2021

Everything Is Terrible! is collaborating with the likes of MTV and Fox, but its core mission—to be as weird as possible—holds true.

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