HEADLINE OF THE WEEK

BEAT IT
: Michael Moonwalks


Boston Herald (previously a winner for HELLFIRE!, after Waco. Why was there so little competition for this?)


MUST BE A GOOD SIGN

When the season-closer of a series makes you feel a sense of loss. THE SHIELD did this, despite the fact that Glenn Close’s last scene, fired and sipping wine alone in her apartment, didn’t send shudders down the spine. But it was just a gentle landing to a show that’s all about subtext, which is lacking in most forms of dramatic storytelling these days. In fact, it’s a theme: Seans Ryan’s premise is that cops specialize in deceit in all realms. This guy is the heir to David Milch.


So it was doubly weird to watch HBO return to comedic triumph with its new season of ENTOURAGE, with Jeremy Piven splattering his agent ego all over the Laker’s court, and follow it up with the weirdly off-tone COMEBACK, with a knowning lead performance by FRIENDS’s Lisa Kudrow trapped inside a script that delivered more squirms than laughs.