Blunt Talk
- NewsEthan Alter
Your TV To-Do List: Climb the Ladder to Another 'Treehouse of Horror'
With so much to watch on TV, it can be difficult to plan ahead. But we’re here to help! Here are the five shows you won’t want to miss this week. Crazy Ex Girlfriend: Monday, Oct. 19 at 8 p.m. on The CW Our own Ken Tucker praised The CW’s risky musical-comedy experiment during last week’s pilot premiere, while also sounding a note of caution about whether the series would be able to sustain itself over the long haul.
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'Blunt Talk': Patrick Stewart Is Wonderful, But...
Patrick Stewart gives such an amusing, skilled, energetic performance in the new Starz sitcom Blunt Talk, it’s too bad there’s not a laugh in the show, unless you think an extended sequence of a man trying in vain to put sanitary paper on an airport toilet is hilarious. His show-within-a-show is also called Blunt Talk, which implies a certain amount of editorializing, but based on the first two episodes made available for review, Blunt Talk is more like a CNN news show in the manner of Anderson
