by Damian Holbrook
TV Guide Magazine
@damianholbrook
Cheers to Empire for its royal return.
After a hiatus that felt like forever, Fox’s hip-hop version of Dynasty came back to score big ratings while also setting up a juicy murder storyline that is making us forget that the first half of the season felt a little bit like a stale Cookie.
Jeers to The Walking Dead ‘s Less Than Killer Cliffhanger
After months of waiting for and dreading the arrival of Jeffery Dean Morgan’s villainous Negan, the sixth-season finale crapped out on showing us who actually met their fate at the end of his barbed wire- encased baseball bat. Talk about a swing and a miss. Next time, let’s leave the cliffhangers to Shondaland.
Cheers to Banshee for howling into its final season.
The noirishly violent crime thriller starring Antony Starr as TV’s sexiest anti-hero began its last batch of episodes by hooking–and horrifying — us with a serial- killer storyline, a shocking twist ending and a vice-as- torture scene we will never get out of our heads.
Jeers to The Real Housewives of Potomac for failing to put their town on the map.
With rivalries faker than their hair and a staggering lack of any drama, den monster Karen (left), frenemy Gizelle and their Maryland-suburb squad of wannabes made the one-and-done D.C. edition look like a damn political thriller.
