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2 days ago | 
pajiba.com | Dustin Rowles
By Dustin Rowles | TV | May 14, 2025 Apologies for the vague headline, but I didn’t want to spoil anything, although there’s apparently nothing to spoil. After seven seasons of The Rookie, the series feels so established that it no longer bothers to pull out all the stops for its finales.
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2 days ago | 
pajiba.com | Dustin Rowles
Before I reveal the new/old name of WarnerDiscovery’s streaming service, I want everyone here to understand that David Zaslav, the CEO of WarnerDiscovery, makes $50 million a year.
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2 days ago | 
pajiba.com | Dustin Rowles
At last count, I am currently subscribed to ten streaming services (not including ad-free YouTube, which is honestly a ridiculous $8 monthly charge just to avoid ads on Taskmaster). Three more are arriving soon, and while each will have its audience, only one is likely to be competitive. But it will also be the most expensive on the market: the forthcoming ESPN streaming platform. It will cost a whopping $30 a month, but it’s a must-have for folks who watch a lot of sports.
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3 days ago | 
pajiba.com | Dustin Rowles
Last week’s trailer for Stephen King’s The Long Walk surpassed the trailer for Murderbot as the best trailer of the year so far. But look out, because here comes Bob Odenkirk with what is, at least in my mind, the new greatest trailer of 2025 (so far). I wasn’t quite sold on the idea that they could make a sequel to Nobody work. That movie, after all, was mostly a VOD/streaming hit that capitalized on the dearth of films post-COVID.
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3 days ago | 
pajiba.com | Dustin Rowles
I’m not sure I will ever truly understand the appeal of the original Suits, which ran for nine seasons on the USA Network (maybe five of them were good) before experiencing a stratospheric resurgence during the 2023 writers’ strike, a phenomenon that remains largely inexplicable. It was never a great show, and no one who watched it would dispute that, but the cast had a certain alchemy that just worked.
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3 days ago | 
pajiba.com | Dustin Rowles
SpoilersThrough three seasons of White Lotus, the big, lingering question driving much of the conversation—both online and off—is: Who is responsible for the murder teased at the beginning of each season before the series flashes back to the events leading up to it? By the midpoint of each season, that question becomes an obsession. I know because I write about it often.
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4 days ago | 
pajiba.com | Dustin Rowles
SpoilersI am not a serious viewer of CBS’s Watson. I watched the pilot. It was OK. I kept checking in, spot-checking and half-watching episodes, mostly because I didn’t particularly care about the weekly medical cases. They’re boring. It feels like the kind of show where writers skim through medical journals to find the most obscure diseases imaginable and then build entire episodes around those diagnoses. The interoffice drama didn’t do much for me, either.
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4 days ago | 
pajiba.com | Dustin Rowles
One of the weird joys of The Amazing Race is imagining how you’d handle the same challenges. I’m terrible with directions—in high school, my best friend ironically nicknamed me “Magellan”—and my wife is a relentless backseat driver. We’d probably bicker during the driving legs, although my wife has this uncanny ability to lock in under pressure and remain almost supernaturally composed in public.
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5 days ago | 
pajiba.com | Dustin Rowles
Cold Open — They teased bringing out the SNL moms again, but it was only to set up the crushing realization that it would be another Trump cold open. Fortunately, while James Austin Johnson’s Trump did shut down the idea of having Da Bears celebrate the Pope, they did bring back Cecily Strong to play Jeanine Pirro (still perfect) and spit alcohol into Colin Jost’s mouth (as Pete Hegseth). (Score: 6.5 out of 10)Walton Goggins Monologue — Goggins is great.
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6 days ago | 
pajiba.com | Dustin Rowles
By Dustin Rowles | TV | May 10, 2025 There was a bloodbath at NBC this week, as the network took an axe to several series. I am not terribly surprised that Suits: LA only made it one season. As someone who watched all of Suits during its original run, I could recognize that it was fairly mediocre (especially the latter seasons). Suits: LA was a whole different level of bad. Suits was an easy, breezy watch. Suits: LA felt like a chore. It won’t be missed.
