Cheers to Titans for ruling the DC Universe.

Cheers and Jeers for November 18

Cheers and Jeers for November 18

 by Damian Holbrook
 
Cheers to Titans
for ruling the DC Universe. Sorry, Batman, but the streaming platform’s first original series, centered on ex-sidekick Dick Grayson (Brenton Thwaites) and his band of severely broken heroes, is the kind of brutal, no-holds-barred superhero comic book adaptation that fans didn’t even know they needed or deserved.

Cheers to Single Parents
for treating the kids like people, not simply plot twists. Whether it’s over-the-top Halloween parties, sleepovers or pet deaths, the writers of ABC’s delightful new comedy could teach a class in mining laughs from hapless adults (including Leighton Meester and Taran Killam) while also finding the heart in how the little ones are impacted by their actions.
 
Jeers to House of Cards’ Claire
for being an enemy of the press. In the series finale, Robin Wright’s corrupt President Hale bashed a journalist’s damning story about her as being fake news because it broke online
and not even in print. That’s like saying Netflix isn’t TV because it’s not on TV!

Jeers to TV’s Awful team-up Nicknames.
Eleanor and her do-good crew from The Good Place go by the u?ber-geeky “Soul Squad,” while A Million Little Things’ Eddie, Gary and Rome (David Giuntoli, James Roday and Romany Malco, with Ron Livingston in front) dubbed themselves “The Band of Dads” when trying to help raise their late buddy’s kids. It’s like nobody has learned from the mistake that was Big Brother’s “Chilltown” alliance.