My work is very much like the restaurant critic's - a number of factors come together to make for a strong review.
Hank Stuever"Star Trek" expands almost instinctively - the more information you seek from it, the more it gives. It also has the benefit of taking place in our future, our mutual destinies as occupants of a peaceful, non-polluted Earth.
Hank StueverMy first few years as TV critic, I would go to parties and people (usually older Posties or ex-Posties who seemed to pride themselves on not watching very much television) would take me by the arm and insist that I watch this show they'd recently starting watching on DVD, about drug dealers in Baltimore.
Hank StueverWhenever people ask me if it's okay to stop watching "The Leftovers," I always say OF COURSE IT IS.
Hank Stuever