Cheapest Ever Blu MAD MEN, BLACKLIST, SPRING, CARDS!! Blu FLASH, ARROW, DC & WHO!!

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New This Week

“Balls aren’t people, dude.”

A hilarious and unusual new sitcom directed by Chris Miller and Phil Lord (the “Jump Street” movies and “The Lego Movie”) from teleplays by star Will Forte {“MacGruber”), “The Last Man on Earth” follows Phil Miller (did Chris Lord sound too religious?), a fellow trying to figure out what to do with himself after everybody else appears to have left the planet.

How they left the planet is a little open to question. Probably because the producers deemed human remains too depressing for a sitcom, there are no corpses anywhere. Maybe everybody just disappeared, “Leftovers”-style? Maybe the disease turned them to dust, the way Buffy’s stakes did vampires?

I found myself laughing aloud an improbable number of times while I was watching the first two episodes; I was particularly taken with a number of gags involving defecation and others referencing Robert Zemeckis’ “Cast Away.”

Spoilers in invisotext. At the end of the first episode, a second human being enters the picture in the form of Carol Andrew Pilbasian (Kristen Schaal) and a surprising amount of comedy milage is derived from the fact that Carol is ridiculously incompatible with Phil. Gorgeous “Mad Men” player January Jones and others come to join the cast as well.

Beware the many non-invisotexted spoilers below:

Hitfix says:

... Lord & Miller's direction of the opening "Last Man on Earth" hour is a textbook lesson in precision comic timing and humorous use of physical space for the small screen. … I'm strongly recommending "The Last Man on Earth" …

Time says:

... I’m still not sure how the premise can sustain a series. And I still want to see more, so consider me sold. … what sells it is the understatement. …

The New York Times says:

... distinctive, charming … well made, meticulous in its comic details and pleasantly acted by Mr. Forte and Ms. Schaal …

The Washington Post says:

... instantly engaging … a charming and intelligent sendup of pop culture’s obsession with the end of everything. …

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says:

... funny, entertaining and pretty original … Creatively, there's no question "Last Man on Earth" is a winner, a unique comedy in a sea of sitcoms viewers have seen before. …

The San Francisco Chronicle says:

... Oddly, as great as Schaal is, as usual, and as great as the interplay is between Forte and Schaal, “Last Man” is actually funnier when its title is still accurate and Miller believes he is the last man on Earth. Not funnier to sustain a weekly sitcom, but on its own, funnier. …

The Boston Herald says:

... Forte is entertaining as a low-achiever bumbling about, but how do you build an entire TV show around someone talking to himself? Mild spoiler alert: You don’t. …

The Boston Globe says:

... The series serves as a great playground for Forte, who gets his glorious freak on to show what being alone can do to a person. … I was impressed by “The Last Man on Earth, and hope it can continue to spin stories and character development out of its somewhat narrow premise. …

USA Today says:

***1/2 stars out of four ... in your home, the silence may very well be broken by bursts of laughter. There may even be a few cheers for the audacity, inventiveness and achievement of Will Forte …

Variety says:

... There’s something to be said for a series that invites far more questions than it answers, and given the popularity of apocalyptic concepts (see Syfy’s “12 Monkeys” revival), it’s interesting to see the material filtered through a comedic lens, grim as the thought of mass extinction is. …

The Hollywood Reporter says:

... Watching Fox’s wonderfully creative and ridiculously entertaining new series The Last Man on Earth, you can’t help but laugh (it’s a comedy — duh), but also be truly and utterly impressed. I can’t remember the last time I watched a half-hour sitcom and thought, “I’ve never seen anything like this.” …

The CW’s “The Flash” is TV’s second crack at DC Comics’ Fastest Man Alive, following the 1990 version of that hit CBS the year after Tim Burton’s “Batman” set records in the cinemas. They even got John Wesley Shipp, who played Barry Allen in the CBS version, to play Barry’s pop this time around.

The new version is from “Green Lantern” writer Greg Berlanti, who also wrote for Warner Bros. a few years ago a movie script about The Flash. Berlanti’s Flash movie was scrapped around the time “Green Lantern” proved a critical and box office disappointment.

The longtime showrunner of The WB’s “Dawson’s Creek,” Berlanti has already created several other superhero TV series, including ABC’s “No Ordinary Family” (which starred Julie Benz as a superspeedster), The CW’s “The Tomorrow People” and The CW’s “Arrow,” which shares its universe with “The Flash.”

As with “Smallville,” all the freaks-of-the-week who menace the future Justice Leaguer owe their superpowers to a single event. But instead of a Kryptonite meteor shower, the precipitating incident is the same supercollider mishap at Central City’s STAR Labs that gives Barry his superspeed.

Freak One is The Weather Wizard, the comic-book icon who can use tornadoes to rob banks.

I like the “Flash” pilot better than I liked the “Arrow” pilot we saw two years ago. One standout is Tom Cavanagh, who used to play the bowling alley lawyer in “Ed,” and is highly watchable in a supporting role as the superscientist head of STAR Labs.

Hitfix says:

... I like "The Flash" at this stage a lot more than I did "Arrow" after its solid but unremarkable pilot episode. It helps that many of the key creative people worked together on the previous show and have learned some lessons about what does and doesn't work in a superhero TV show. But the lighter and more optimistic tone is unexplored territory that could be tough to navigate at any speed. For the first hour, anyway, "The Flash" makes it look easy.

HuffPost TV says:

... Its sprightly first hour is one of the most solidly entertaining pilots of the fall season, and it did the most important thing that first episodes must do: It made me eager to see what comes next. ( …

The New York Times says:

... Among the fall’s three new comic-book shows, “Gotham” and “Constantine” were both bound to go the dark and violent route. “The Flash” goes another way, which might not endear it to the comics fans but could attract an audience just looking for something fun. …

The Los Angeles Times says:

... an effervescent and super-engaging addition to television's increasingly grim comic-book wars …

The Washington Post says:

... Frankly, it’s all neither here nor there in an attempt to be everywhere. Barry takes off so fast that a viewer hardly gets a chance to know him — or care much about where he’s headed. …

The San Francisco Chronicle says:

... Depending on your POV and perhaps your age, the show, premiering Tuesday, is either rather bland or exactly what you’d expect from the CW, which has occasionally tried for a post-tween audience with shows like “Arrow” and “The 100.” …

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says:

... On the surface, it’s just another superhero drama in classic CW style: good-looking characters, a possible love interest for the hero, decent special effects, etc. But “The Flash” purposefully avoids the dark tone of “Arrow” … Viewers bored with superhero shows might not take to “The Flash” regardless. It’s not a revolutionary show but at a certain level it is a step away from the angst and a return to the positive, uplifting feelings evoked by the 1978 Christopher Reeve “Superman” movie.

The Boston Herald says:

... You don’t have to be a comic book fan to enjoy “The Flash,” but if you are one, there are so many Easter eggs in the pilot — especially the one at the closing moment — that you just might go into nerdgasms. “The Flash” isn’t stopping for anyone. …

The Boston Globe says:

... Let’s see if they can keep the broodiness at bay and come up with plots that have more than good vs. evil at stake. …

TV Guide says:

... one of the most enjoyable, agreeable and infectiously exuberant new shows of the fall, a welcome respite from the angst-heavy gloom that burdens so many comics-inspired superhero action shows these days (including Arrow and Fox's Gotham). …

USA Today says:

... How nice to see a superhero who counts optimism among his powers. … When Barry discovers he's survived a lightning strike, his response, surveying himself in the mirror, is "lightning gave me abs?" When he finds out lightning also has given him super-speed, his response is "Awesome." …

Variety says: