On the surface, The Goodwin Games seems to exemplify an increasingly common small screen trend: Disappointment Television, a.k.a. pedigreed, mega-hyped series that build impossibly high expectations and end up landing more with a whimper than a bang. (See also: Smash, The Newsroom, and, to some extent, Arrested Development’s fourth season.)
Like its brethren, Goodwin was conceived and created by a big-name team — in this case, How I Met Your Mother’s Carter Bays and Craig Thomas. Like the others, it features a cast of talented ringers, including Scott Foley, Beau Bridges, and most of all Becki Newton,...
Like its brethren, Goodwin was conceived and created by a big-name team — in this case, How I Met Your Mother’s Carter Bays and Craig Thomas. Like the others, it features a cast of talented ringers, including Scott Foley, Beau Bridges, and most of all Becki Newton,...
- 7/1/2013
- by Hillary Busis
- EW.com - PopWatch
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