"The Grinder" has really come together nicely in recent weeks. Some quick thoughts on last night's episode, and the season to date, coming up just as soon as you give us the room... Back at press tour, "The Grinder" creators insisted the show wasn't meant to be a Hollywood satire. But when your title character is an ex-actor who has trouble distinguishing reality from his old scripts, it makes sense to just steer into that particular skid, and the show has been much better for its embrace of Dean's past, particularly in this two-parter about Cliff Bemis, Timothy Olyphant, and "The Grinder: New Orleans." What was so effective about these two was that they didn't brush the family stuff aside and overload on inside showbiz gags. There were still plenty of those (like Dean shifting from hatred of the spin-off to wildly over-the-top fake praise the moment Bemis enters the room,...
- 12/2/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
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