I was SO ready to like “How to Get Away With Murder,” the latest project from Shonda Rhimes, but the premiere left me wanting. Viola Davis was riveting, but the plotting was disjointed and the student characters callow.

Maybe that will improve with time. But I’m not ready to devote a season pass to it yet.

Here’s my review for TheWrap.

Do yourself a favor and watch ‘Transparent’

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Jill Soloway’s new serio-comedy is so good I plowed through all the episodes I could get my hands on yesterday, then quickly re-watched to see what I had missed the first time around.

The Amazon show revolves around a father coming out to his adult children with his secret female identity. It’s melancholy, intimate and wholly unconventional, the perfect antidote to broad sitcoms trafficking in tired cliches.

You will never think of Jeffrey Tambor the same. Amy Landecker, Jay Duplass and Gaby Hoffman are pretty terrific, too, as adult kids with their own issues.

Read my review at TheWrap here. And then go stream the show via Amazon Prime.