Cut Copy Fabric, a trend-setting club in London, produces a reliably enjoyable dance series called "Fabriclive," featuring regular D.J.'s from its Friday-night party.
From the eponymous late founder of one of Aussie's biggest brands of the 1990s and 2000s, the Robert Oatley Series offers some of the most reliably enjoyable, well-made wines around, with this chardonnay luminous, crisp and layered.
Though it's a veritable buffet of delights by comparison, St Vincent (EIV, 12) has no more claim to being essential: a tissue-paper vehicle for Bill Murray's reliably enjoyable soft-crust curmudgeon act, Theodore Melfi's good-neighbour comedy tests its star and audience in equal measure, which is to say barely at all.
ABC's other new family sitcom, "Black-ish," created by Kenya Barris and Larry Wilmore (who left to do "The Nightly Show," on Comedy Central), has had fifteen episodes, giving it more of a chance to grow than "Fresh Off the Boat"—and in that time the series has transformed from hokey formula into one of the goofiest, most reliably enjoyable comedies around.
ABC's other new family sitcom, "Black-ish," created by Kenya Barris and Larry Wilmore (who left to do "The Nightly Show," on Comedy Central), has had fifteen episodes, giving it more of a chance to grow than "Fresh Off the Boat" — and in that time the series has transformed from hokey formula into one of the goofiest, most reliably enjoyable comedies around.
Allen may not be up to speed yet, so to speak, but the reliably enjoyable "Arrow" often leaves more expensive and highly touted shows in its dust.
