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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive

2018

Sep

FX'S 'MAYANS MC' GIVES 'SONS OF ANARCHY' A NEW BABY BOY By Ed Bark

Once you learn how to ride a bike...

2018

Aug

'TOM CLANCY'S JACK RYAN' GIVES AMAZON A MONEY-ON-THE-SCREEN GRIPPER By Ed Bark

The money quote for Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan comes at the pivotal midpoint of an eventually high voltage Episode 1...

2018

Aug

MEN AT WORK? IN THE ONGOING #METOO WAVE, NOT SO MUCH AND NOT SURPRISINGLY SO By Ed Bark

For decade upon decade, television networks maled it in, mostly with white men...

2018

Aug

BRENDAN GLEESON REMAINS A CUT ABOVE IN SEASON 2 OF AUDIENCE NETWORK'S MR. MERCEDES By Ed Bark

The pace is deliberate at best, and in full-dawdle at times, as Season 2 of the Audience network’s Mr. Mercedes begins just a bit before the first one left off...

2018

Aug

ACORN TV'S 'MYSTERY ROAD' IS NOT QUITE ON TRACK, DESPITE THE ESTIMABLE PRESENCE OF JUDY DAVIS By Ed Bark

Judy Davis’ Emmy Award-winning performance as Judy Garland in a 2001 ABC miniseries remains one of television’s greatest ever. So where she goes next, I try to follow...

2018

Aug

TELEVISION'S REBOOT/REBIRTH MANIA By Ed Bark

Your friendly content provider reviewed all of the following in their original incarnations. And now here they come again to offer another whack...

2018

Aug

SEASON TWO OF 'GET SHORTY' IMPROVES ON THE FIRST WHILE AGAIN GIVING EPIX A BOOSTER SHOT By Ed Bark

Two of last year’s very best first-year drama series, HBO’s The Deuce and Epix’s Get Shorty, received total bypasses from Emmy voters last month...

2018

Aug

'FRONTLINE' PUTS NAMES TO FACES IN 'DOCUMENTING HATE: CHARLOTTESVILLE' By Ed Bark

Charlottesville, VA, former home of Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe, may never again be primarily known for that...

2018

Aug

WGN AMERICA'S IMPORTED 'CARTER' GIVES JERRY O'CONNELL SOMETHING TO DO By Ed Bark

Dripping with likability but yet to land The Big One, Jerry O’Connell takes the work where he can get it...

2018

Aug

SEASON 2 OF USA'S 'THE SINNER' AGAIN MAKES A STRONG CASE FOR ITSELF By Ed Bark

Season 1 of USA network’s The Sinner took the who out of whodunit and replaced it with why...

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Ed Bark

Since 2006, Ed Bark's local and national TV stories and observations have been showcased on his pioneering website, www.unclebarky.com. For 26 years before that, he was TV critic for the Dallas Morning News. He's a past president of the Television Critics Association, and for seven years served on the national Peabody Awards board.

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