After playing Norman Bates for five years on A&E, Freddie Highmore knows what it is to have an out-of-body mind of his own... autistic surgical resident Shaun Murphy is mental without being disturbed in ABC’s affecting The Good Doctor...

2017

Sep

CINEMAX'S "MIKE JUDGE PRESENTS: TALES FROM THE TOUR BUS" TIES ONE ON WITH COUNTRY'S MOST SELF-DESTRUCTIVE STARS (MOST NOW DEAD) By Ed Bark

Hey network execs, just don’t say no to Mike Judge...

2017

Sep

PRIME-TIME EMMYS POUND AWAY AT TRUMP (AND ALSO GIVE AWAY SOME AWARDS) By Ed Bark

Let’s first dispense with the night’s biggest winners before turning to the real headline-maker from Sunday’s 69th annual Prime-Time Emmy Awards on CBS...

2017

Sep

KEN BURNS' 'THE VIETNAM WAR' BRINGS IT ALL BACK HOME IN WAYS HIS OTHER FILMS NEVER HAVE By Ed Bark

Going against the grain of their usual approach, Ken Burns and producing partner Lynn Novick have seen to it that historians, sociologists, and other assorted academics are kept out of The Vietnam War. The history is still too recent and raw for that...

2017

Sep

FOX'S 'THE ORVILLE' SO FAR, IS LOST IN SPACE By Ed Bark

The Orville doesn’t lack for ambition or expense, or about violating any of the often laughably sacred “canon” from previous versions of Star Trek... on the contrary, The Orville is completely on its own. Which so far is the problem...

2017

Sep

HBO'S 'THE DEUCE' GOES DOWN AND DIRTY INTO THE '70S By Ed Bark

Set in a thoroughly convincing, garbage-strewn mockup of 1971 New York City, The Deuce is the soiled saga of how the hardcore porn industry worked its way to legalization...

2017

Sep

FOR POST ‘MAD MEN’ CAREERS, ELISABETH MOSS IS OUT FRONT By Ed Bark

As post-Mad Men careers go, Jon Hamm seemed like the prohibitive favorite to burst from the pack and stay out front. He hasn’t been hurting for work, but can’t keep up with Elisabeth Moss...

2017

Sep

THUMPING TRUMP WITH ‘AMERICAN HORROR STORY: CULT’ By Ed Bark

Donald Trump’s election is the super-scary, aggressively unsubtle tipping point in FX’s seventh incarnation of American Horror Story...

2017

Aug

NETFLIX'S 'DISJOINTED' GOES TO POT WITHOUT TAKING YOU HIGHER By Ed Bark

Kathy Bates is taking a break from American Horror Story to play the longtime proprietor of a Los Angeles medical marijuana dispensary in Netflix's new Disjointed...

2017

Aug

A TRUMP IS A TRUMP -- THEN AND NOW By Ed Bark

Anybody still waiting for The Pivot to a “presidential” version of Donald Trump? Today’s Trump is pretty much a carbon copy of the guy who appeared before a hotel ballroom full of TV critics 10-and-a-half years ago...

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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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