Given all the loose-ended, bizarro world TV dramas currently in play, it turns out to be a distinct pleasure to review a limited series with a linear storyline and a definitive ending...

2016

Oct

THERE ARE NO FREE AGENTS IN EPIX' CIA DRAMA 'BERLIN STATION' By Ed Bark

Berlin Station has both an authentic look and feel. As with most cloak-and-dagger dramas, there’s a lot of following around while the mind games escalate and the sound track remains stuck in the key of ominous. Berlin Station so far looks like a series worth riding out...

2016

Oct

NICK NOLTE IS FORMER PRESIDENT ‘GRAVES’ AND HE SEEMS ODDLY FAMILIAR By Ed Bark

Nick Nolte is tattered, battered but still standing -- both as an actor and as former Republican President Richard Graves...

2016

Oct

'FALLING WATER' CONTINUES ON THE USA NETWORK'S NEWLY DARKER PATH By Ed Bark

Don’t be misled by the ill-fitting title, because USA’s Falling Water has nothing to do with either a very elementary weather forecast or a cooling, summertime slip ’n’ slide park...

2016

Oct

ABC'S 'AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE' HAS TOO MUCH FATTY MATERIAL By Ed Bark

ABC’s second coming of Roseanne -- and its 10th “nuclear family” comedy this season -- deploys heavy-handed humor dispensed by a fat wife and mother of three...

2016

Oct

HBO'S ‘DIVORCE’ IS A NEAR-PERFECT UNION OF SARAH JESSICA PARKER/THOMAS HADEN CHURCH By Ed Bark

Shorthand for HBO’s Divorce could be War of the Roses in weekly doses. But there’s no need to wilt at the thought...

2016

Oct

INSECURE AT LAST COLORIZES HBO By Ed Bark

While Wonder Bread CBS keeps trotting out its tired “We need to do better” mantra, FX and now HBO in fact have done notably better this season by African-American creators and performers...

2016

Oct

LESS THAN HI-TECH: THE CW’S TIME TRAVELING ‘FREQUENCY’ HAS A HAM RADIO VIBE By Ed Bark

Absent a comic book superhero, a vivaciously unfulfilled semi-comic heroine or anything close to a high-gloss veneer, Frequency is uncommonly gritty for a latter day CW series...

2016

Oct

‘NO TOMORROW’ IS IN KEEPING WITH THE CW’S CURRENT-DAY ACCENT ON APPEALING LEAD WOMEN By Ed Bark

The CW hasn’t yet cornered the market on appealing young women leading the way through comedy-dusted drama series...

2016

Oct

JUSTICE DO-OVER? ABC'S ‘CONVICTION’ LITERALLY COUNTS DOWN THE DAYS By Ed Bark

Hayley Atwell has washed that Marvel right out of her hair, quickly rebounding from ABC’s failed Agent Carter to the network’s new Conviction...

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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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