'Outsiders' brings the saga of unkempt, contemporary Appalachian mountain men and women who drink hard, seemingly bathe infrequently and have built a psychic wall between themselves and all those varmints down below...

2016

Jan

LIPPY, QUIPPY, VAIN AND URBANE, THE DEVIL GETS A PART-TIME POLICE GIG By Ed Bark

Lucifer's gotten tired of the whole Hades thing after a few centuries and has decided to take a “vacation” in L.A. He's now doing quite nicely as the owner of Lux, a ribald, upscale nightclub...

2016

Jan

'THE X-FILES' RETURNS — AND THIS SHOULD BE THE LAST TIME By Ed Bark

This is looking like a bad idea at best, particularly after a thoroughly ridiculous, serio-comic third episode squanders any carryover suspense let alone a reason to exist anew...

2016

Jan

DESPERATE LIVES PLAYED FOR GRINS IN FX'S FINELY WOVEN 'BASKETS' By Ed Bark

FX’s male-centric misery index remains very much alive and suffering... But all are pre-serpent Gardens of Eden compared to FX’s Baskets, in which Zach Galifianakis plays perhaps the saddest sack in TV series history...

2016

Jan

BONNIE AND CLYDE RIDE AGAIN (BUT YOU KNEW THEY WOULD) ON PBS' 'AMERICAN EXPERIENCE' SERIES By Ed Bark

No matter how many times it’s told, the story just never gets old. PBS’ American Experience series at last gets around to Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow after four previous big- and small-screen treatments of their murderous crime spree...

2016

Jan

SHOWTIME'S 'BILLIONS' IS MONEY IN THE BANK WITH GIAMATTI AND LEWIS By Ed Bark

Two bravura performances for the most part overcome the sometimes convoluted, other times confusing goings-on in Showtime’s Billions...

2016

Jan

FROM 'POLICE SQUAD!' TO 'ANGIE TRIBECA': WHAT TOOK SO LONG? By Ed Bark

ABC’s Police Squad! did it first with a lamentably short-lived, Leslie Nielsen-starring spoof of all those deadly serious cop dramas...

2016

Jan

'MERCY STREET' SERVES UP CIVIL WAR TRAUMA IN A HARD-PRESSED HOSPITAL By Ed Bark

Well-meaning but oh so somber, Mercy Street is a rare, born-in-the USA drama for a network that has relied on the British for almost everything in this genre. It’s a Code Black of the Civil War era...

2016

Jan

USA'S 'COLONY' GIVES EARTH YET ANOTHER BAD TIME OF IT By Ed Bark

Earth never comes out ahead in the future. At least not in television dramas...

2016

Jan

FREQUENTLY BLEEPED GOLDEN GLOBES NEED A COURSE CORRECTION OR A NEW NETWORK By Ed Bark

A few words on Sunday night’s Golden Globes -- all of them printable in this case.

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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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