I agree: Cancel Culture has gone too far. I don't mean boycotts and shutdowns and shaming or firing people for saying the wrong thing. Though there are certainly places where it's gone too far...

2020

Sep

THE MYSTERIES AND DRAMA OF THE WEALTHY ON 'THE SOUNDS' By David Hinckley

Rotten rich people form a cornerstone of entertaining TV drama, as any fan of Dynasty can attest. To that long and infamous list, we can now add the Cabbotts from The Sounds, a new Canadian mystery drama...

2020

Aug

RARE FILM IS ONE OF MANY HIGHLIGHTS OF 'BEING THE QUEEN,' THE STORY OF BRITAIN'S LONGEST-REIGNING MONARCH By David Hinckley

We may have discarded the British monarchy 237 years ago, but we continue to send valentines, sometimes without even any particular occasion...

2020

Aug

THE BEAUTY OF OUR HOME ON 'PLANET EARTH: A CELEBRATION' By David Hinckley

BBC America has just put together the kind of show that gives reruns and mashups a good name...

2020

Aug

NOT YOUR CLASSIC ANIMAL STORY: 'THE HUNT FOR ESCOBAR'S HIPPOS' By David Hinckley

It's a show about a band of rogue hippopotamuses who escaped from the lake of a deceased drug cartel kingpin and have gone feral in the rivers of Colombia. Is there anything here that is less than fascinating?...

2020

Aug

CELEBRATING PARALYMPIANS WITH 'RISING PHOENIX' By David Hinckley

The difference between the Olympics and the Paralympics, Australian swimmer Ellie Cole explains, is that "in the Olympics, all the bodies look the same. In the Paralympics, everyone looks different."...

2020

Aug

'THE SUSPECT' EXAMINES THE MURDER OF A MOOSEHEAD BREWERY HEIR By David Hinckley

The import series The Suspect proves real life can give us a murder mystery as complex as the scripted kind...

2020

Aug

HBO'S 'LOVECRAFT COUNTRY' IS A DRAMA FILLED WITH HORROR OF THE HUMAN AND NON-HUMAN VARIETIES By David Hinckley

HBO's new drama Lovecraft Country ambitiously attempts to blend two popular genres: a sobering Green Book-style tale of 1950s American social justice and a full-out 1950s-style monster horror movie...

2020

Aug

'APOCALYPSE '45' REVISITS THE LAST MONTHS OF WORLD WAR II – FIRST IN THEATERS, THEN OUR HOMES By David Hinckley

Amid the focus on the 75^th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, a new documentary pivots slightly to recount the Pacific war that set the stage for that stark moment...

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David Hinckley

David Hinckley first grasped the power of television when, at the age of 8, he bullied his parents into buying a basset hound like Cleo on The People’s Choice. He named her Cleo. Somewhat more recently, he worked for 35 years at The New York Daily News, the last seven covering television.

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