You’d think that Bernard Madoff, who built the biggest Ponzi scheme in history might be a complex, nuanced, fascinating man. In an evil sort of way. You’d be wrong...

2016

Feb

CRITIC CONFESSES: WHY HE'S A SUCKER FOR 'SUITS' (AND DONNA) By David Hinckley

I admit it. I’m still a sucker for Suits. USA’s lawyer drama has a big reveal coming up this week. We will learn who ratted out Mike Ross...

2016

Feb

WHY THOSE 30-SECOND SUPER BOWL ADS EXPAND LIKE A MUTANT CHICKEN'S HEART By David Hinckley

If you watch the Super Bowl to see the ads, pretty soon you may not have to watch the Super Bowl at all... more and more ads are being released online before the game...

2016

Feb

COURTNEY B. VANCE OF FX'S 'THE PEOPLE V. O.J. SIMPSON': WHAT IT TELLS US ABOUT RACE IN AMERICA TODAY By David Hinckley

If America had paid attention to what was really going on at the O.J. Simpson murder trial, says Courtney B. Vance, we might not be suffering the trouble and the death we see in our cities two decades later...

2016

Jan

'DOWNTON ABBEY' RECAP, SEASON 6, EPISODE 5: GOOD LORD, A GAME-CHANGER By David Hinckley

Dinner at Downton Abbey has gotten rowdy over the years, but it never got scary until Sunday night, when Lord Grantham...

2016

Jan

'HORACE AND PETE': A NEW MODEL FOR TV — AND LOUIS C.K.? By David Hinckley

With television drama, it’s not often that we get to say OMG, look what just splashed down. With Louie C.K.’s new Horace and Pete, we do. It's a 67-minute drama that C.K. posted on his website Saturday, without advance notice...

2016

Jan

FOX’S 'GREASE LIVE!' REMEMBERS THE '50S AS BUBBLY AND FIZZY FUN By David Hinckley

Fox’s Grease Live! this Sunday isn’t quite any of the things it’s nominally selling. That’s not a dismissal or a prejudgment. It just means viewers should assess it by what it’s really aiming to be, which is bubbly and fizzy fun...

2016

Jan

'YOU, ME AND THE APOCALYPSE'? ROB LOWE, A NUN AND 'CHRIST ON A BICYCLE'! By David Hinckley

You, Me and the Apocalypse puts the fun back into depressive television. NBC’s 10-part miniseries follows a bizarre bunch of people through what are billed as the last 34 days of civilization on the planet Earth...

2016

Jan

'OUTSIDERS' REVELS IN A BACKWOODS CLAN THAT'S 'ALMOST SHAKESPEARIAN' By David Hinckley

It would be convenient to see Outsiders as a lucky case of TV art imitating life, with a small Appalachian clan being forced by the Feds off the rugged mountain on which they have lived for 200 years...

2016

Jan

ANDREW DAVIES, TV'S MASTER CRAFTSMAN, TRIUMPHS AGAIN WITH 'WAR AND PEACE' By David Hinckley

Leo Tolstoy might have been surprised by a few of the scenes in the new television adaptation of War and Peace, just as Jane Austen might have been surprised 20 years ago by a few scenes in the television version of Pride & Prejudice...

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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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