TV viewers are getting two extensive productions this week on the British colonists who landed in 1620, and while both tell much the same basic story, they couldn’t differ more in style, temperature or conclusion...

2015

Nov

NAT GEO TELLS THE REST OF THE THANKSGIVING STORY IN NATIVE TONGUE By David Hinckley

You might not think you need a four-hour National Geographic miniseries to understand the first Thanksgiving. What more is there to know? All we’ve really done since then is add a football game, right? Well, maybe not...

2015

Nov

'HIGH CASTLE' WEIGHS THE HIGH STAKES OF LOSING WWII By David Hinckley

One of the many things Amazon’s new The Man in the High Castle does well is to refresh our perspective on freedom...

2015

Nov

WHY ‘THE BASTARD EXECUTIONER’ FAILED AND WHY WE EVEN NOTICE By David Hinckley

In a move that caused virtually no ripple at all in the TV biz, FX cancelled The Bastard Executioner this week...

2015

Nov

NETFLIX GOES TO THE DARK SIDE WITH MARVEL'S 'JESSICA JONES' By David Hinckley

Melissa Rosenberg, who created Netflix’s intense new Jessica Jones series, doesn’t see why white guys should be the only ones who get to enjoy a world of constant danger, unrelenting darkness and haunted self-doubt...

2015

Nov

'THE ART OF MORE': GREED IS STILL GOOD By David Hinckley

The new Crackle drama is set on the dark side of high-end auction house andrevives the notion – as if it ever died – that greed is good...

2015

Nov

HOW TV RESPONDED TO THE TRAGEDY IN PARIS By David Hinckley

Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris triggered, again, all-news television’s most ironic and inescapable dilemma...

2015

Nov

BRIAN WILLIAMS BACK IN A FAMILIAR SEAT: IN FRONT OF BREAKING NEWS By David Hinckley

Friday evening’s saturation coverage of the Paris terrorist attacks finally planted Brian Williams back on the stage where he has long done his best work...

2015

Nov

AMC'S 'INTO THE BADLANDS' LUNGES INTO A BLOOD-SPLATTERED FUTURE By David Hinckley

If your main complaint about Game of Thrones is that it needs more violence, Into the Badlands may be just your ticket....

2015

Nov

SARAH HAY SOMTIMES FEELS SORRY FOR CLAIRE IN 'FLESH AND BONE' By David Hinckley

When it came to signing up for the role of Claire Robbins in the Starz series Flesh and Bone, Sarah Hay says that in retrospect, ignorance was bliss...

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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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