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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
 
 
 
2020
May
11
PBS' 'ASIAN AMERICANS' EXPLORES EXTRAORDINARY DETERMINATION AGAINST EXTREME PREJUDICE By David Hinckley
 
 
Long before the phrase “Chinese flu” gave some folks the green light to harass Asian Americans, a lot of other folks had been doing it anyway...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
10
'I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE' IS A GRIM TALE WITH STRONG PERFORMANCES – ESPECIALLY MARK RUFFALO By David Hinckley
 
 
HBO’s new miniseries I Know This Much Is True might cheer you up, but only by comparison...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
8
THE UPS AND DOWNS OF PARISIAN MUSIC CLUBS ON 'THE EDDY' By David Hinckley
 
 
The new Netflix series The Eddy is what we meant years ago when we described something as “a foreign film.”...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
7
AUSTRALIA'S 'BAD MOTHERS' HAS ARRIVED FOR STREAMING ON SUNDANCE NOW By David Hinckley
 
 
So here’s this group of women in an upscale community, and they hang out together, and some of their kids go to school together. Some of them have more money than others...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
5
'NATALIE WOOD: WHAT REMAINS BEHIND' CELEBRATES HER LIFE RATHER THAN EXAMINE HER DEATH By David Hinckley
 
 
Almost four decades after Natalie Wood died, her family would love to have the world remember a lot more about her films and a little less about her death...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
4
THE PRESIDENCY OF 'GEORGE W. BUSH' ON "AMERICAN EXPERIENCE" By David Hinckley
 
 
You might think the presidency of George W. Bush would look markedly different now that we’ve had three-plus years of a very different Republican president, Donald Trump...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
1
WITH 'UPLOAD,' YOU GET AN INTRIGUING, SOMEWHAT FAMILIAR, HILARIOUS SHOW By David Hinckley
 
 
If you’re missing The Good Place, which you absolutely should be, check out Amazon Prime’s new dramedy, Upload...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
1
'HOLLYWOOD,' THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY, IS AN ELABORATE PERIOD DRAMA FROM RYAN MURPHY By David Hinckley
 
 
It’s no secret that with the wonderful golden-age Hollywood movies, as with sausage, you didn’t want to know what went into making them...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
30
BRIEF BUT WELL-DONE AND FRIGHTENING HORROR STORIES START STREAMING WITH 'SOUL CITY' By David Hinckley
 
 
Television continues to play its part in the drive to reduce our attention spans to zero. Fortunately, some of the mini-content is not uninteresting...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
29
THE CAPTIVATING STORY OF 'NORMAL PEOPLE' WEAVING THROUGH EACH OTHER'S LIVES By David Hinckley
 
 
Normal People might be the most revolutionary series on television this spring. Violating every rule of what viewers are said to crave these days, it’s a story about, get this, normal people...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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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PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up
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Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James
By Mike Hughes
 
 
 
 
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self
By Monique Nazareth
 
 
 
 
Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 

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