Watching the ambitious new production, Mrs. America, is like watching a ballgame whose outcome you already know. Your interest will likely be directly proportionate to how you felt about that outcome...

2020

Apr

'THE INNOCENCE FILES' TELLS THE STORY OF THE WRONGS IN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM TRYING TO BE RIGHTED EVERY DAY By David Hinckley

The most idealistic view of American justice remains the assertion of Benjamin Franklin in 1785 that it would be better to let a hundred guilty persons go free than to let one innocent person suffer. Things haven't always worked out that way...

2020

Apr

HOW ABOUT A NEW ROM-COM FOR ANOTHER NIGHT IN? ABC HAS 'THE BAKER AND THE BEAUTY' By David Hinckley

We could really use a great rom-com right about now. With The Baker and the Beauty, we get a decent one...

2020

Apr

'KILLING EVE' IS BACK FOR SEASON 3 By David Hinckley

Spoiler alert: The new season of Killing Eve doesn't begin with Eve being killed...

2020

Apr

"MASTERPIECE MYSTERY" BRINGS 'BAPTISTE' TO PBS By David Hinckley

It hardly seems like a fair fight: an old guy recovering from serious brain surgery against a young guy who casually dismembers murder victims with a chainsaw...

2020

Apr

'BELGRAVIA' IS A WONDERFUL NEW DRAMA FROM JULIAN FELLOWES OF 'DOWNTON ABBEY' FAME By David Hinckley

Julian Fellowes is offering up another stylish British period drama, and yes, he delivers...

2020

Apr

MORE SUSPENSE AND MYSTERY FROM ACORN WITH 'DEADWATER FELL' By David Hinckley

If David Tennant moves into your town, here's a tip: Move out immediately. Tennant is a wonderful actor, but every time he shows up these days, it seems that a grisly fate befalls some local innocent...

2020

Apr

'THE WINDERMERE CHILDREN,' THE MOVING STORY OF TRYING TO HELP CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST REBUILD THEIR LIVES By David Hinckley

The Windermere Children is a Holocaust story with as happy an ending as any Holocaust story can have...

2020

Apr

THE SUFFERING OF CIVILIANS DURING WWII ON 'WORLD ON FIRE,' THE LATEST "MASTERPIECE THEATER" ENTRY By David Hinckley

War doesn't victimize only people wearing uniforms, a sadly well-documented fact that gets another expansive dramatization in the new PBS series World On Fire...

2020

Apr

APPLE TV'S 'HOME BEFORE DARK' WELL WORTH ADDING TO YOUR WATCH LIST By David Hinckley

Home Before Dark, available Friday on the Apple TV+ streaming service, positions a 9-year-old journalist who wades into a murder case that grown-ups won’t touch...

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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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