An unsolved serial murder case doesn't make for a wildly uplifting television show, but the Netflix production, Lost Girls, finds small victories in a sad game...

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WHEN WILL WE MOVE TO ANOTHER PLANET? 'COSMOS: POSSIBLE WORLDS' OFFERS OPTIONS By David Hinckley

Debate the feasibility of large-scale intergalactic space travel all you want. On National Geographic's new season of Cosmos: Possible Worlds, mass migration to other planets is settled science...

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THE NEXT CHAPTER OF 'BLOOD' ARRIVES ON ACORN By David Hinckley

Things have not gone well for the Hogan family since the end of the first series of the psychological crime drama Blood...

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'ZEROZEROZERO' IS AN INTERNATIONAL DRUG DRAMA THAT LOOKS AT A FULLER PICTURE By David Hinckley

It turns out that serving as the broker between Mexican drug cartels and mob-run drug distributors is about what you'd expect. Lucrative but risky...

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AN 'AMAZING STORIES' REBOOT LANDS AT APPLE TV+ By David Hinckley

It takes about five seconds for a reboot of Amazing Stories to fully conjure the spirit of Steven Spielberg, who created the original 1985 series...

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'HILLARY,' THE LATEST DOCUMENTARY ON HULU, IS ABOUT MUCH MORE THAN ONE PERSON By David Hinckley

I still don't understand why so many people dislike Hillary Clinton. I mention this because I had hoped Hulu's new documentary Hillary, which becomes available Friday, might provide some insight...

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WITH 'DEVS,' HULU HAS A NEW TECH THRILLER THAT OFFERS SOME TRADITIONAL TROPES By David Hinckley

Making tech billionaires into villains for purposes of TV drama isn't a tough sell. Devs...doesn't waste time in letting us know that its Big Bad is Forest (Nick Offerman), the calculating bossman at a tech giant...

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WHAT ITS LIKE NAVIGATING THROUGH YOUR 'TWENTIES' By David Hinckley

If an hour-long TV show these days can mostly be funny, there's no reason a half-hour show can't be mostly serious...

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'BREEDERS' REPRODUCES A TYPICAL SITCOM WITH FX-FRIENDLY LANGUAGE By David Hinckley

Breeders seems like a strange sitcom to show up on FX...

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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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