It was only a few minutes into watching the first episode of the new Edie Falco drama Tommy that I realized this was not a reboot of the rock opera, and Falco would not be singing "Pinball Wizard."...

2020

Feb

'INDEBTED' OWES VIEWERS BETTER LAUGHS By David Hinckley

It's tempting to say that Indebted marks the expansion of the snippy phrase "Okay, Boomer" into a sitcom, except that was already happening more than three decades ago with the likes of Family Ties...

2020

Feb

SEASON 3 OF 'THE SINNER' KEEPS BILL PULLMAN AND ADDS MATT BOMER FOR A STRONG NEW STORY By David Hinckley

Bill Pullman just keeps getting better as the third season of USA's The Sinner premieres Thursday at 9 p.m. ET...

2020

Feb

'FARGO' FANS WILL ENJOY 'BRIARPATCH' By David Hinckley

Let's get this out of the way right up front: USA's new anthology drama, Briarpatch, is going to remind many folks of Fargo, and in making that association, they will not be wrong...

2020

Feb

A FATHER'S JOURNEY IN MEMORY OF HIS SON – 'THE PHARMACIST' By David Hinckley

Dan Schneider's story was never going to have a happy ending. His son Danny had been murdered on a late-night run to buy drugs, and that was never going to change...

2020

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THE EPIC DISCOVERY AND DISMANTLING OF A BILLION DOLLAR MONOPOLY SCAM – 'MCMILLIONS' By David Hinckley

Anyone who ate a Big Mac between 1989 and 2001 – you can admit it, there's no shame – remembers the McDonald's Monopoly game...

2020

Jan

'THE GOOD PLACE' GAVE US A WONDERFUL ENDING FILLED WITH SUBTLE AND BEAUTIFUL LIFE LESSONS By David Hinckley

To say The Good Place had the right ending is not to say it had the ending a lot of its fans wanted...

2020

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HOW ONE MAN WORKED TIRELESSLY TO KEEP OUR FOOD SAFE: 'THE POISON SQUAD' By David Hinckley

No one likes government regulation. No, sir. It's bureaucrats getting in the way of productivity. When leaders kill burdensome regulations, the people cheer. Except there's this thing that people like even less than regulation...

2020

Jan

JIM LEHRER 1934 – 2020 By David Hinckley

Jim Lehrer got to be the kind of journalist we all should want, and most of us say we want, and many of us really don't want...

2020

Jan

THE NEXT SEASON OF NETFLIX'S SUPERNATURAL 'CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA' IS AS DARK AS IT IS DELIGHTFUL By David Hinckley

If Chilling Adventures of Sabrina were a bottle of wine, it might be described as ritualistic, but oddly charming...

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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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