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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
 
 
 
2018
Sep
18
THE STRUGGLES OF GRIEF ARE ADDRESSED THROUGH 'SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS' By David Hinckley
 
 
In the opening episode of Sorry For Your Loss, we never learn why Matt Greer (Mamoudou Athie) died at a tragically young age. We only know that he’s gone and that his wife Leigh (Elizabeth Olsen) has watched her own life shatter into a thousand pieces...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
17
'INSIDE THE MANSON CULT: THE LOST TAPES' DOESN'T OFFER MUCH NEW By David Hinckley
 
 
A new Fox documentary on the late mass murderer Charles Manson reinforces, perhaps not by choice, the near-certainty that there may be little more to know or say about him...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
13
THE TRAGIC YET HOPEFUL STORY OF 'THE OSLO ACCORDS' ON HBO By David Hinckley
 
 
A quarter-century after they nearly happened, the Oslo Accords have largely become another footnote in the frustrating quest for Arab-Israeli peace in the Middle East...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
11
A PROGRAM THAT ENCOURAGES YOU TO PLAY ALONG: PBS' 'THE GREAT AMERICAN READ' By David Hinckley
 
 
If any campaign can cross party lines this summer, it should be the one PBS has launched: It wants us to read books...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
9
'THE MINIATURIST' IS AS BEAUTIFUL AS IT IS CRYPTIC By David Hinckley
 
 
A dozen scenes in The Miniaturist, the TV adaptation of Jessie Burton’s best-selling 2014 novel, look as if they could have been photoshopped directly from a Vermeer painting...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
9
'THE DEUCE' RETURNS, A FEW YEARS AHEAD By David Hinckley
 
 
For sheer non-stop action, not even an Ultimate Fighting showdown can match the Tenderloin district of New York in the 1970s...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
8
'REL' COULD BE ONE OF THE FIRST OF THE FALL SHOWS TO FALL By David Hinckley
 
 
Lil Rel Howery isn’t the first standup comedian to mix elements of his life with elements of his act and serve it up as a sitcom. He also isn’t the first for whom the recipe doesn’t quite work out...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
7
'IRON FIST' IS STILL STRUGGLING ON NETFLIX By David Hinckley
 
 
Marvel still hasn’t quite figured out what to do with Iron Fist...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
4
'THE PURGE' IS A WORRISOME CHOICE TO AIR IN SUCH UNEASY TIMES By David Hinckley
 
 
Most people agree that the way to enhance the quality of life on Earth doesn’t involve thinning the herd...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
4
'MAYANS MC' DEBUTS AND IS WORTH SOME PATIENCE By David Hinckley
 
 
After a short and rather unsatisfying visit to the Middle Ages, Kurt Sutter is returning to his comfort zone of contemporary violent California motorcycle gangs. Er, clubs...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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.
 
 
New From TVWW

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'
By Ed Bark
 
 
 
 
Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver
By Christy Slewinski
 
 
 
 
'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy
By Noel Holston
 
 
 
 

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
 
 
 
 

This Day in TV History

1957: Julie Andrews Stars in 'Cinderella'
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