More and more people are joining a consensus that loyal Breaking Bad fans have known all along: we just might just be watching the best TV drama ever...

2012

Sep

AN APPOINTMENT TO VIEW, A DESIRE TO BINGE By Mark Bianculli

When watching an intentionally serialized piece of art, is it better to delay or to demand? To wait, or not to wait?...

2011

Mar

KARL PILKINGTON ON SCIENCE CHANNEL'S 'AN IDIOT ABROAD': IDIOT, YES, BUT SAVANT, TOO By Mark Bianculli

Saturday's Science Channel marathon showing of An Idiot Abroad (2:30-11 p.m. ET) gives viewers the chance to catch up on episodes they missed, or to be introduced, in one massive dose, to a TV travel host with a unique difference. He hates to travel...

2010

Oct

PLAYING 'WHERE'S WALDO?,' AND 'PEACE TRAIN,' AT JON STEWART'S RALLY By Mark Bianculli

There I stood, tightly packed in a sea of people, watching some musical number or other in the opening hour of the "Rally to Restore Sanity And/or Fear," when suddenly, from behind, a man dressed as Waldo (as in "Where's Waldo?") came crowd-surfing slowly over my head. But that, believe it or not, was not the unusual part...

2010

Sep

IN THE 'TENTH INNING' OF PBS'S 'BASEBALL,' KEN BURNS PITCHES SOME FRESH HISTORY By Mark Bianculli

Let me begin this article the way I imagine Ken Burns would want me to -- with some context. In 1993, William Jefferson Clinton was sworn in as the 42nd President of the United States. In the Middle East, PLO leader Yasser Arafat signed a peace agreement with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. In Walpole, NH, and in New York City, filmmaker Ken Burns was putting the finishing touches on his definitive 18-hour documentary about America's pastime, Baseball. And in Philadelphia...

2010

Aug

AT THE EMMYS, THE WINNER IS... FIRST-TIME HOST JIMMY FALLON By Mark Bianculli

About twenty seconds into last night's 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards on NBC, I was dreading that it was going to be a long night. Twenty seconds later, I was on the edge of my seat laughing. And so I remained for the rest of the hilarious and energetic opening number, which seemed to validate what I've said for years...

2010

Aug

PREDICTING THE EMMYS -- TAKE TWO By Mark Bianculli

"The Son Also Criticizes" takes a look at the 2010 Emmy Awards...

2010

Jan

GUEST BLOG #105: MARK BIANCULLI TALKS TV -- OR, THE SON ALSO CRITICIZES By Mark Bianculli

[Bianculli here -- DAVID Bianculli here, that is: I'm even more proud than usual to introduce the newest writer in our ever-expanding TV WORTH WATCHING stable: He's Mark Bianculli, my son. He grew up watching quality TV (how could he not?), was a TV critic for his college paper, and the same week I launched this website in 2007, he moved to Hollywood, hoping to write for television rather than about it. Until that happens, I've persuaded him to join us here...]

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Mark Bianculli

Mark Bianculli is based in Los Angeles and is a writer for CBS's Unforgettable. He has a new film screenplay probing the panopticon techno-culture and the paranormal called The Waiting, coming from Warner Brothers in 2013.

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