Two of our critics had wildly different reactions to the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony. Eric Gould, for example, called it a "spectacular tribute to British history," and asked what in the world was left out: perhaps only a song and dance tribute to the Great Plague? Or Monty Python?...

2012

Jul

SEINFELD DRIVES ONTO THE WEB WITH 'COMEDIANS IN CARS GETTING COFFEE' By Eric Gould

Jerry Seinfeld is back on Thursday nights — sort of — in a new recurring web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee...

2012

Jul

HE WON. WE'RE STILL WINNING By Eric Gould

While Breaking Bad takes needed time to reset the storyline for its final collisions, it still delivers some of the best television of the year...

2012

Jul

UNDER THE COVERS OF DESIRE: INSIDE THE ROMANCE NOVEL By Eric Gould

According to the PBS POV documentary Guilty Pleasures, a romance novel is sold somewhere in the world every four seconds. For some, they can’t come off the press fast enough...

2012

Jul

REALITY IS IN GOOD CARE ON 'NY MED' By Eric Gould

Here's a documentary series that shows we don't need all the scripted chaos of a TV emergency room. There's plenty of it going on at an actual hospital near you...

2012

Jul

MARINA ABRAMOVIC: IN THE NAME OF ART By Eric Gould

As cryptic as modern art can be, performance art can be the most challenging. And it can be the most moving. Both sides are revealed in one artist's work...

2012

Jun

CHARLIE AND LOUIE: THE AGONY AND ECSTASY By Eric Gould

Call it a tale of two men behaving badly. Both can be brash. But on one hand there is wit, ingenuity and depth. And on the other, there isn't...

2012

Jun

'WILFRED': ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED? By Eric Gould

Elijah Wood returns in Wilfred, a guy with a dog who appears to him as a talking nihilist. Everyone else just sees a cute mutt...

2012

Jun

'GIRLS': GOOD TO THE LAST By Eric Gould

The Girls finale airs Sunday at 10:30 p.m. ET, on HBO and writer/director/star Lena Dunham swerves the bus sharply — and smartly — to set the series up for its next season...

2012

Jun

BRITISH DETECTIVE SHOW 'THORNE' GOES DEEP INTO THE DARK By Eric Gould

Throne, a smart, two-part detective thriller from Britain, follows an obsessed detective who's after a deranged killer, but manages to make the genre fresh...

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