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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2018
Aug
31
'TOM CLANCY'S JACK RYAN' GIVES AMAZON A MONEY-ON-THE-SCREEN GRIPPER By Ed Bark
 
 
The money quote for Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan comes at the pivotal midpoint of an eventually high voltage Episode 1...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
25
MEN AT WORK? IN THE ONGOING #METOO WAVE, NOT SO MUCH AND NOT SURPRISINGLY SO By Ed Bark
 
 
For decade upon decade, television networks maled it in, mostly with white men...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
22
BRENDAN GLEESON REMAINS A CUT ABOVE IN SEASON 2 OF AUDIENCE NETWORK'S MR. MERCEDES By Ed Bark
 
 
The pace is deliberate at best, and in full-dawdle at times, as Season 2 of the Audience network’s Mr. Mercedes begins just a bit before the first one left off...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
20
ACORN TV'S 'MYSTERY ROAD' IS NOT QUITE ON TRACK, DESPITE THE ESTIMABLE PRESENCE OF JUDY DAVIS By Ed Bark
 
 
Judy Davis’ Emmy Award-winning performance as Judy Garland in a 2001 ABC miniseries remains one of television’s greatest ever. So where she goes next, I try to follow...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
15
TELEVISION'S REBOOT/REBIRTH MANIA By Ed Bark
 
 
Your friendly content provider reviewed all of the following in their original incarnations. And now here they come again to offer another whack...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
12
SEASON TWO OF 'GET SHORTY' IMPROVES ON THE FIRST WHILE AGAIN GIVING EPIX A BOOSTER SHOT By Ed Bark
 
 
Two of last year’s very best first-year drama series, HBO’s The Deuce and Epix’s Get Shorty, received total bypasses from Emmy voters last month...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
7
'FRONTLINE' PUTS NAMES TO FACES IN 'DOCUMENTING HATE: CHARLOTTESVILLE' By Ed Bark
 
 
Charlottesville, VA, former home of Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe, may never again be primarily known for that...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
7
WGN AMERICA'S IMPORTED 'CARTER' GIVES JERRY O'CONNELL SOMETHING TO DO By Ed Bark
 
 
Dripping with likability but yet to land The Big One, Jerry O’Connell takes the work where he can get it...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
1
SEASON 2 OF USA'S 'THE SINNER' AGAIN MAKES A STRONG CASE FOR ITSELF By Ed Bark
 
 
Season 1 of USA network’s The Sinner took the who out of whodunit and replaced it with why...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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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
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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