HBO's Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, premiering Sunday night at 8 ET, is an extraordinary investigative documentary with the power to provoke anger, astonishment and any number of other strong emotions...

2015

Mar

ABC'S 'AMERICAN CRIME' SOARS ON THE STRENGTH OF ITS DARING, DAUNTING PREMISE By Ed Bark

Brace yourself for American Crime. This is one brave-ass series. Which couldn’t be said for a good long while about a Big Four broadcast network drama...

2015

Mar

THE BY-THE-BOOK ABCS OF 'CSI,' WITH OSCAR-WINNER PATRICIA ARQUETTE TAKING THE FOURTH By Ed Bark

There’s no need to feel unduly sorry for Patricia Arquette. Yes, she’s the newly crowned Best Supporting Actress Oscar-winner for Boyhood. And now, just when all these new doors are opening, she’s tied to a previous commitment to another formulaic CBS crime series. It’s a nice “problem” to have, though...

2015

Feb

LAND OF DISTINCTION: FOX'S 'THE LAST MAN ON EARTH' By Ed Bark

Keep the title in mind. It’s The Last Man On Earth, not the last human. So if you’re wondering what star Will Forte is going to do with all that post-apocalyptic time on his hands...well, there’s no need for that. Not even in the short run...

2015

Feb

ABC'S 'SECRETS AND LIES' IS A MURDER MYSTERY WITHOUT A STRONG ENOUGH PULSE By Ed Bark

The media hounds are omnipresent in the first two episodes of ABC’s Secrets and Lies. Not the “Social Media” ones, but the traditional pack of salivating, question-shouting curs. They bedevil “person of interest” Ben Crawford...

2015

Feb

WE TV'S SUPER-LUDICROUS 'SEX BOX': AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS, UM, COME? By Ed Bark

With the new WEtv series Sex Box, TV critics are given more big, juicy low-hanging fruit to feast on than a giraffe in an apple orchard...

2015

Feb

LATEST REMAKE OF 'THE ODD COUPLE' IS GROUNDS FOR A QUICK CONSCIOUS UNCOUPLING By Ed Bark

The Odd Couple has already greatly succeeded as a Broadway play, a hit movie starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau and a long-running TV series with Tony Randall and Jack Klugman. CBS’ The Odd Couple is more in line with ABC’s The New Odd Couple, a deservedly short-lived 1982 sitcom...

2015

Feb

WEIGHING IN ON THE CURIOUS CASE OF BRIAN WILLIAMS By Ed Bark

For years, Williams augmented his anchoring of the NBC Nightly News with laugh-seeking guest appearances on late night talk shows and a hosting stint on Saturday Night Live. Now it seems as if the whole world is laughing at his expense. Can he survive? Should he survive?...

2015

Feb

THE TRUE CRIME GENRE HITS A NEW HIGH WITH HBO'S 'THE JINX' By Ed Bark

Can true crime trump even True Detective? When it’s told this compellingly, you can make a very strong case...

2015

Feb

ABC'S 'FRESH OFF THE BOAT' ADDS MORE DIVERSITY WHILE LABORING TO STAY AFLOAT By Ed Bark

ABC has a history of rewinding to the formative years of kids who survived their nuclear family upbringings without self-imploding. Next up is Fresh Off the Boat, the saga of chunky Eddie Huang’s fish-out-of-water travails, circa 1995...

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