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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2017
Feb
19
HBO'S 'CRASHING': A "SMALL" COMEDY MEASURES UP By Ed Bark
 
 
HBO’s Crashing looks at New York’s oft-dispiriting stand up comic sub-world, with Pete Holmes playing himself and determined to make it after all...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
17
HBO'S ‘BIG LITTLE LIES’: ALL-STAR ANGST AMID A DANGLED DOUBLE MYSTERY By Ed Bark
 
 
Ample wine is consumed, but the glasses figuratively are half-empty in HBO’s very moody and sometimes draining Big Little Lies...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
15
‘DOUBT’ BOUNCES KATHERINE HEIGL OVER TO CBS By Ed Bark
 
 
Here comes Katherine Heigl again. All hasn’t gone as planned since she left Grey’s Anatomy in 2010 with the idea of becoming a movie star...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
8
FX GOES THOROUGHLY MONDO MARVEL -- AND BRILLIANTLY SO -- WITH ‘LEGION’ By Ed Bark
 
 
Even David Lynch might be stunned into submission by the beautifully hypnotic weirdness of Legion...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
4
‘24: LEGACY’ IS EVIDENCE THAT TIME'S UP By Ed Bark
 
 
At its very best, 24 rocked around its clock and remains Fox’s lone Emmy winner in the Best Drama Series category. That was for Season 5 back in 2006, when the show also logged its best Nielsen ratings...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
3
NETFLIX'S ‘SANTA CLARITA DIET’ OFFERS ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT ABSURDITY By Ed Bark
 
 
Getting grossed out by the first episode of Santa Clarita Diet is perfectly understandable. But don’t touch that dial, or whatever else you’re touching these days...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
2
‘SUPERIOR DONUTS’: ANOTHER SITCOM FIT ONLY FOR CBS By Ed Bark
 
 
CBS remains more set in its ways than a Bill Belichick press conference. he great majority of its drama series are crime-driven, and it’s still the only Big Four broadcast network clinging to laugh tracks -- with the lone exception of Life In Pieces...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Feb
1
NBC'S ‘POWERLESS’ PLUGS INTO THE (WHAT ELSE IS NEW?) SUPERHERO GENRE By Ed Bark
 
 
It’s possible, although not very probable, that superhero fatigue will set in at some point in our likely distant futures...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
29
EVEN MORE TWISTS AND TURNS IN LATEST 'WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION' By Ed Bark
 
 
Agatha Christie’s The Witness for the Prosecution has been around the block a few times since its original publication as Traitor Hands back in 1925...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
26
RIP MARY TYLER MOORE: DEC. 29, 1936 TO JAN. 25, 2017 By Ed Bark
 
 
Mary Tyler Moore never actually worked for a real-life local TV news team. It just seemed that way because of her indelible role as indomitable Mary Richards of Minneapolis’ WJM-TV...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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