Heisting storylines from both Twin Peaks and Dawson’s Creek, The CW’s Riverdale gives the venerable G-rated Archie Comics the most extreme makeover since Joaquin Phoenix went this way and that...

2017

Jan

LIFETIME'S ‘BEACHES’ REMAKE MOVES ALONG PRETTY SWIMMINGLY By Ed Bark

Wanna get away from it all without succumbing to the slogan of a certain airline? Lifetime’s re-do of Beaches provides a suitably weepy, sometimes sappy, overall entertaining escape...

2017

Jan

SEND IN THE CLOWN. FX'S 'BASKETS' IS BACK By Ed Bark

Could it be true, though, that this dourest of FX comedies also sucker punches its loyalists with a little heart and humanity? Yes, that’s right...

2017

Jan

CARRIE-ING ON WITH SEASON 6 OF ‘HOMELAND’ By Ed Bark

At the close of Homeland’s Season 5, CIA heroine Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) seemingly pulled the plug on the comatose Peter Quinn after reading his love letter to her. But the room brightened as she did so, signaling something or other...

2017

Jan

HBO HAS THE DAMNDEST THING IN 'THE YOUNG POPE' By Ed Bark

Holy smokes, what will American audiences make of The Young Pope, which already has been underway in Italy since late October?...

2017

Jan

FX'S ‘TABOO’ DOES A VERY SLOW BOIL By Ed Bark

Tom Hardy conveys menace with the ease of Jimmy Fallon conveying love to any and all of his late night guests. So that’s certainly not the problem with FX’s explicitly profane Taboo...

2017

Jan

DOUBLE REQUIEM: HBO'S ‘BRIGHT LIGHTS’ SHINES UPON DEBBIE REYNOLDS, CARRIE FISHER By Ed Bark

It’s highly unfortunate, to say the least, that startling events prompted HBO to move up the premiere of this intimate documentary. It’s also commendable to do so...

2017

Jan

NETFLIX HITS A SWEET (AND SPICY) SPOT WITH HISPANIC VERSION OF 'ONE DAY AT A TIME' By Ed Bark

Skepticism prevailed when Norman Lear let it be known, at a summer 2015 Television Critics Association panel, that “we’re talking about doing a Latina version of One Day At a Time. That could happen.” Yeah, like that was gonna happen...

2017

Jan

NBC'S ‘EMERALD CITY’ TRADES IN OOHS, OZ AND MAYHEM By Ed Bark

NBC’s visually striking Game of Oz, er, Emerald City (Fri., 9 p.m. ET), is about cutthroat power-seekers and their oft-brutal methods in a down-and-dirty but nicely costumed land where a feared flying object casts a giant shadow...

2017

Jan

NBC NEWS LANDS MEGYN KELLY, AND WILL HAVE MUCH FOR HER TO DO By Ed Bark

After a high profile year in which she feuded with Donald Trump and joined the chorus against deposed Fox News Channel founder Roger Ailes, star player Megyn Kelly is leaving the network that put her in the spotlight and joining forces with NBC News...

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