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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2016
Oct
27
DOCS IN SMOCKS FIGHT THESE BATTLES IN CBS' BUNKER HILL-SET ‘PURE GENIUS’ By Ed Bark
 
 
The prognosis for a solid, quality drama series is at least cautiously optimistic when Jason Katims is at the controls...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Oct
27
MCHALE'S NADIR -- AS THE STAR OF CBS' NEW ‘THE GREAT INDOORS’ By Ed Bark
 
 
Ageism isn’t only aimed at today’s elders. In the sad case of CBS’ The Great Indoors (Thursday at 8:30 p.m. ET), it can also be applied to millennials...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Oct
24
LEBLANC'S LIKEABLE IN CBS' 'MAN WITH A PLAN' By Ed Bark
 
 
There’s nothing new under the conventional sitcom sun in CBS’ Man With A Plan. This doesn’t unduly matter for this amiable, amusing outing fronted by everybody’s favorite Friend, Matt LeBlanc...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Oct
21
WHAT THE DEUCE? BBC AMERICA'S 'DIRK GENTLY'S HOLISTIC DETECTIVE AGENCY' CAREENS INTO VIEW By Ed Bark
 
 
Trying to comprehend the intentionally absurd goings-on in Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency may be completely beside the point...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Oct
20
LAURIE'S BACK AND HULU'S GOT HIM IN ‘CHANCE’ By Ed Bark
 
 
Having played a surly doc on Fox’s long-running House and recently a villainous billionaire businessman in AMC’s acclaimed The Night Manager, estimable Hugh Laurie is back in M.D. mode for Hulu’s Chance...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Oct
18
REVIEWING AMAZON PRIME'S ‘GOLIATH’ AFTER VIEWING ALL EIGHT EPISODES By Ed Bark
 
 
Given all the loose-ended, bizarro world TV dramas currently in play, it turns out to be a distinct pleasure to review a limited series with a linear storyline and a definitive ending...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Oct
16
THERE ARE NO FREE AGENTS IN EPIX' CIA DRAMA 'BERLIN STATION' By Ed Bark
 
 
Berlin Station has both an authentic look and feel. As with most cloak-and-dagger dramas, there’s a lot of following around while the mind games escalate and the sound track remains stuck in the key of ominous. Berlin Station so far looks like a series worth riding out...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Oct
15
NICK NOLTE IS FORMER PRESIDENT ‘GRAVES’ AND HE SEEMS ODDLY FAMILIAR By Ed Bark
 
 
Nick Nolte is tattered, battered but still standing -- both as an actor and as former Republican President Richard Graves...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Oct
13
'FALLING WATER' CONTINUES ON THE USA NETWORK'S NEWLY DARKER PATH By Ed Bark
 
 
Don’t be misled by the ill-fitting title, because USA’s Falling Water has nothing to do with either a very elementary weather forecast or a cooling, summertime slip ’n’ slide park...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Oct
11
ABC'S 'AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE' HAS TOO MUCH FATTY MATERIAL By Ed Bark
 
 
ABC’s second coming of Roseanne -- and its 10th “nuclear family” comedy this season -- deploys heavy-handed humor dispensed by a fat wife and mother of three...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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