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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2018
Sep
21
NETFLIX'S 'MANIAC' HAS A MIND OF ITS OWN (BOY, DOES IT EVER) By Ed Bark
 
 
Making sense of Netflix’s wildly careening Maniac is entirely up to you, but don’t worry, be happy that there’s something so adventurous to behold...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
21
MONK SEE, MONK RE-DO: FROM THE CREATOR OF THAT SERIES COMES NETFLIX'S 'THE GOOD COP' By Ed Bark
 
 
Monk creator Andy Breckman clearly doesn’t mind repeating himself...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
19
NBC'S 'I FEEL BAD' NEEDS A GOOD DEAL OF IMPROVEMENT By Ed Bark
 
 
We live in times when psyches are raw, friendships are being tested, and rubbing someone the wrong way is a clear and present danger...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
18
FROM START TO FINISH, AN 'SNL'-CENTRIC EMMYS CEREMONY By Ed Bark
 
 
Monday’s 70th annual prime-time Emmys telecast is history. Or perhaps you thought you were watching Saturday Night Live...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
14
MORE ROCKET FUEL, PLEASE: MARS IS THE GOAL LINE AND SEAN PENN THE GO-TO GUY IN HULU'S 'THE FIRST' By Ed Bark
 
 
Sean Penn’s handful of small-screen credits have been inconsequential at best, save for perhaps a two-episode guest actor stint on Friends back in 2001. But now here he comes in a big way...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
14
THE DOWNFALL OF LESLIE MOONVES By Ed Bark
 
 
Either then or certainly not now, it’s doubtful anyone ever said this about Leslie Moonves: “He is truly the all-American boy, not only on-camera but off-camera..."...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
14
HIS OWN WORST ENEMY: NORM MACDONALD NONETHELESS STUMBLES ONTO NETFLIX By Ed Bark
 
 
Given the dumb, insensitive things he’s said of late, the easy way out is to say that Netflix’s Norm Macdonald Has a Show stars a boob who shouldn’t be allowed to have one. Then again, here’s a guy who’s never really expressed himself cogently...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
9
CARREY SHINES THROUGH, OCCASIONALLY DARKLY, IN SHOWTIME'S ONE-OF-A-KIND 'KIDDING' By Ed Bark
 
 
This has been a big year for Fred Rogers, who’s been extolled in a first-rate documentary film and is now reprised in fragile form via Jim Carrey as Mr. Pickles...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
9
'REL' IS AN UNFORTUNATE THROWBACK THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN THROWN BACK By Ed Bark
 
 
The first new fall series from a Big Four broadcasting network is broad, loud, stereotypical and affixed with a howling laugh track. What were you thinking, Fox?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
4
AT BEST A POWDER KEG, 'THE PURGE' INFESTS THE USA NETWORK By Ed Bark
 
 
It’s Purge night in America. Do you know where your weapons are? Or would you rather sacrifice yourself for a cult leader’s visions of greater glory?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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