Lavishly praised by TV critics but still ludicrously ignored by major awards bodies, FX’s The Americans if anything is better than ever in the early stages of Season 4...

2016

Mar

WARBURTON'S FORTE GETS A NICE WORKOUT IN NBC'S 'CROWDED' By Ed Bark

Watching and listening to Patrick Warburton snap off deadpan one-liners can be a saving grace of any not-so-great sitcom. It also helps to have talented Carrie Preston in the house as Warburton’s newest TV wife...

2016

Mar

WGN AMERICA'S 'UNDERGROUND' IS AN IMPERFECT BUT WORTHY DRAMA SET IN A VERY IMPERFECT WORLD By Ed Bark

WGN America, official network of the one-word, scripted drama series, is following Salem, the since canceled Manhattan and Outsiders with the pre-Civil War Underground...

2016

Mar

CNN CONTINUES TO BE THE NEWS LEADER IN GIVING DONALD TRUMP FREE PASSES By Ed Bark

No network has been more slavish in its coverage of Donald Trump than CNN. That’s probably stating the obvious at this point, even though rival networks certainly haven’t scrimped on the free time they’ve given the oft-bombastic Republican Party frontrunner...

2016

Feb

CUBA GOODING, JR. TALKS 'THE PEOPLE V. OJ SIMPSON' AND WHAT LED HIM TO IT By Ed Bark

Twenty years ago, Cuba Gooding, Jr. won a best supporting actor Oscar as pro football receiver Rod “Show me the money” Tidwell in Jerry Maguire. He followed that up with another hit feature film, 1997’s As Good As It Gets...

2016

Feb

NETFLIX MAKES ROOM FOR 'FULLER HOUSE' (AND WELL, WHY NOT?) By Ed Bark

It’s safe to say -- boy, is it ever -- that the revival of Full House is not being greeted by the TV critic community with the same bow-down reverence reserved for Arrested Development’s sacred second coming...

2016

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GETTING HIS DUE: FATS DOMINO MAKES HIS 'AMERICAN MASTERS' DEBUT By Ed Bark

Given contemporary sensibilities, he might have first made the scene today as “Plus-Sized” Domino. But Antoine “Fats” Domino, Jr. embraced his nickname from the start and has never tried to shed it with any Weight Watchers commercials...

2016

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'LOVE' HURTS IN JUDD APATOW'S NEW NETFLIX SERIES By Ed Bark

It’s been standard TV sitcom procedure for the loud, plus-sized guy -- OK, the blustering fatso -- to get the slimmer, pretty girl. This time it’s a thin, plain-faced, bespectacled, soft-spoken nebbish who eventually becomes alluring to a messed-up beauty...

2016

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HULU MINISERIES IS A TIME TRIP TO SAVE JFK By Ed Bark

A handsome, divorced high school English teacher seeks to stop the assassination of President John F. Kennedy by time-traveling through a mysterious, secret portal in a retro Lisbon, Maine diner...

2016

Feb

'BETTER CALL SAUL' AGAIN SLOWLY UNPEELS THE ORIGIN STORY By Ed Bark

Two very verbal, slow-cooked episodes open Season 2 of AMC’s Better Call Saul. Depending on your tolerance for extended dialogues, they’re either deliciously chewy or perhaps in need of a little pick-me-up...

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