Many years ago, I stayed at a kibbutz in Israel's Golan Heights with a clear view of Syria sprawled out below, as far as the eye could see, predominantly flat agricultural lands. Tensions were high...

2019

Sep

'AMERICA'S GOT TALENT': IT'S A SEASON FOR PRODIGIES By Alex Strachan

America’s Got Talent has been a balm for troubled times ever since it first bowed all those years ago, but this summer, in particular, has thrown a spotlight on just how refreshing hope and optimism really are...

2019

Sep

I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE AND IT IS ‘BETTER THAN US’ By Alex Strachan

Error 404. It’s the software update that gets you every time...

2019

Aug

‘MINDHUNTER’ ALL THAT AND MORE IN INTENSE, TIGHTLY WOUND SECOND SEASON By Alex Strachan

This is a review that asks — and hopefully answers — the big-picture questions, such as whether Mindhunter’s second act lives up to the promise of the first, for those who appreciated it, and whether it will change the minds of those who sampled the first season and found it wanting...

2019

Aug

AGT'S ODE TO SUMMER JOY FOR TROUBLED TIMES By Alex Strachan

Silly question: Might America's Got Talent, or AGT to the converted, be the single most important program on television right now?...

2019

Aug

'BETTER CALL SAUL,' 'FLEABAG,' AND DAVID MILCH — TV CRITICS HAVE THEIR SAY By Alex Strachan

The Television Critics Association Awards have always been something of an outlier where the Emmys are concerned...

2019

Jul

NETFLIX’S ‘THE GREAT HACK:’ HOW YOUR PERSONAL DATA WAS HARVESTED AND SWUNG THE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN By Alex Strachan

Cambridge Analytica, John Oliver noted in a Last Week Tonight monologue last season, is not the Latin, scientific name for John Oliver, sadly. Would that it was...

2019

Jul

THE 71ST EMMY NOMINATIONS: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY By Alex Strachan

Great Odin's raven! This past weekend, mere days after Game of Thrones was shut out of this year's Television Critics Association nominations, a prominent UK reviewer made a comment regarding another long-running sword 'n' sandals TV fantasy. Vikings, he said, had succumbed to "season-seven Game of Thrones" syndrome...

2019

Jul

'BLACK MIRROR' CONTINUES TO RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, REFLECTING THE BEST — AND WORST — SIDES OF OUR NATURE By Alex Strachan

For all the different ways Black Mirror depicts its dystopian worlds...one theme keeps emerging: For all technology’s advances, and some of them are truly astonishing, those advances always bring with them unintended consequences...

2019

Jun

THREE TO SEE: THE BEST RECENT NORDIC NOIR ON NETFLIX By Alex Strachan

Every so often, a Nordic noir series comes along that’s so compelling and emotionally wrenching, it almost takes the breath away...

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