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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2018
Jun
21
JUST IN TIME FOR AWARDS SEASON: ON ‘THE AMERICANS’ AND SERIES FINALES By Alex Strachan
 
 
Endings are hard. We know this. They’re even harder, perhaps, when they have to put an exclamation mark on an entire series...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jun
8
ANTHONY BOURDAIN ON A LIFE HARD-LIVED: ‘ANOTHER TATTOO, ANOTHER THING YOU DID. ANOTHER PLACE YOU’VE BEEN’ By Alex Strachan
 
 
Is it possible to be both shaken and stirred at the same time? I know that feeling today...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jun
4
TV REMAKES: BEEN THERE, SEEN THAT — NOT THAT THERE’S NECESSARILY ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT By Alex Strachan
 
 
To hear some people tell it, the upcoming 2018-19 network TV season is the Year of the Remake — and they’re not far wrong...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
30
‘THE HANDMAID’S TALE’ AFTER MARGARET ATWOOD’S NOVEL: A FUTURE IMPERFECT FORETOLD By Alex Strachan
 
 
The Handmaid’s Tale isn’t treading uncharted emotional territory as it reaches the midpoint of its harrowing, nerve-inducing second season — not exactly, anyway...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
21
PBS' 'NATURE' SEASON FINALE: HOW HONEY BUN AND A CONSERVATIONIST FROM CALIFORNIA ARE FIGHTING TO PROTECT 'THE WORLD’S MOST WANTED ANIMAL' By Alex Strachan
 
 
Even by Nature’s standards, the pangolin is one weird critter...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
4
WHEN NOSTALGIA CLASHES WITH CONTEMPORARY REALITY: RECONCILING ‘I, SPY’ WITH BILL COSBY By Alex Strachan
 
 
It’s one of the toughest questions there is, as a fan. How do you separate an actor from the character he, or she, plays on TV? Can you separate the two? Is it even right to try to separate the two?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
30
PBS FRONTLINE’S ‘BLACKOUT IN PUERTO RICO’: TALES OF SOUND, FURY, SKULLDUGGERY By Alex Strachan
 
 
It might be hard for the last one out to please turn off the lights if the lights aren’t on to begin with...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
16
PBS' 'FRONTLINE' PORTRAIT OF ‘MCCAIN' IS A POLITICIAN DETERMINED TO SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER By Alex Strachan
 
 
Given the present state of affairs-of-state, one could be forgiven for thinking Arizona Sen. John Sidney McCain III is old news...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
10
PBS'S 'FRONTLINE,' "TRUMP’S TAKEOVER," SCRUTINIZES THE ‘FAUSTIAN BARGAIN’ BETWEEN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND DONALD TRUMP By Alex Strachan
 
 
How did he do it? How exactly did Donald John Trump seize control of the Republican Party — “a hostile takeover,” as one political insider describes it...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Mar
27
IN PRAISE OF ‘THE AMERICANS’ AND WHAT IT REVEALED ABOUT RUSSIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS DURING THE REAGAN YEARS By Alex Strachan
 
 
First of all, no spoilers. Not here, anyway...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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