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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2017
Jun
27
‘TURN: WASHINGTON’S SPIES’ WRITES ITS FINAL CHAPTERS ON AMERICAN TV HISTORY By Alex Strachan
 
 
Much like the period it depicts, Turn: Washington’s Spies defied the odds to last as long as it did — four seasons, 40 episodes in all...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jun
20
WHERE TV MEETS MARGARET ATWOOD: I COME NOT TO BURY ‘THE HANDMAID’S TALE’ BUT TO PRAISE IT By Alex Strachan
 
 
Predicting TV awards is a fool’s game at the best of times, but this year’s just-announced shortlist for the 33rd Annual Television Critics Association Awards is not just a window into the TV industry as it stands today but also a window into where we are as a society...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jun
12
HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THIS SEASON OF ‘FARGO’ By Alex Strachan
 
 
Sometimes, while watching a truly inspired hour of television, one is moved on an intensely personal, hard-to-explain level that defies easy categorization...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jun
8
FROM ‘ONE LOVE MANCHESTER’ TO ‘AMERICA’S GOT TALENT,’ BRINGING A MUCH-NEEDED RAY OF JOY AND HOPE TO PRIMETIME TV By Alex Strachan
 
 
Watching the One Love Manchester benefit concert this past weekend for the victims of the May 22 bombing outside Manchester Arena in the UK, I couldn’t help but be reminded of the healing balm of music in troubled times...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
May
30
RETURN TO SENDER: REVISITING ‘TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN’ By Alex Strachan
 
 
I hit the wall — literally — in episode three. I may yet stick it out for the entire 18, but as of right now, that looks unlikely...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
May
23
LIVE TV IN THE MODERN AGE — AN ALTERNATELY SAD, UPLIFTING, AND BAFFLING NIGHT OF TV By Alex Strachan
 
 
Even by 2017 standards, it was a strange night of TV, but that is what TV viewing — the old-fashioned sitting-in-front-of-the-family-set kind — has become...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
May
14
'AMAZING RACE' DEFIES ODDS, EARNS RENEWAL By Alex Strachan
 
 
The Amazing Race will live to run another race, after all. CBS’s pre-upfronts announcement late last week that the 13-time Emmy Award-winning series will return for a milestone 30th season...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
May
9
ABC GOES BACK TO BASICS TO REVIVE ‘AMERICAN IDOL’ By Alex Strachan
 
 
Hindsight is 20/20 — pun intended in this case since we’re talking about ABC. The Alphabet network’s decision to revive American Idol is both timely and, in this correspondent’s opinion, shrewd...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
May
8
PREPPING FOR 'TWIN PEAKS': WHY WE WATCHED, WHY WE CARED AND WHICH EPISODE, IF YOU ONLY HAVE TIME FOR ONE, TO WATCH AGAIN By Alex Strachan
 
 
Twin Peaks was the original 13-episode drama...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
27
‘THE CIRCUS’ HAS MOVED WITH THE TIMES By Alex Strachan
 
 
The original idea was a one-off, or at least that was the intention at the time...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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