With television drama, it’s not often that we get to say OMG, look what just splashed down. With Louie C.K.’s new Horace and Pete, we do. It's a 67-minute drama that C.K. posted on his website Saturday, without advance notice...

2016

Jan

FOX’S 'GREASE LIVE!' REMEMBERS THE '50S AS BUBBLY AND FIZZY FUN By David Hinckley

Fox’s Grease Live! this Sunday isn’t quite any of the things it’s nominally selling. That’s not a dismissal or a prejudgment. It just means viewers should assess it by what it’s really aiming to be, which is bubbly and fizzy fun...

2016

Jan

'YOU, ME AND THE APOCALYPSE'? ROB LOWE, A NUN AND 'CHRIST ON A BICYCLE'! By David Hinckley

You, Me and the Apocalypse puts the fun back into depressive television. NBC’s 10-part miniseries follows a bizarre bunch of people through what are billed as the last 34 days of civilization on the planet Earth...

2016

Jan

'OUTSIDERS' REVELS IN A BACKWOODS CLAN THAT'S 'ALMOST SHAKESPEARIAN' By David Hinckley

It would be convenient to see Outsiders as a lucky case of TV art imitating life, with a small Appalachian clan being forced by the Feds off the rugged mountain on which they have lived for 200 years...

2016

Jan

ANDREW DAVIES, TV'S MASTER CRAFTSMAN, TRIUMPHS AGAIN WITH 'WAR AND PEACE' By David Hinckley

Leo Tolstoy might have been surprised by a few of the scenes in the new television adaptation of War and Peace, just as Jane Austen might have been surprised 20 years ago by a few scenes in the television version of Pride & Prejudice...

2016

Jan

'DOWNTON ABBEY' RECAP, SEASON 6, EPISODE 4: CH-CH-CH-CH-CHANGES By David Hinckley

It’s official. The Downton Abbey world we knew is over. On Sunday night, in episode four of the sixth and final season, Mary said something complimentary about Edith...

2016

Jan

FOX'S 'LUCIFER': BORED WITH HELL, FINDS L.A. IS JUST THE FIT By David Hinckley

Like its title character, the new Fox drama Lucifer is having an identity crisis. That’s not fatal...

2016

Jan

SUPERSIZED CW SUPERHERO CAST GETS DOUBLEWIDE PREMIERE By David Hinckley

You don’t just need a scorecard to keep track of the players in the new CW series DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. You need a 64GB flash drive...

2016

Jan

BEN WHISHAW PLAYS RECKLESS AND RELUCTANT IN 'LONDON SPY' By David Hinckley

London Spy, a mystery series that kicks off at 10 p.m. ET Thursday on BBC America, will delight viewers who savor peeling the onion slowly...

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