The same way rap started as a bad-boy outlier and today has become the beat of mainstream popular music, science fiction seems to have taken over the movie industry...

2018

Apr

NEW SEASON OF 'THE HANDMAID'S TALE' ARRIVES TODAY ON HULU By David Hinckley

The Handmaid’s Talebecame television’s sleeper hit last year, with good reason, and Season 2 leads off with the show’s biggest asset: lots and lots of Elisabeth Moss...

2018

Apr

'NOVA' ASKS 'WHAT ARE ANIMALS SAYING?' By David Hinckley

PBS’s Nova starts an ambitious new series Wednesday by asking one of the eternal questions: What exactly are animals saying to us? Or to each other?...

2018

Apr

'ARCHER' RETURNS AND HASN'T LOST ANY OF ITS BRILLIANT FOOLISHNESS By David Hinckley

FXX’s Archer heads into Season 9 the way it started back in Season 1: It’s one of the funniest shows on television...

2018

Apr

ANOTHER 'GENIUS' IS EXPLORED BY NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC WITH 'PICASSO' By David Hinckley

Pablo Picasso always knew he was going to be a famous artist. The second edition of National Geographic’s Genius series fills in some of the other things he became...

2018

Apr

A UNIQUE 'TIMELESS' ABOUT A UNIQUELY TALENTED MAN By David Hinckley

NBC’s Timeless sends its time-travelers to old San Antonio Sunday. But instead of the obvious moment, which would be the 1836 siege of the Alamo...

2018

Apr

A MEDITATIVE SALUTE TO MOTHER EARTH WITH 'SYMPHONY FOR OUR WORLD' By David Hinckley

To the relatively short list of wordless television shows, add a lovely Nat Geo Wild special called Symphony for Our World...

2018

Apr

WHETHER OR NOT YOU BELIEVE IN CLIMATE CHANGE, 'DECODING THE WEATHER MACHINE' IS IMPORTANT TV WORTH WATCHING By David Hinckley

Many years before LOL and OMG and LMK and the rest of today’s social media shorthand, I was introduced to a newspaper business acronym: BBI...

2018

Apr

AS 'SCANDAL' ENDS, A LOOK BACK AT SHOWS GONE TOO SOON – OR NOT By David Hinckley

Thursday’s final episode of Scandal, high-octane though it no doubt will be, reminds me of an odd truth about television series: More of them run too long than end too soon...

2018

Apr

'CIVILIZATIONS' REVEALS THE HISTORY OF HUMANITY By David Hinckley

It’s hard to imagine biting off a bigger, denser chunk of human history than PBS does with its ultra-ambitious new nine-part series Civilizations...

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