Watching the new Roots, which would be one of the best TV things you could do this week, you’re reminded that in at least one important sense, it’s not about slavery at all. It’s about how individuals behave in a world where slavery happens to be an accepted institution...

2016

May

PERFECT FOR MEMORIAL DAY -- 'TED TALKS: WAR & PEACE' By David Hinckley

Our attention to Memorial Day gets spottier as more of our wars fall into grey areas, and PBS reflects that unease with TED Talks: War & Peace...

2016

May

GUY PEARCE STARS AS PRIVATE EYE IN ACORN'S 'JACK IRISH' By David Hinckley

If you’re ready for a short binge toward the end of the holiday weekend, you could do a lot worse than the Australian series Jack Irish, which has been brought to these shores by Acorn TV...

2016

May

‘AMERICAN MASTERS’ RECALLS THE COUNTRY MUSIC SUPERGROUP, THE HIGHWAYMEN By David Hinckley

The more you like country music, the more you’re apt to like "The Highwaymen: Friends Till The End," a PBS American Masters documentary...

2016

May

JESSI COLTER REMEMBERS THE MYTHS ABOUT THE 'OUTLAW' HIGHWAYMEN By David Hinckley

What Jessi Colter remembers about the Highwaymen is how sane and normal they so often were. How’s that for shattering a few myths?...

2016

May

TIME TO TURN OUT THE LIGHTS ON 'NASHVILLE,’ BUT IS THE PARTY REALLY OVER? By David Hinckley

You can make a decent argument that in four seasons, ABC’s Nashville has said pretty much all of what it has to say. But if Wednesday’s episode is indeed the end of the series, I’m still going to miss it...

2016

May

JASON PATRIC REPLACES MATT DILLON: TRYING TO SURVIVE IN ‘WAYWARD PINES’ By David Hinckley

New faces don’t mean things have gotten any kinder and gentler in the rustic town of Wayward Pines, Idaho...

2016

May

GETTING FAST MONEY FOR A ‘CLEAN BREAK’ By David Hinckley

As a business plan, kidnapping so rarely works out. But that doesn’t always deter the desperate, and desperate seems to describe Frank Mallon in Clean Break...

2016

May

AMC TRANSLATES GRAPHIC NOVEL 'PREACHER' INTO A SERIES By David Hinckley

Adapting Garth Ennis’s Preacher for television has some of the same degree of difficulty as wrestling with God, so it’s impressive that after the first few episodes, the adapter team is still standing...

2016

May

HBO GOES 'ALL THE WAY' IN REVEALING THE COMPLEXITY OF LBJ By David Hinckley

The HBO Lyndon Johnson drama All the Way starts from the bold premise that the former President was larger than life, then proves it...

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