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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2020
Jun
9
'STICKS AND STONES' AND OFFICE POLITICS By David Hinckley
 
 
Imagine The Office if it weren’t a comedy, and you’ve got a rough idea of Sticks and Stones...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jun
5
'TRACKERS,' THE SOUTH AFRICAN HIT THRILLER, ARRIVES ON CINEMAX By David Hinckley
 
 
Cinemax tosses another shovelful of red meat to action-TV fans with Trackers, a South African series that launches Friday...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
31
'LAUREL CANYON' IS A WONDERFUL REMEMBRANCE OF REMARKABLE MUSIC By David Hinckley
 
 
Laurel Canyon, a docuseries on the music from that fondly remembered Los Angeles outpost of yesteryear, hits the right chords...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
29
THE FAULT OF 'SPACE FORCE,' DEAR VIEWERS, IS NOT IN THE STARS By David Hinckley
 
 
The cast outshines the story in Space Force, a new Netflix comedy that launches on Friday...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
29
'MYTHIC QUEST: QUARANTINE' AND TV IN THE TIME OF – AND AFTER – COVID-19 By David Hinckley
 
 
Scary as it sounds to say out loud, television has been one of our national unifying and stabilizing forces during this pandemic thing...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
25
'GRANT' RELATES THE STORY OF A SUCCESSFUL GENERAL AND RELUCTANT PRESIDENT By David Hinckley
 
 
Restoring the reputation of Ulysses S. Grant may not sit high on your history priority list. Even if it doesn’t, the three-night miniseries Grant...makes for a compelling watch and a surprisingly interesting story...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
25
KNOWING THE MEANING OF 'BARKSKINS' IS JUST THE BEGINNING OF THIS FASCINATING DRAMA By David Hinckley
 
 
If you want a clue to where a new series called Barkskins is going, it helps first to figure out what “barkskins” means...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
21
A MURDER MYSTERY, 'PENANCE,' ON SUNDANCE NOW By David Hinckley
 
 
Rosalie Douglas’s world has been shattered to pieces. So imagine how happy she is when a stranger unexpectedly arrives with a glue gun. Unless, of course, it’s really a mallet...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
21
NAT GEO SHARES THE BRAVE STORY OF 'HEROES OF THE SKY: THE REAL MIGHTY EIGHTH' By David Hinckley
 
 
As America struggles to wind down another war that has not gone well, National Geographic is using the Memorial Day weekend to remind us of those who fought the last war that did...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
19
AN APPRECIATION: KEN OSMOND 1943 - 2020 By David Hinckley
 
 
I have a friend, Joe, who argued years ago that the most important character on television for a kid growing up in the late 1950s and early 1960s was...Eddie Haskell from Leave It To Beaver...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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