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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2020
May
18
'DEAD STILL' IS A VICTORIAN MURDER MYSTERY FILLED WITH LAUGHS By David Hinckley
 
 
As possibly the most humorless man on television, Brock Blennerhasset (Michael Smiley) has found the perfect job. He takes formal portraits of the dead...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
17
'HIGHTOWN' MURDER TALE HAS LIVELY PROVINCETOWN AS BACKDROP By David Hinckley
 
 

Jackie Quinones spends her evenings walking through the streets of Provincetown snorting cocaine, drinking whatever someone puts in front of her... During the daytime she works in law enforcement... 

 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
17
CLASS WARFARE IN CLOSE QUARTERS – ON TV – WITH 'SNOWPIERCER' By David Hinckley
 
 
The title character of the new TNT drama, Snowpiercer, is a train that has been circling the Earth for almost seven years...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
16
'THE GREAT' MIGHT NOT BE HISTORICALLY ACCURATE, BUT IT'S DEFINITELY FUN TO WATCH By David Hinckley
 
 
Just a year after Helen Mirren portrayed Russia’s iconic ruler Catherine the Great, Catherine is back on TV with a startlingly different look...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
14
FOR THE MEANING OF "PROPHETIC," SEE 'COOPED UP' By David Hinckley
 
 
You’re never going to believe what was lying around in a box labeled “charming small films made in 2016 in Australia.”...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
12
A LOOK BACK AT 'THE HAPPY DAYS OF GARRY MARSHALL' By David Hinckley
 
 
We know they don’t make shows like Happy Days, Mork & Mindy or Laverne & Shirley any more...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
12
'A CONFESSION' ARRIVES ON BRITBOX By David Hinckley
 
 
As long as there are real-life crimes, television writers will never run out of miniseries material. And that’s okay, whenever the miniseries is as well told as A Confession...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
11
PBS' 'ASIAN AMERICANS' EXPLORES EXTRAORDINARY DETERMINATION AGAINST EXTREME PREJUDICE By David Hinckley
 
 
Long before the phrase “Chinese flu” gave some folks the green light to harass Asian Americans, a lot of other folks had been doing it anyway...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
10
'I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE' IS A GRIM TALE WITH STRONG PERFORMANCES – ESPECIALLY MARK RUFFALO By David Hinckley
 
 
HBO’s new miniseries I Know This Much Is True might cheer you up, but only by comparison...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
8
THE UPS AND DOWNS OF PARISIAN MUSIC CLUBS ON 'THE EDDY' By David Hinckley
 
 
The new Netflix series The Eddy is what we meant years ago when we described something as “a foreign film.”...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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