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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2016
Jun
23
'QUEEN OF THE SOUTH': A SOAP FOR ADRENALINE JUNKIES By David Hinckley
 
 
Outrageous excess is the least we expect from USA’s new drama Queen of the South, and to its credit, the first episode delivers...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jun
23
BBC’S ‘THIRTEEN’ EXPLORES REENTRY OF A LONG-MISSING CHILD By David Hinckley
 
 
Television’s fascination with disappeared children takes a dark, intense turn in Thirteen...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jun
22
CBS’ 'AMERICAN GOTHIC' ECHOES 'THE FAMILY' AND IS ‘BRAINDEAD' BIZARRE By David Hinckley
 
 
So this prominent, respectable New England family has to cover up inconvenient details of an awful crime, because someone’s running for high political office and those details could derail those aspirations...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jun
20
'UNREAL' REVEALS ABSURD INNER WORKINGS OF REALITY TV By David Hinckley
 
 
The title of Lifetime’s hit drama is UnREAL, not Impossible...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jun
19
NAT GEO ADDRESSES ELEPHANT SURVIVAL IN 'MIND OF A GIANT' By David Hinckley
 
 
Elephants are equipped to survive every challenge except us. But because we slaughter close to a hundred elephants every day to sell their tusks for the ivory, it’s possible the elephant might not survive at all...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jun
19
JIM GAFFIGAN CHEWS UP EVERYTHING BUT THE SCENERY AS HIS SHOW RETURNS TO TV LAND By David Hinckley
 
 
Jim Gaffigan opens his second season on TV Land by defiantly continuing to shatter all the rules of contemporary comedy...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jun
14
TNT'S ‘ANIMAL KINGDOM’ IS FILLED WITH BEASTLY HUMANS By David Hinckley
 
 
TNT’s new Animal Kingdom vaults Ellen Barkin into distinguished company as an amoral and creepy female crime boss.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jun
14
ABC REMAKES 'UNCLE BUCK' WITH MIKE EPPS IN CANDY ROLE By David Hinckley
 
 
Remaking Uncle Buck into a TV sitcom feels like it kinda shouldn’t work, and then it kinda does...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jun
13
A ROMANTIC COMIC FAUX-HORROR THRILLER -- THAT'S 'BRAINDEAD' By David Hinckley
 
 
Mary Elizabeth Winstead plays a nurse on PBS’s Mercy Street, which unfortunately proves insufficient to resuscitate CBS’s new BrainDead...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Jun
13
BIOPIC TRACES THE RISE OF BEATLES PAL CILLA BLACK By David Hinckley
 
 
To American music fans of an advancing age, the name Cilla Black may ring a faint bell as a minor player in the 1960s British Invasion...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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