Two of the best shows on TV wrap up their current seasons this week, Fargo on FX and Better Call Saul on AMC, and I’ve spent several weeks trying to figure out why my reactions toward them are so different...

2017

Jun

‘MY MOTHER AND OTHER STRANGERS’ TELLS THE STORY OF LIFE DURING WORLD WAR II IN NORTHERN IRELAND By David Hinckley

Behind a title that could mean almost anything, the new PBS drama My Mother and Other Strangers rivetingly portrays several of the 10,000 human consequences of war...

2017

Jun

'GRANTCHESTER' RETURNS TO PBS WITH A NEW ADDITION By David Hinckley

The new season of PBS’s delightful murder mystery Grantchester starts off by replenishing a bit of Grantchester’s population. The third season, which premieres Sunday at 9 p.m. ET, starts with a birth rather than a death...

2017

Jun

‘CARDINAL’ OFFERS A FEW HOURS OF GUILTY TV PLEASURE By David Hinckley

If it’s summer, it must be time for another Canadian police series to visit the U.S. – and sure enough, Hulu offers the nicely compact detective drama Cardinal beginning Friday...

2017

Jun

PROBABLY THE BEST OF A FAMILIAR PLOT – PBS’ ‘THE TUNNEL: SABOTAGE’ By David Hinckley

For all the talk about summer blossoming into a fertile field for quality television, the truth is you have to hunt a little harder to find the good stuff once the days get longer and the nights get warmer. So here’s a place to look...

2017

Jun

THE LAST EPISODE OF ‘THE HANDMAID’S TALE’ IS HERE, BUT DON’T LET THAT STOP YOU FROM WATCHING SEASON ONE – AGAIN OR FOR THE FIRST TIME By David Hinckley

One of the gems of current television, The Handmaid’s Tale on Hulu, wraps up its first season with an ending that’s appropriately menacing and yet reassuringly cryptic...

2017

Jun

‘BLOOD DRIVE’ IS A NEW SYFY SHOW WITH THE EMPHASIS ON BLOOD By David Hinckley

You wouldn’t necessarily say the level of violence, blood, and mutilation in Syfy’s new series Blood Drive is unprecedented. You could find a similar level of gore with relative ease at, say, the Chicago stockyards...

2017

Jun

ADAM WEST 1928 - 2017 By David Hinckley

Let’s agree that among all the film and TV versions of Batman, Adam West’s was the silliest. It was also one of the most important – because West kept Batman alive at a time when the character could have faded into bat-obscurity...

2017

Jun

TATIANA MASLANY CONTINUES TO IMPRESS IN THE FINAL SEASON OF ‘ORPHAN BLACK’ By David Hinckley

Coming cold to the BBC America series Orphan Black is a little like stumbling on one of Einstein’s notebooks. Your first thought will not be, “Hey, I got this.”...

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