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TVWW ARCHIVE

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2020
Mar
9
THE NEXT CHAPTER OF 'BLOOD' ARRIVES ON ACORN By David Hinckley
 
 
Things have not gone well for the Hogan family since the end of the first series of the psychological crime drama Blood...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Mar
7
'ZEROZEROZERO' IS AN INTERNATIONAL DRUG DRAMA THAT LOOKS AT A FULLER PICTURE By David Hinckley
 
 
It turns out that serving as the broker between Mexican drug cartels and mob-run drug distributors is about what you'd expect. Lucrative but risky...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Mar
6
AN 'AMAZING STORIES' REBOOT LANDS AT APPLE TV+ By David Hinckley
 
 
It takes about five seconds for a reboot of Amazing Stories to fully conjure the spirit of Steven Spielberg, who created the original 1985 series...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Mar
6
'HILLARY,' THE LATEST DOCUMENTARY ON HULU, IS ABOUT MUCH MORE THAN ONE PERSON By David Hinckley
 
 
I still don't understand why so many people dislike Hillary Clinton. I mention this because I had hoped Hulu's new documentary Hillary, which becomes available Friday, might provide some insight...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Mar
5
WITH 'DEVS,' HULU HAS A NEW TECH THRILLER THAT OFFERS SOME TRADITIONAL TROPES By David Hinckley
 
 
Making tech billionaires into villains for purposes of TV drama isn't a tough sell. Devs...doesn't waste time in letting us know that its Big Bad is Forest (Nick Offerman), the calculating bossman at a tech giant...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Mar
4
WHAT ITS LIKE NAVIGATING THROUGH YOUR 'TWENTIES' By David Hinckley
 
 
If an hour-long TV show these days can mostly be funny, there's no reason a half-hour show can't be mostly serious...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Mar
2
'BREEDERS' REPRODUCES A TYPICAL SITCOM WITH FX-FRIENDLY LANGUAGE By David Hinckley
 
 
Breeders seems like a strange sitcom to show up on FX...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Mar
1
AN INTERESTING GROUP TAKES AN UNUSUAL JOURNEY ON 'DISPATCHES FROM ELSEWHERE' By David Hinckley
 
 
The lonely guy who finally finds someone to break through the clouds and bring sunshine into his life is not an unfamiliar television character...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Feb
25
THE COMPLEX AND COMPLICATED 'MILES DAVIS: BIRTH OF THE COOL' By David Hinckley
 
 
If you made a list of the greatest jazz musicians of all time and then a list of the happiest human beings of all time, you wouldn't have to worry much about overlap...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Feb
24
WAS LENNON LACY MURDERED? 'INDEPENDENT LENS' EXPLORES THE CASE WITH 'ALWAYS IN SEASON' By David Hinckley
 
 
Miscarriage of justice stories have become a television staple of late, and Jacqueline Olive's documentary Always In Season calls attention to another disturbing case...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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