The sun rose in the East this morning, so it must be time for Anne of Green Gables to get adapted again. Happily, the new edition that arrives on the streaming service Netflix Friday, titled Anne With An E, is a good one...

2017

May

CHARLES BARKLEY TAKES THE COURT ON RACE By David Hinckley

As a TV sports commentator, Charles Barkley has been paid for years to be provocative. So it shouldn’t be surprising that in his first game as a conciliator – on the rather larger matter of race relations – he doesn’t always score...

2017

May

DAVID THEWLIS ON THE STORY OF V.M. VARGA OF ‘FARGO’ By David Hinckley

Turns out the research for playing one of the most amoral psychos on television these days is simple: Turn on the news. “That was really how I did it,” says David Thewlis...

2017

May

‘THE LAST 100 DAYS OF DIANA’ IS A WORTHY EFFORT IN REMEMBERING THE PRINCESS, BUT A BIT OVERDONE By David Hinckley

Twenty years later, there may be no way to avoid getting melodramatic over the death of Princess Diana...

2017

May

‘BATMAN & BILL’ TELLS THE STORY OF THE BATTLING CREATORS OF THE CAPED CRUSADER By David Hinckley

Hulu’s new documentary Batman & Bill should engage even the casual comic book fan because, like all the best Batman capers, it has a solid villain...

2017

May

HAS ‘BETTER CALL SAUL’ TAKEN A TURN FOR THE DARK? By David Hinckley

One of the many impressive achievements of Better Call Saul, AMC’s semi-prequel to the late Breaking Bad, is that it has created a strong identity of its own by establishing a very different tone from the original...

2017

May

PBS' 'VICTORIAN SLUM HOUSE' MORE LIKE HISTORIC 'SURVIVOR' By David Hinckley

Victorian Slum House might be best called a hybrid between a PBS documentary and the PBS version of reality television...

2017

Apr

WHERE SEASON 3 OF ‘AMERICAN CRIME’ WILL END IS ANYBODY’S GUESS By David Hinckley

[Warning: contains possible spoilers from previously aired episodes.] ABC’s American Crime has added another superlative to its resume this spring...

2017

Apr

SUBJUGATION AND TOTALITARIANISM IN THE NAME OF RELIGION WITH ‘THE HANDMAID’S TALE’ By David Hinckley

If you can stand one more trip into the dystopian future, The Handmaid’s Tale offers a disturbing and powerful voyage...

2017

Apr

‘GREAT NEWS’ IS THE SAME JOKE OVER AND OVER AGAIN. MAYBE By David Hinckley

There are two ways to look at NBC’s new sitcom Great News...The first is that it’s Groundhog Day...

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