Let's get this out of the way right up front: USA's new anthology drama, Briarpatch, is going to remind many folks of Fargo, and in making that association, they will not be wrong...

2020

Feb

A FATHER'S JOURNEY IN MEMORY OF HIS SON – 'THE PHARMACIST' By David Hinckley

Dan Schneider's story was never going to have a happy ending. His son Danny had been murdered on a late-night run to buy drugs, and that was never going to change...

2020

Feb

THE EPIC DISCOVERY AND DISMANTLING OF A BILLION DOLLAR MONOPOLY SCAM – 'MCMILLIONS' By David Hinckley

Anyone who ate a Big Mac between 1989 and 2001 – you can admit it, there's no shame – remembers the McDonald's Monopoly game...

2020

Jan

'THE GOOD PLACE' GAVE US A WONDERFUL ENDING FILLED WITH SUBTLE AND BEAUTIFUL LIFE LESSONS By David Hinckley

To say The Good Place had the right ending is not to say it had the ending a lot of its fans wanted...

2020

Jan

HOW ONE MAN WORKED TIRELESSLY TO KEEP OUR FOOD SAFE: 'THE POISON SQUAD' By David Hinckley

No one likes government regulation. No, sir. It's bureaucrats getting in the way of productivity. When leaders kill burdensome regulations, the people cheer. Except there's this thing that people like even less than regulation...

2020

Jan

JIM LEHRER 1934 – 2020 By David Hinckley

Jim Lehrer got to be the kind of journalist we all should want, and most of us say we want, and many of us really don't want...

2020

Jan

THE NEXT SEASON OF NETFLIX'S SUPERNATURAL 'CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA' IS AS DARK AS IT IS DELIGHTFUL By David Hinckley

If Chilling Adventures of Sabrina were a bottle of wine, it might be described as ritualistic, but oddly charming...

2020

Jan

'OUTMATCHED' ISN'T ALL THAT OUTSTANDING By David Hinckley

A sitcom in which the kids are smarter than the parents is the TV version of "dog bites man." Nothing to see here, folks. Move along...

2020

Jan

PBS' 'SECRETS OF THE DEAD' ASKS IF THE ALLIES SHOULD HAVE OPTED FOR 'BOMBING AUSCHWITZ' By David Hinckley

The PBS series Secrets of the Dead, to be honest, sometimes feels a little too commercial. This week, however, it’s right on target with a show that asks and calmly explores one of the toughest moral questions of humanity’s last century...

2020

Jan

'AVENUE 5' IS A GREAT COMEDY ESCAPE ON A SPACE CRUISE By David Hinckley

The funniest new show so far in 2020, allowing for the fact we're only 19 days into it, is Avenue 5...

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