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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2017
Apr
24
‘DOMINION CREEK’ CAPTURES THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE OF THE OLD AMERICAN WEST By David Hinckley
 
 
Have a good chuckle if you will, lads and lassies, at the idea of an Irish Western...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
23
ON THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE L.A. RIOTS, SEVERAL PROGRAMS EXAMINE WHAT WENT WRONG By David Hinckley
 
 
A quarter century after the Rodney King verdict sent Los Angeles up in flames, fully sorting out that tragedy remains a job above the pay grade of mortals...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
21
HARRY ‘BOSCH’ IS BACK SOLVING CRIMES By David Hinckley
 
 
A lot of troubled TV cops start to soften a little around the third season. Not Harry Bosch...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
20
HISHAM TAWFIQ ON PLAYING THE QUIET TOUGH GUY ON ‘THE BLACKLIST’ By David Hinckley
 
 
Hisham Tawfiq admits he didn’t originally want his bodyguard character Dembe Zuma on The Blacklist to be the strong, silent type...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
19
‘FARGO’ RETURNS FOR SEASON 3 WITH EWAN MCGREGOR. AND EWAN MCGREGOR By David Hinckley
 
 
There are no accidents in the tragicomic events that shape each season of FX’s Fargo, and it’s probably also no accident that each year the show delivers a female star off whom we cannot take our eyes...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
19
EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE IN THE FACE OF UNIMAGINABLE HORROR – THE STORY OF THE ‘HOLOCAUST ESCAPE TUNNEL’ By David Hinckley
 
 
One of the great frustrations in discussing the Holocaust is that the numbers quickly become so large they often begin to feel abstract...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
18
CREATOR NOAH HAWLEY ON THE NEW SEASON OF ‘FARGO’ By David Hinckley
 
 
If hanging the new season of Fargo on the fiscal crisis of 2008 doesn’t sound all that sexy, creator Noah Hawley says the new edition really gets back to something more timeless and troubling. “It’s about what people will do for money...”...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
16
‘THE WHITE PRINCESS’ OFFERS A SOLID IF FLAWED TALE By David Hinckley
 
 
The new Starz series The White Princess takes the real-life union between England’s King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York and makes it more, you know, interesting...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
15
SHOWTIME’S ‘GUERRILLA’ EXPLORES SEVENTIES BLACK RADICALISM THROUGH A UNIVERSAL LENS By David Hinckley
 
 
Showtime’s new limited series Guerrilla tells an important story imperfectly...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
14
‘FORTITUDE’ HAS A FAMILIAR, ECCENTRIC RING TO IT By David Hinckley
 
 
It would be presumptuous yet not totally untrue to say Amazon’s Fortitude resembles Fargo without the laughs...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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