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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive

2017

Mar

‘TO WALK INVISIBLE: THE BRONTË SISTERS’ ON PBS EXPLORES THE REMARKABLE YET ROUGH LIFE OF THE AUTHORS By David Hinckley

The three Brontë sisters had a dark secret. They wrote stories. In early Victorian England, this was considered unladylike and downright unseemly...

2017

Mar

FOX HAS HIT THE TARGET WITH ‘SHOTS FIRED’ By David Hinckley

Broadcast television has another strong, compelling and troubling entry in the limited-series game with Fox’s Shots Fired...

2017

Mar

EVERYONE’S FANNING THE FIRE WHEN ‘EMPIRE’ RETURNS By David Hinckley

About the only way things could have gotten hotter on Fox’s Empire would be if they set the whole thing on fire...

2017

Mar

ACORN’S ‘STRIKING OUT’ IS AN IRISH LEGAL DRAMA WITH HEART. AND LAUGHS By David Hinckley

A steady stream of small lovely details make Acorn TV’s latest import, Striking Out, a delightful short-run lawyer drama...

2017

Mar

A EULOGY FOR ‘MERCY STREET’ By David Hinckley

A lot of television shows stick around too long. Mercy Street is leaving too soon...

2017

Mar

OUR TRUTHS MAY BE OUT THERE AND, ACCORDING TO TV, IT’S PROBABLY A GOOD THING By David Hinckley

On the delicate matter of having every minute of our private lives monitored by cameras and computers these days, it could be fairly said we’re sending at least one mixed signal...

2017

Mar

‘HAP AND LEONARD’ BACK FOR SEASON 2 WITH ADDITIONAL DELIGHTFUL CHARACTERS By David Hinckley

Sundance’s Hap and Leonard returns for a second season Wednesday and provides more reasons this series should not be flying under the radar...

2017

Mar

NBC’S ‘TRIAL & ERROR’ MAKES A CASE FOR A NEW KIND OF SITCOM By David Hinckley

Every time you start to get annoyed at NBC’s new sitcom Trial & Error, you think how much the creators obviously love the immortal film My Cousin Vinny and you back off...

2017

Mar

SEASON 3 OF ABC’S ‘AMERICAN CRIME’ ADDRESSES THE ISSUES OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS By David Hinckley

To the credit of ABC and creator John Ridley, American Crime is still tackling the tough ones and not pretending any solution is easy...

2017

Mar

JEAN SMART OF ‘LEGION’ ON UNDERSTANDING MELANIE BIRD By David Hinckley

Noah Hawley says one of his primary inspirations for writing the FX sci-fi series Legion was Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. But Jean Smart suggests she was more inspired by another classic rock band of that era: Blind Faith...

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