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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2020
Aug
4
'THE SWAMP' EXPLAINS THE REALITIES AND DYSFUNCTION OF CONGRESS By David Hinckley
 
 
No matter where you stand ideologically, it's hard not to get frustrated over the seemingly glacial pace at which things get done – or don't get done – in Washington...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Aug
2
HISTORY CHANNEL RECALLS THE NUCLEAR STRIKES AGAINST JAPAN THAT ENDED WORLD WAR II By David Hinckley
 
 
Seventy-five years ago next Thursday, on Aug. 6, 1945, the United States B-29 Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb that destroyed the Japanese city of Hiroshima, effectively ended World War II, and started a moral debate...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
31
FROM TROUBLED TO TRIUMPHANT: 'THE GO-GO'S' By David Hinckley
 
 
The Go-Go's set out to show that an all-female band could do all the things an all-male band could do, and they pretty much succeeded. That included making catchy records that became big hits...It also included serious internal friction..
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
30
'FRAYED,' ON HBO MAX, IS NOT A SHABBY SHOW By David Hinckley
 
 
The age of the plucky female antihero continues to unfold with Frayed, an Australian production that premieres in America on Thursday over HBO Max...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
29
'THE WEIGHT OF GOLD': THE STEEPEST COST OF BEING AN OLYMPIAN ISN'T ALWAYS FINANCIAL By David Hinckley
 
 
Almost everyone knows the feeling of a letdown after a big event ends. You've been focusing on it for so long that once it actually happens, there's an inevitable after-sense of "okay, what now?"...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
28
THE WAR ON INFO: 'UNITED STATES OF CONSPIRACY' ON PBS By David Hinckley
 
 
Years before there was an Internet, radio understood the concept of click bait. You put someone on the air saying the most bizarre things anyone can imagine, and if he or she does it in a voice that's loud and engaging enough, it will entertain some of the audience...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
27
'REBECKA MARTINSSON' RETURNS FOR SEASON 2 WITH, WELL, A DIFFERENT LOOK By David Hinckley
 
 
Now here’s an identity crisis for a TV character: Even the actress who plays you is different...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
24
THE FINAL SEASON OF 'ROOM 104' ARRIVES ON HBO By David Hinckley
 
 
It hasn't been easy to make a TV series these last few years that feels different since the avalanche of programming has filled just about every crack. HBO's Room 104...achieves "different."...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
19
THE TIDE OF SHARK-CENTRIC PROGRAMMING BEGINS WITH SHARKFEST 2020 ON NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL AND NATGEO WILD By David Hinckley
 
 
Nat Geo's annual plunge into the world of sharks, appropriately titled SHARKFEST, keeps getting bigger – and yet its core mission remains exactly what it has always been and probably always will be...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Jul
16
'THE SECRETS SHE KEEPS,' STARRING LAURA CARMICHAEL, IS A STRONG PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER By David Hinckley
 
 
Honestly, it's a little uncomfortable to see dramatizations about women whose need for a baby makes them criminally unbalanced...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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