I’ve always had a special spot for otters (right now, it’d be my koi pond, if any TVWW-reading otters are interested). When I was a college student at the University of Florida, my friends and I would go northwest of Gainesville on occasional weekends to be the first people that day to throw our giant inner tubes, and ourselves, into the Itchetucknee River. Then we’d let the current carry us around the curves, where we’d come upon turtles, snakes, and occasional otters. T

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Oct

MODERN FAMILY By David Bianculli

Like Roseanne before it, the ABC sitcom Modern Family has made Halloween an annual TV tradition. And while many family members are ready, even eager, to pass on the torch, Phil and Claire are stalwart holdouts. Tonight’s episode, fittingly, is called “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Phil Dunphy,” and it features Claire as Wonder Woman.

2017

Oct

FRONTLINE: "PUTIN'S REVENGE" By David Bianculli

Part 1 of 2. Frontline producer Michael Kirk and his team present this internationally researched two-parter, concluding next Wednesday, in which reporters trace, and probe, the moves and motives of Vladimir Putin regarding his decision to target the American election. (Real news!) For full reviews, see Alex Strachan's TV That Matters, and Ed Bark's Uncle Barky's Bytes. Check local listings.

2017

Oct

MR. ROBOT By David Bianculli

The more I watch, the less I understand. This series, in Season 3, is beginning to make me feel like I’m back in my college statistics class all over again…

2017

Oct

2017 WORLD SERIES By David Bianculli

This year’s World Series, between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros, pits two of the season’s very best teams against one another: The Dodgers won a best-in-baseball 104 games during the regular season, while the Astros won 101. Other stats likely to go into the triple figures for tonight’s first game, played at Dodger Stadium: The fastest fastballs are all but guaranteed to exceed 100 m.p.h., and the temperature, just before game time, is projected to be a sweltering

2017

Oct

THE VOICE By David Bianculli

More Battle Rounds, and the judges have fewer “steals” to put in play. So when the singers do battle tonight, the losers, according to the numbers, are most likely to go home.

2017

Oct

THIS IS US By David Bianculli

In tonight’s show, Sophie holds a fundraiser for her hospital, and gets Kevin and Randall to attend. Meanwhile, as the boys go camping, Rebecca and Kate (pictured) stay behind, and do their own type of bonding.

2017

Oct

AMERICAN HORROR STORY: CULT By David Bianculli

Last week, cult leader Kai got his lethal ladies to kill another victim. This time it was one of their own – and in tonight’s episode, Kai has other, more nefarious plans in store. He’s succeeding in his dark, frightening scheme to run for political office – blue hair and all.

2017

Oct

AT HOME WITH AMY SEDARIS By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Amy Sedaris usually is hilarious, but her new showcase series is a mixed bag, with a tone that may not wear well in large doses. In this 10-part comedy series, she plays a TV hostess dispensing advice on cooking, entertaining, exercising, dieting, and other things. Her targets are the likes of Rachel Ray and Martha Stewart – but early tastes of At Home with Amy Sedaris, as a TV character giving advice aimed mostly at female viewers, pale behind Leigh French’s classic

2017

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THE VOICE By David Bianculli

The Battle Rounds continue – and in this second week, continue to escalate in drama because each time a judge uses a “steal” to save, and inherit, a rival team’s losing candidate, there are fewer reprieves in play the rest of the way.

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