The Milwaukee Brewers did it. Facing elimination in last night’s Game 6, with the Los Angeles Dodgers holding a 3-2 lead in the National League pennant series, the Brewers kept fighting. The game started with the Dodgers scoring a run right out of the box at the top of the first – but in the bottom of the first, Milwaukee answered with a four-run bombardment, and never looked back. That’s why, tonight, the two teams meet one last time, for a do-or-die Game 7. The winner faces t

2018

Oct

NETFLIX BRINGS BACK THE EXCITEMENT OF 'MARVEL'S DAREDEVIL' By David Hinckley

Marvel’s Daredevil did the right thing with its alpha villain back in Season 1. It didn’t kill him. It just locked him up...

2018

Oct

THE ROMANOFFS By David Bianculli

Today Amazon unveils the third installment of Matthew Weiner’s anthology series The Romanoffs – and this one is a must-see for fans of his previous series, Mad Men. Christina Hendricks, who played Joan in that superb series, stars here as Elaine Rogers, a movie star hired – ready for some major meta? – to star in a TV miniseries called The Romanovs. In this show within the show, her director, Jacqueline Gerard, is a former actress herself, and she’s played by the di

2018

Oct

THE MAKING OF A MURDERER By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Today Netflix drops Season 2 of this documentary series, continuing the controversial story that was begun back in 2015. It involves the case – actually, the cases – of Steven Avery, who was imprisoned after being convicted in 1985 of a brutal physical attack, then exonerated by DNA evidence and released, and then, in 2005, convicted of murder. The first season of The Making of a Murderer cast lots of doubt about that second arrest and conviction – and this fol

2018

Oct

MARVEL'S DAREDEVIL By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Next to Marvel’s Jessica Jones, this series easily is the best effort from Netflix’s multi-show presentation of some of the more ignored corners of the Marvel superhero universe. Charlie Cox stars as Matt Murdock, a blind attorney who, thanks to radioactively bestowed supersensory powers that complement his infirmity, dresses up as a costumed superhero to fight crime in his neighborhood of Hell’s Kitchen. Last seen at the conclusion of Marvel’s The Defend

2018

Oct

2018 NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES By David Bianculli

Tonight is Game 6, with the Los Angeles Dodgers enjoying a 3-2 edge in pennant-race games over the Milwaukee Brewers. If the Dodgers win tonight, they repeat as National League champions, and proceed for the second straight year to the World Series. If the Brewers win, they tie the series at three games apiece, and force a deciding Game 7 tomorrow night.

2018

Oct

SHAKESPEARE UNCOVERED By David Bianculli

Once again this week, this series presents a pair of episodes, each featuring an actor explaining some of the intricacies, and relevancies, of a particular play by William Shakespeare. The first play discussed tonight is Measure for Measure, hosted by actress Romola Garai (pictured), who links one of the lines – spoken by a man who mockingly sweeps aside any concerns about a woman’s testimony being believed – to very recent events in the #MeToo movement: “Who will believe

2018

Oct

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

Tonight’s episode of Real Time is a special one. Specifically, it’s an anniversary special, acknowledging not only the 15th anniversary of Real Time on HBO, but 25 years, reaching back to the 1993 Comedy Central debut of Politically Incorrect, of Maher hosting a current events-related talk and comedy show. Politically Incorrect and Maher went to ABC in 1997 (pictured), and his series was cancelled, infamously, in 2002, the year before Maher bounced back on HBO with Real Time. Highlig

2018

Oct

TECH GIANTS V. PUBLIC TELEVISION: THE BATTLE FOR HEARTS AND MINDS IN THE INFORMATION AGE By Alex Strachan

The big picture is ever-changing. There’s a global battle going on to influence and shape what we watch in the comfort of our homes...

2018

Oct

THE BIG BANG THEORY By David Bianculli

Can a planetarium have too many stars? Koothrappali (Kunal Nayyar) thinks so – because in tonight’s new episode, “The Planetarium Collision,” he goes out of his way to avoid having to share hosting chores there with Wolowitz (Simon Helberg). The problem, dear Brutus…

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