DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

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2019
Oct
20
 
 
BEVERLY HILLS, CA – For a network that put the skids on its alternate history Confederate after controversy regarding racial insensitivity, HBO begins one of its most anticipated new series amid the single worst incident of racial violence in American history...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Oct
19
 
 
You can see the Okavango Delta from space. That right there gives you a sense of the sheer scale of the place...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Oct
19
 
 
Yesterday, when I recorded and distributed the Best TV Tomorrow video for Saturday (now today: how time flies), and said there basically was nothing so compelling on TV that it qualified as “best,” I encouraged you to turn off the TV and go live your lives. (See my non-recommendation here.) But that was before the New York Yankees beat the Houston Astros 4-1 in last night’s Game 5. That means, instead of the Astros claiming the American League pennant and it
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Oct
18
 
 
Amazon Prime’s well-promoted new Modern Love would seem to have it all: a great cast of A-list actors, a pre-tested story niche, and the promise of snappy half-hour episodes that won’t tax the modern attention span...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Oct
18
 
 
Being of a "certain age" helps if you're looking for a TV series with which to compare Amazon Prime's Modern Love...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Oct
18
 
 
TV used to savor anthologies. There were high-profile, high-prestige ones...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Oct
18
 
 
Some 14 years passed between the time John Green's Looking for Alaska became a prize-winning debut novel and the arrival of its video incarnation...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Oct
18
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: This new anthology series, each episode of which stars different actors and tells of a different love story, presents eight episodes in this first season – and, like any anthology series, range in quality. But the umbrella premise is intriguing, and I’m a big fan of the anthology format. The first episode stars Cristin Milioti, who’s already scored big in another anthology series by starring in the U.S.S. Callister episode of Black Mirror, p
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Oct
18
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Paul Rudd has a dual role here, playing a somewhat hapless man and his genetically engineered, vastly superior clone. Imagine The Odd Couple, with the same man rooming with his fussier, more together lookalike. It’s a goofy premise, but Rudd takes it seriously enough to carry it off. Both roles.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Oct
18
 
 
The 2019 postseason is a perfect example why the games are played, rather than just decided beforehand based on reputations and expectations. Two of the most powerful postseason names in baseball, for example, are the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees, power teams of their respective coasts. But already in this postseason, the Dodgers have been dispatched by the lowly wild-card Washington Nationals, who are representing the National League in the World Series. And tonight, in Game 5 of th