This week, Jane the Virgin takes a classic soap opera spin, whether it’s an American soap or a telenovela. It introduces the formerly unknown lookalike doppelganger – with, of course, Gina Rodriguez playing both. It’s not exactly Orphan Black, but it’s a start…

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FARGO By David Bianculli

If you found, and stayed with, last week’s season premiere, you’ve already seen one of the fall’s best new series. If you didn’t, dive in tonight anyway, whether or not you catch up on streaming video. (Feels like I’ve said this before somewhere.) The second hour of this Fargo Season 2 reboot is even better than the first, and the characterizations even richer. Watch, in particular, for a traffic stop by Ted Danson. Classic polite-speaking faceoff between good and e

2015

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I'LL HAVE WHAT PHIL'S HAVING By David Bianculli

Tonight’s installment of Phil Rosenthal’s global tour of culinary treats and food-loving people goes to Hong Kong, where the hot pot is hot, and the eggs can be centuries old… For my interview with Rosenthal about this delightful PBS food and travel series, see Bianculli’s Blog. Check local listings.

2015

Oct

WHY AND HOW KEVIN SPACEY CHANNELED JIMMY STEWART FOR CAROL BURNETT ON COLBERT'S 'LATE SHOW' By David Bianculli

One of the best bits to date from CBS’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert will be repeated Tuesday: Kevin Spacey’s literally poetic salute to Carol Burnett. And I recently got the whole behind-the-scenes story, from both Burnett and Spacey themselves…

2015

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IT'S THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW By Monique Nazareth

It's no surprise Saturday Night Live would open this week's show with a parody of the CNN presidential debate. But what was unexpected was just how well they cast it, especially when it came to having SNL alum and Curb Your Enthusiasm star Larry David playing what some have called his doppelgänger...

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'JESSE STONE' MAKES SWITCH, HALLMARK COOL By David Hinckley

When people talk about cool moves in television programming, the conversation will rarely include the word “Hallmark"...

2015

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2015 NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES By David Bianculli

So far in the championship round of postseason baseball play, the home team has won every game. In the American League, the Kansas City Royals, playing at home, took the first two games from the Toronto Blue Jays – and last night, the New York Mets, playing at home, took Game 1 of the National League Championship Series from the Chicago Cubs. Tonight is Game 2, and that home-field-advantage streak will either be snapped – or extended.

2015

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THE SIMPSONS By David Bianculli

This show’s annual Treehouse of Horror Halloween celebration is next Sunday – but in the meantime, tonight’s show offers up an all-new Halloween of Horror episode. Same holiday, different approach. The Simpsons go to Krustyland Halloween Horror Night, which scares Lisa so much that Homer has to take down his own holiday decorations. But that’s not an end to the Halloween scares, because the Simpsons’ house gets invaded by former Halloween revelers out for revenge &n

2015

Oct

THE WALKING DEAD By David Bianculli

What a jaw-droppingly complicated of a season opener The Walking Dead rolled out last week. Past-tense flashbacks and present-tense scenes – and each was as tense a tense as the other. And those hundreds of walkers amassing around Alexandria (pictured)? It was like watching a colony of fire ants march through the rain forests of Brazil – only in search of brains. What could The Walking Dead possibly do to top that? We’ll all have to tune in and see. And I intend to do just that

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THE GOOD WIFE By David Bianculli

In court, Alicia (Julianna Margulies) defends a designer drug dealer – while, on TV, she appears in a cooking segment as part of the promise to help out with Peter’s campaign for vice president. Two different types of cooks, and, in each case, a potential recipe for disaster.

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