On the eve of the holiday we Americans traditionally celebrate by rounding up all family members, even the ones we don't really want to see, we’re getting a subtle gift from overseas...

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Nov

A FRENCH PROCEDURAL, 'BALTHAZAR,' IS WORTH INVESTIGATING By David Hinckley

Once upon a time, if you wanted to convey that a television character was a little wild or a little raffish, you gave that character a cigarette. For a variety of reasons – all of them good – that's become more problematic...

2019

Nov

BOB HEARTS ABISHOLA By David Bianculli

Bob and Abishola aren’t even a couple yet, and already they’re part of a potential romantic triangle. An old suitor of Abishola’s, played by Tony Tambi, re-enters the picture, asking Abishola for a second chance. How can Bob compete – or can he?

2019

Nov

HIS DARK MATERIALS By David Bianculli

In this week’s episode, we finally spend time with two long-awaited elements of this HBO series: the armor-plated polar bear, and the intrepid adventurer played by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Only one of them arrives courtesy of CGI special effects – but rest assured. So long as I’m aware, no Lin-Manuel Mirandas were hurt in the making of this TV show.

2019

Nov

'COLLEGE BEHIND BARS' ON THE CONTROVERSY OVER EDUCATING PRISONERS By David Hinckley

Up until 20 or 30 years ago, education was considered a standard component in prison rehabilitation programs...

2019

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THE SIMPSONS By David Bianculli

Last month, the long-running Treehouse of Horror franchise of The Simpsons completed three decades of annual installments, presenting Treehouse of Horror XXX, in which the individual segments poked fun at Stranger Things, The Shape of Water, and Heaven Can Wait. Today, Fox inaugurates what may be a new holiday tradition of anything-goes anthology Simpsons stories, this time built around Thanksgiving. Yes, it’s the first Thank

2019

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THE PRINCESS BRIDE By David Bianculli

In my opinion, this 1987 William Goldman adaptation of his own book, directed by Rob Reiner and starring Mandy Patinkin, Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Wallace Shawn, Andre the Giant, Billy Crystal and Carol Kane, is The Wizard of Oz of its generation – the finest family movie made since that 1939 classic. And yes, I really mean it. Anybody want a peanut?

2019

Nov

THE GREEN HORNET MARATHON By David Bianculli

Here’s a real TV rarity: Tonight on DECADES, the ABC 1966-67 camp fantasy series The Green Hornet, presented as a spinoff of sorts from the contemporaneous, equally camp Batman, is shown in its entirety, in one long 26-episode marathon, beginning at 8 p.m. ET. Van Williams stars as the masked crimefighter – by day, a well-to-do newspaper publisher named Britt Reid – but the big draw here is Reid’s valet and chauffeur, Kato, a kung fu expert who also se

2019

Nov

WATCHMEN By David Bianculli

In tonight’s episode, Angela (Regina King) takes some of the mind-altering drug Nostalgia – but it’s not hers, which makes her mental trip even more surreal. And dangerous…

2019

Nov

BACK TO LIFE By David Bianculli

Episodes 5 and 6. Daisy Haggard is showcased in two more Back to Life episode, as this series burns through its Season 1 output in weekly double doses.

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