Episodes 3 and 4. Daisy Haggard continues her strong starring role here as Miri Matteson, who’s back in her small seaside town after serving 18 years in prison for a murder conviction. But did she do it? These episodes drop more insight into that question, as well as a lot more information about the people around her in this small town, and what they were doing, with and to Miri, all those years ago. And in the present, she encounters some niceness – but only between bouts of awkward

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MRS. FLETCHER By David Bianculli

Given the relationship between Kathryn Hahn’s empty-nest mother and her new-to-college son, not to mention her new amorous relationship with one of the former classmates her son used to torment in high school, tonight’s episode title, “Parents’ Weekend,” promises a lot of conflict.

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Nov

LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER By David Bianculli

Impeachment hearings on Wednesday, more impeachment hearings on Friday, and John Oliver on Sunday. Three unmissable politically charged TV events of this week – but only one of them will make you laugh. Or should.

2019

Nov

OLIVIA COLMAN SHINES AS THE NEW QUEEN ON 'THE CROWN' By David Hinckley

By the time Queen Elizabeth had been ruling Britain for a decade, it's safe to say she had banished any tiny vestiges of spontaneity, impulse, or fun from her public behavior...

2019

Nov

LIEV SCHREIBER RETURNS FOR ANOTHER BRILLIANT TURN AS 'RAY DONOVAN' By David Hinckley

It can happen to anyone, really. You kill a corrupt cop, decapitate him, toss his head into the water and figure that's that...

2019

Nov

FROZEN By David Bianculli

Disney’s Frozen 2 arrives in theaters next Thursday, a week after the company launched Disney+ and immediately amassed some 12 million subscribers to its brand new streaming service. (Not a bad month for Disney, or for anyone.) And even though Frozen 2 is an even surer bet as a major instant hit, Disney is sweetening the pot by using one of its cable entities, Freeform, to present a well-timed repeat showing of the original 2013 Frozen animated musical. If the

2019

Nov

DOG DAY AFTERNOON By David Bianculli

Frank Pierson won an Oscar for his screenplay for this fact-based 1975 film, and deserved to – but he had help from two significant directions. Al Pacino, as hapless bank robber Sonny, improvised the film’s most famous scene, in which he excited and incited a crowd of onlookers by screaming “Attica!,” as director Sidney Lumet brilliantly captured the ensuing mayhem. Then there’s the real story itself, based on the magazine article by P.F. Kluge. It’s about a m

2019

Nov

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli

Tonight’s new episode is guaranteed to poke fun at the first week of House Impeachment proceedings – but otherwise, most of the show is likely to go in another direction. Make that One Direction, since a former member of that boy band, Harry Styles, is scheduled to show up tonight as both guest host and musical guest.

2019

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THE SEVENTIES & THE EIGHTIES By David Bianculli

Yesterday on TVWW’s Best TV Tomorrow YouTube video short, I recommended this particular double feature as the evening’s best bet. It was partly, I admit, for the self-conscious irony of being on TV (okay, on YouTube), recommending myself on TV (okay, on CNN), as one of the on-camera interviewees talking about television in two different decades. All of CNN’s “Decades” documentary series to date, which span from The Sixties to the 2000s,

2019

Nov

HULU'S LATEST, 'DOLLFACE,' IS A SURREAL SITCOM By David Hinckley

Dollface, an odd and not uninteresting new sitcom that arrives Friday on Hulu, begins with the simple premise that guys are idiots...

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