Tonight’s episode has Supergirl fighting on two fronts. At work, in her drab alter ego, she’s fighting to save her boss’ job. And in her Supergirl outfit, she’s doing battle with someone else with formidable powers and fighting skills: Astra.

2015

Dec

CHILDHOOD'S END By David Bianculli

MINISERIES PREMIERE: Part 1 of 3. This three-part Syfy miniseries is based on the novel by Arthur C. Clarke – which, like Robert Heinlein’s Stranger In a Strange Land, is one of the most admired science fiction novels of the era never to be adapted for the screen. (Okay, add Kurt Vonnegut’s The Sirens of Titan and Cat’s Cradle to that list as well.) Clarke, after all, is the guy whose short story inspired Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, so this new dramatiz

2015

Dec

VERY SEMI-SERIOUS: A PARTIALLY THOROUGH PORTRAIT OF NEW YORKER CARTOONISTS By David Bianculli

New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff, who’s also the guy who concocted and drew that famous New Yorker cartoon with the caption “How about never? Is never good for you?,” takes viewers of this documentary through a tour of just what it takes to make a New Yorker cartoon. This study also includes such classic contributors as James Thurber and Charles Addams, so expect the best. And expect to laugh. Good thing for freeze frame…

2015

Dec

ADELE LIVE IN NEW YORK CITY By David Bianculli

Adele is the biggest musical phenomenon of the year, and this concert, taped last month at Radio City Music Hall, has her doing her first U.S. concert in years. Her set list includes her current smash “Hello,” as well as “Hometown Glory” (the first song she ever wrote) and her breakthrough hit, “Rolling in the Deep.” Lorne Michaels is the executive producer.

2015

Dec

FARGO By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: Tonight is the Season 2 finale of Fargo, which means it’s the concluding episode of this particularly brutal, and entertaining, story line. (And bizarre, thanks to the bizarrely unexpected element during last week's motel shootout.) This year, Fargo has climbed to the top tier of many TV critics’ end-of-year Top 10 lists – including mine, which I’ll discussing on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross the last week of the year.

2015

Dec

'FARGO' SEASON TWO A TRIUMPH AND A MYSTERY By David Hinckley

The best new drama of the fall season, year two of FX’s Fargo, wraps up Monday (10 p.m. ET) with many fates still on the table...

2015

Dec

ED BARK'S TOP 10 FOR 2015 IS NO EASY LIST By Ed Bark

It’s the time for year-end lists. And for the fourth time, HitFix.com has surveyed 53 TV critics on their choices for the Top 10 overall and new TV series of 2015... This is an increasingly vexing task, given the wealth of drama and comedy series on broadcast, cable and streaming services...

2015

Dec

MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET By David Bianculli

It’s lovely watching Edmund Gwenn slip into the role, and big red suit, of Kris Kringle in this 1947 holiday classic. It’s equally heartwarming to see little Natalie Wood, as a child actress here, playing the role of the girl who believes that the department store Santa at Macy’s is indeed the genuine article. Repeats at 9:15 p.m. ET.

2015

Dec

THE SIMPSONS By David Bianculli

Tonight’s new episode takes on the movie Boyhood by animating the story of Bart Simpson as he might progress if, like the boy in Boyhood, he actually aged. And why not? Bart’s been around long enough, in terms of years, to have reached not only “Barthood” – the title of this episode – but adulthood as well. And pay special attention to the couch gag this week: Like the rest of this episode, it’s a loving nod to director Richard Linklater, director of Boy

2015

Dec

IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE By David Bianculli

Because NBC Universal owns the TV rights to this 1946 holiday classic, it can be televised, these days, only on NBC and its sister networks. That’s why NBC already has shown it once -- and why USA Network, one of NBC’s cable sister stations, is showing it tonight.

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