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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2015
Feb
27
UNLIKELY ANIMAL FRIENDS By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: You know that recent TV ad showing animals of different species, and often natural enemies, cavorting or cuddling together? Well, National Geographic Wild already had turned that concept into a nature series long ago – and here it is, returning again for a new season (Number 4) of cats and dogs, horses and chickens, and just about any other mix-and-match arrangement you can imagine. It’s the animal kingdom version of The Odd Couple, only a lot more entertaining than
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Feb
27
SEX BOX By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: This is definitely not a recommendation – just a warning, and a bit of a scolding. It’s not even March yet – but if any other show is going to top my 2015 Worst TV list, this is the low bar it’ll have to slither beneath. Three advanced-degree therapists of various stripes sit in judgment, Shark Tank-like, while three couples take turns sitting before them to discuss their derailed sex lives. The experts give them some initial counseling, then send them of
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Feb
27
WE TV'S SUPER-LUDICROUS 'SEX BOX': AN IDEA WHOSE TIME HAS, UM, COME? By Ed Bark
 
 
With the new WEtv series Sex Box, TV critics are given more big, juicy low-hanging fruit to feast on than a giraffe in an apple orchard...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Feb
26
THE BIG BANG THEORY By David Bianculli
 
 
In tonight’s episode, Sheldon and Penny (Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco) take part in an experiment on a lark, and because of an excess of skepticism. The experiment? “The Intimacy Acceleration,” an experiment designed to make its participants fall in love.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Feb
26
AMERICAN IDOL By David Bianculli
 
 
Last night, the 12 male vocalists performed. Tonight, the 12 females on the other half of the contestant equation do the same thing.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Feb
26
QI By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Well, it’s a premiere on BBC America, and in the U.S., but this long-running quiz show from BBC2 is anything but new over there. But I’ve watched it while visiting London, and it’s a breezy delight. Stephen Fry hosts a rotating group of panelists who are tasked not with delivering the most accurate answer to his questions, necessarily, but the most interesting. (The title QI stands for “Quite Interesting.”) And tonight’s three back-to-back epi
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Feb
26
HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON FINALE: ABC hands over two hours of prime time for this final episode of the season, which indeed promises to offer up some finality. Yet, at the same time, expect at least one cliffhanger mystery to tease viewers until next season, because it wouldn’t be an ABC Thursday drama without it.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Feb
26
PORTLANDIA By David Bianculli
 
 
Tonight’s episode returns to the high-stress world of real estate, and finds issues with landlords, advertisements, escrow explanations, and “microhouses.” Even better, it features returning guest stars Steve Buscemi, who also directs the episode, and Anna Gunn from Breaking Bad.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Feb
26
DOES 'BOSCH' OFFER ANYTHING NEW FOR THE OLD COP SHOW? By TVWW Guest Contributor
 
 
Read why TVWW Guest Contributor, Kevin Canfield, says Amazon's Bosch is captivating, full of wonderful characters, and worth investigating...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Feb
25
SURVIVOR: WORLDS APART By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES RETURN: This is cycle number 30 for this granddaddy of modern reality competition shows, and it arrives with a new twist. This time there are three tribes, and they’re divided along class lines. There’s “White Collar,” “Blue Collar,” and the noncomformist “No Collar.” (No shoes? No shirt? You’re over there, on team three.) There’s no “One Percenter” or “CEO” team, which really would have been interesting &
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
New From TVWW

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'
By Ed Bark
 
 
 
 
Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver
By Christy Slewinski
 
 
 
 
'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy
By Noel Holston
 
 
 
 

Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James
By Mike Hughes
 
 
 
 
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self
By Monique Nazareth
 
 
 
 
Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption
By David Hinckley