A new quasi-sequel to Serial will inevitably make less of a cultural splash than the original. But it provides equally valuable context to a case fraught with loose ends...

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'NOW APOCALYPSE' DEBUTS ON STARZ By David Hinckley

Millennials sure lead exciting lives on television...

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THE CIRCUS: INSIDE THE WILDEST POLITICAL SHOW ON EARTH By David Bianculli

Perhaps for the first time all year, it’s the Democrats, not the Republicans, who have managed to dominate much of the news cycle – and not in a good way. It’ll be interesting to see how The Circus covers this end of the spectrum, with charges of Anti-Semitism occupying the Democratic House of Representatives, thanks to controversial remarks by first-term congressperson Ilhan Omar.

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AMERICAN GODS By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: It’ll take most of this second season to decide whether American Gods will manage to keep its momentum intact despite a series of behind-the-scenes changes. Neil Gaiman, author of the inventive source novel, remains involved, so it’s not likely to go too much off the rails. But after Season 1, two of the show’s executive producers, Bryan Fuller and Michael Green, left the series – and since Fuller was one of the very visual creators behind both Pushing Da

2019

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ARETHA: A GRAMMY CELEBRATION OF THE QUEEN OF SOUL By David Bianculli

SPECIAL PREMIERE: Jennifer Hudson (pictured) gets to give “Respect” to Aretha Franklin, as one of many artists singing songs from the Queen of Soul’s songbook, in this posthumous tribute recorded in January. Franklin earned her first Grammy Awards for “Respect” in 1968, for both Best Female R&B Performance and Best R&B Performance. She won again in the Female R&B category the following year for “Chain of Fools,” and continued to rack up Gramm

2019

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THE WALKING DEAD By David Bianculli

Last week, Daryl led a rescue mission that infiltrated the camp of Samantha Morton’s sinister Alpha and escaped with not only her captive, Henry, but her own daughter, Lydia, who was about to be forced by Alpha to kill Henry. This week, Alpha is on the warpath – literally, by following the path back to where Daryl and the others have returned, and with war, and retribution, on her mind.

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THE CASE AGAINST ADNAN SYED By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY MINISERIES PREMIERE: The 1999 disappearance and murder of 18-year-old high school student Hae Min Yee, and the subsequent murder conviction of her former boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was a cold case made red hot by the nonfiction Serial podcast. Starting tonight, HBO takes an even newer look at the case, including what has happened since it was overturned in the wake of the Serial revelations. The Case Against Adnan Syed is directed by Amy Berg, who also directed the 2016 PBS American Mast

2019

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SHAMELESS By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: This is the Season 9 finale of this impressively acted Showtime series (itself an Americanized version of a British series, which, like NBC’s U.S. version of The Office, far outlasted the original). It also happens to be the final episode co-starring Emmy Rossum as Fiona, eldest daughter of the scrappy Gallagher clan. Fiona has had a brutal season, hitting rock bottom and sinking even below that, but last week’s show ended with a chance encounter that gives her charact

2019

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JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM By David Bianculli

Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt and Isabella Sermon star in this 2018 film that’s the latest in the string of Jurassic Park movies. Pratt is charming yet goofy as a matinee idol – part Cary Grant, part Bill Murray – but Howard’s role, this time around (both she and Pratt are reprising earlier roles), is even more thankless. And Fallen Kingdom is even more derivative, intentionally echoing several set pieces from the original film.

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WINCHESTER By David Bianculli

In this 2018 supernatural thriller, Helen Mirren plays an elderly heir to the Winchester fortune, a woman who suspects she’s being haunted by the spirits of people killed by the Winchester rifles assembled by her ancestors. And she’s not wrong.

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