Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? She’s back on Netflix with a new interactive adventure... unlike the first two seasons, the viewer decides which way the story line goes, perhaps it’s a nod to the series beginnings in the game realm...

2020

Mar

WHEN WILL WE MOVE TO ANOTHER PLANET? 'COSMOS: POSSIBLE WORLDS' OFFERS OPTIONS By David Hinckley

Debate the feasibility of large-scale intergalactic space travel all you want. On National Geographic's new season of Cosmos: Possible Worlds, mass migration to other planets is settled science...

2020

Mar

THE NEXT CHAPTER OF 'BLOOD' ARRIVES ON ACORN By David Hinckley

Things have not gone well for the Hogan family since the end of the first series of the psychological crime drama Blood...

2020

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THE CREATIVE PROCESS BEHIND 'BLOOD' By Mike Hughes

The second Blood mini-series is a classic, Irish-style drama. It's deep and dark, brooding, and (only briefly) bloody. The title actually refers to family, not bloodshed...

2020

Mar

COSMOS: POSSIBLE WORLDS By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This sequel to the modern Cosmos, like its Fox predecessor, is hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson. This time, as in the original series by Carl Sagan, much of the focus is given up to the search for life on other planets. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.

2020

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BETTER CALL SAUL By David Bianculli

In this episode, the recently rechristened Saul Goodman and his lawyer girlfriend contemplate a very uneasy joint effort -- one which may help explain why Kim was nowhere to be seen in Breaking Bad, this show’s ostensible “sequel series.”

2020

Mar

MCMILLIONS By David Bianculli

MINISERIES FINALE: In tonight’s episode, the scam is revealed – but how, and why, is yet another entertaining part of this McDonalds Monopoly ripoff saga.

2020

Mar

DISPATCHES FROM ELSEWHERE By David Bianculli

So far on this surprising, unorthodox series, we’ve seen programs devoted to two of the game players: Peter (Jason Segel) and Simon (Eve Lindley). There are still two more players in this particular quartet of game players, and tonight’s hour is devoted to Janice – who’s played by a TV veteran of veterans, and former Gidget star, Sally Field.

2020

Mar

THE SIMPSONS By David Bianculli

During Season 2 of The Simpsons, an episode called “Itchy & Scratchy & Marge” had Marge become a public figure, appearing in newspaper letter pages (remember them, pre-Twitter?) and on TV to protest the violence in the children’s television “Itchy & Scratchy” cartoons. That was back in 1990, and it’s still one of my favorite Simpsons episodes. And now, 30 years later (think of that), there’s a new episode presented tonight

2020

Mar

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

Another primary looms – and so does the coronavirus – as the squad from The Circus dispatches itself across the country to follow the news.

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