The divide-and-conquer narrative structure of this season’s The Walking Dead continues to pay dividends. Two weeks ago, it was an episode devoted to Eugene. Last week, it was a road trip with Rick and Michonne. And tonight, we spend a lot of time with Carol – different characters, different agendas, very different settings within this show’s post-apocalyptic nightmare world. Tonight’s episode may sport some grave secrets – and based on an image from the network prom

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BIG LITTLE LIES By David Bianculli

This is episode 4, and it’s the episode in which both the therapy sessions and the interactions between the ladies – and men – of this very intense little neighborhood get very intense. Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman star.

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AMERICAN CRIME By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: American Crime is one of those two, two, two-shows-in-one TV hybrids. It’s a miniseries, in that it tells a story with a beginning, middle and end – this season, its third, in eight weekly installments. But it’s also an anthology series, with each season examining a different crime story at length – and, with American Crime, having many core players returning in new roles. One of them is Regina King, who’s already won Supporting Actress Emmys in thi

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FEUD: BETTE AND JOAN By David Bianculli

Episode 2 of this new Feud anthology miniseries from Ryan Murphy – like American Crime, a hybrid anthology series and miniseries – really gets into the dynamics of the battle between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, as they begin filming the 1960s horror film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? This is the episode in which Crawford bares both her insecurities and her fangs – and in which Davis (played by Susan Sarandon), in a brilliant move to upstage her screen co-star, emerges fro

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GIRLS By David Bianculli

This final season of Girls has delivered one excellent, unexpected plot twist after another, from character revelations to the recent mini-play, in which guest star Matthew Rhys played an author either victimized by, or victimizing, Lena Dunham’s Hannah. Tonight, Hannah’s mom, Loreen (played by Becky Ann Baker), comes home to roost – or, at least, her problems and issues do, as Loreen comes to visit after separating from Hannah’s father.

2017

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LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER By David Bianculli

Last week, after doing the expected and unavoidable week’s debriefing on President Donald Trump, John Oliver took a major, and majorly appreciated, left turn, by interviewing the Dalai Lama. What will Oliver do tonight? All I know is I’ll be watching… and grateful for the opportunity.

2017

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CANINE CONFESSIONS By Eric Gould

Conservative observation has it that liberals usually assume everyone’s a critic of the President. See what happens in this SNL sketch when three scientists (including Scarlett Johansson) debut their new invention, a machine that translates for pets...

2017

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OPPOSITE OF ESCAPISM: SEASON 3 OF ABC'S ‘AMERICAN CRIME’ By Ed Bark

Season 3 of American Crime looks like a very tough, if not an impossible sell. Which in its own way is commendable on the part of ABC but not exactly heartening news for the Disney-owned network’s sales force or stockholders...

2017

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SEASON 3 OF ABC’S ‘AMERICAN CRIME’ ADDRESSES THE ISSUES OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS By David Hinckley

To the credit of ABC and creator John Ridley, American Crime is still tackling the tough ones and not pretending any solution is easy...

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CREAM: FAREWELL CONCERT By David Bianculli

Like its dairy namesake, the Sixties supergroup trio Cream turned out to have a very brief shelf life. Guitarist Eric Clapton, bass player Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker released their first album, Fresh Cream, in 1966, and disbanded after Cream’s Royal Albert Hall farewell concert two years later. A TV special was built around the goodbye performance in 1967, but it took decades for a remastered and re-edited version to capture a decent version of that last onstage performance (until

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