SEASON PREMIERE: This series has been around so long that this is the start of competing cycle number 29. That’s a lot of races, amazing or not. But on TV, familiarity, in some cases, breeds not contempt, but indifference. I used to enjoy this show, and watch it faithfully, but a few years ago it just started feeling stale, and much too repetitive. Tonight, this newest edition of Amazing Race shakes things up a bit. Instead of casting duos of friends, lovers, married couples, relativ

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SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE By David Bianculli

I don’t think I’ve ever seen this experimental 1968 film, directed and (sort of) written by William Greaves, scheduled on television before. But certainly, half a century later, it can be viewed as anticipating both the genre of reality TV and such pretend “documentary” projects as The Office, Modern Family and Waiting for Guffman. (If you’re so inclined, and you can remember it, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One also is the perfect movie title to throw into the hat i

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HARLOTS By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This new series, set in London in the late 1700s, tells of a scrappy, social-climbing madam, played by Samantha Morton, whose two daughters represent different strata on the 18th century flesh-trade scale. One is played by Jessica Brown-Findlay (pictured), who recently played Lady Sybil in Downton Abbey. The premiere episode sets up two competing houses of ill repute and a lot of political, sexual and financial intrigue – similar to the dynamics laid out, so to speak, in H

2017

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NATURE: "YOSEMITE" By David Bianculli

Remember the premiere episode of Aaron Sorkin’s Newsroom, when the cable news anchor played by Jeff Daniels was asked why the U.S. was the greatest country in the world? Rather than embrace the question’s jingoistic premise, he instead rattled off a barrage of statistics placing our country much lower, by comparison with many other countries, to everything from universal health care to infant mortality. “I don’t know what… you’re talking about?” he reto

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LEGION By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: It’s not fair to describe too much of what has happened in this series thus far, leading up to tonight’s season finale – because its twists, turns and shifting perspectives makes the protagonist of Mr. Robot look like a reliable narrator of his own story. Just ride with tonight’s episode… and then absorb, dissect, and question.

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NOBODIES By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone are behind this new series, which presents lesser-known comedian friends of that famous married couple, portraying… lesser-known comedian friends of that famous married couple. Rachel Ramras, Hugh Davidson, and Larry Dorf -- all playing exaggerated versions of themselves, as friends of McCarthy’s who are trying to rope her into collaborating with her on a Hollywood project. Good luck with that… even though, in the real w

2017

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FULL FRONTAL WITH SAMANTHA BEE By David Bianculli

Uncle Sam has been so wild and crazy lately, that Aunt Sam ought to really enjoy herself tonight. Or, at least, really work herself into an impressive frenzy…

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HULU'S ‘HARLOTS’ BARES 18TH CENTURY ENGLAND By Ed Bark

Created, executive produced, written and directed entirely by women, Hulu’s Harlots is an equal opportunity flesh-barer with a not so underlying message...

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DESPITE AN ALREADY GUARANTEED SEASON 2, TV LAND'S LIMP ‘NOBODIES’ MIGHT JUST STAY THAT WAY By Ed Bark

A trio of real-life Hollywood grovelers all play themselves in TV Land’s Nobodies, which can be desperately amusing at times but too often comes off as just desperate...

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ABC MIGHT HAVE A MARGINAL WINNER WITH ‘IMAGINARY MARY’ (OR IS IT JUST MY IMAGINATION?) By Ed Bark

“Better than expected” generally isn’t deemed suitable for a network promotional blurb...

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