This story, which is well worth the time devoted to watch it slowly reveal its secrets and subtleties, continues tonight. More great performances, more disturbing revelations – and more very impressive writing.

2015

Mar

ARCHER By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: Part 1 of 2. This year, Archer ends its season going out with a very small idea: miniaturizing the agents and sending them on a scaled-down mission, as in the classic movie Fantastic Voyage. Expect, in this episode called “Drastic Voyage,” some fantastic laughs.

2015

Mar

A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN By David Bianculli

Major league baseball used to play all its games during the day, and stage a lot more doubleheaders than it does now. But tonight, at least, Sundance presents a baseball doubleheader of baseball-themed movies – and though these films are played at night, they’re both worth watching. The action begins at 7 p.m. ET, with this 1992 movie starring Tom Hanks as a major-league baseball veteran forced to oversee a women’s team during WWII. Geena Davis, Madonna and Rosie O’Donnel

2015

Mar

AMERICAN IDOL By David Bianculli

Now that Empire is gone for the rest of the season, American Idol can reclaim Wednesdays, and expand to a two-hour edition – the better with which to showcase the Top 9 finalists. This week’s show has a 1980s theme.

2015

Mar

THE AMERICANS By David Bianculli

I would have thought that tensions on this series couldn't get ratcheted much higher – then I watched last week’s episode. And now I’m concerned for almost every major character in this show, because they’ve all managed to put themselves in danger, whether of death, discovery or making a very serious wrong move.

2015

Mar

THE NATURAL By David Bianculli

Barry Levinson directed this 1984 baseball fable, which stars Robert Redford as an unusually gifted, and unusually old, “rookie,” and Kim Basinger and Glenn Close as the women in his life who have an influence on how he plays. Robert Duvall and Wilford Brimley are only the cream of a crop of fabulous character actors in this film – and the music, by Randy Newman, is another home-run aspect of this thoroughly beautiful movie.

2015

Mar

BIG TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, FL By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: “This is a crazy show.” One character says that during tonight’s inaugural episode, capping a sequence that already had made me laugh out loud – twice. This new 10-part comedy series, with a continuing story line, is from Alex Anfanger and Dan Schimpf, creators of the web series Next Time on Lonny, and bring to Comedy Central the same winning brand of dazzling unpredictability and cinematic fluency. You won’t be able to predict what comes next, exce

2015

Mar

ALAN ARKIN: LIVE FROM THE TCM CLASSIC FILM FESTIVAL By David Bianculli

What a nice evening. Alan Arkin is saluted tonight, first with an interview conducted specifically for TCM at their annual film festival, and then with a generous roster of his films. The interview starts at 8 p.m. ET, followed at 9 by the 1979 comedy The In-Laws, in which Arkin co-stars with Peter Falk. Other films follow, including one early thriller well worth recording and saving for later: 1967’s Wait Until Dark, in which he plays a very bad guy terrorizing a blind young woman, played

2015

Mar

JAMES BAKER: THE MAN WHO MADE WASHINGTON WORK By David Bianculli

This new documentary profile looks at the career, and political tactics, of James Baker, who worked for several U.S. Presidents – running President Gerald Ford’s re-election campaign, serving as chief of staff (among other posts) for both Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, and even serving as chief legal counsel to George W. Bush during the 2000 election recount. Though Baker served on the Republican side, the title of this study suggests and recalls an era, apparently a distant mem

2015

Mar

MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. By David Bianculli

Even more intrigue and distrust surfaces this week, as Agent 33, who still has the face of Agent Melinda May (well, most of her face, anyway), makes another appearance. Other agents, meanwhile, prove just as two-faced, as dynamics and allegiances are tested, and betrayed, once again.

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