MINISERIES PREMIERE: David Simon and Ed Gross, who teamed up for The Wire, are back with this HBO miniseries adaptation of Philip Roth’s disturbing novel. Like The Man in the High Castle, it offers an alternative history in the years around WWII – in Roth’s case, a hypothetical exploration of what might have happened had celebrity pilot Charles Lindbergh run for president and beaten FDR, and instituted what were increasingly isolationist and anti-Semitic pol

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DISPATCHES FROM ELSEWHERE By David Bianculli

Each episode of Elsewhere, so far, has highlighted one of the four central players in this show’s mysterious central game. Tonight’s episode, the fourth, continues the pattern by following the final member of the puzzle-solving quartet: the oddly named, oddly acting Fredwynn (played by Andre Benjamin).

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'THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA' IS A DIFFICULT BUT NECESSARY SERIES TO WATCH By David Hinckley

Treating all persons equally has not always been a hallmark of American behavior. About the best we can say is that over the years we've gotten better and anyway, we were never as bad as Stalinist Russia or Hitler's Germany or Mao's China...

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SEASON TWO OF 'BLACK MONDAY' ARRIVES ON SHOWTIME By Mike Hughes

This is the sort of timing that no one could plan – we hope...

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FROZEN 2 By David Bianculli

Three months earlier than scheduled, Disney Plus is making Frozen 2, the most popular animated movie in history, available on its streaming site. Beginning today, Disney Plus subscribers can watch Elsa and company work through their issues by counting on family – a message, and delivery system, Disney wants to distribute widely in this new age of “social distancing.” Frozen 2 has a global box office of $1.4 billlion – and that total was amassed as peop

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CNN DEMOCRATIC DEBATE By David Bianculli

This is worth watching, for sure, because it’s television history in so many ways. Two weeks ago, it seemed like news was moving at breakneck speed as the Democrats quickly winnowed its field down to two major candidates, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. Then came last week, when coronavirus concerns upended the way we all go about our daily lives. So tonight, the previously scheduled debate – the first mano a mano between Biden and Sanders – will still be held, but back

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

If this installment is presented as scheduled, with new documentary footage covering the week in politics, I’m not sure how they’ll do it. Or what it will show. But when this series selected its subtitle, it had no idea how amazingly prescient it was being.

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ZOEY'S EXTRAORDINARY PLAYLIST By David Bianculli

Zoey had a musical moment with Simon in her apartment in last week’s episode, in which he flirted with flirting with her as his internal singing voice belted out “Should I Stay Or Should I Go?” And now, with that romantic tension unresolved, Simon and Jessica hold their wedding. Expect lots of music, and not just from the wedding singer.

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THE WALKING DEAD By David Bianculli

The assault on Hilltop went all-out last week, with our characters caught, at the cliffhanger climax, between a rock and a hard place. Except, in this instance, the rock was a wall of flame keeping them from retreating, and the hard place was a horde of still-advancing zombies.

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WESTWORLD By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: The Season 3 premiere of this big-budget HBO series is set in the “real world” of this somewhat dystopian, completely economically divided future, with Evan Rachel Wood’s vengeful robot Dolores, most prominently, infiltrating the glossy reality of her wealthy creators. Eventually, we’ll get back to the theme parks, and spend more time with Jeffrey Wright as Bernard, while introducing a new character, Caleb, played by Aaron Paul from Breaking Bad

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