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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2020
Apr
6
BETTER CALL SAUL By David Bianculli
 
 
So “Saul” and Kim are married now. And Mike Ehrmentraut and Gus Fring are officially seeking vengeance together. And look which familiar, foreboding faces are showing up tonight (see photo). But what that all means for the final installments of this season’s Better Call Saul, I have no idea. But I do know this: Come awards time next year, if there are TV awards next year, Better Call Emmy…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
6
THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA By David Bianculli
 
 
In Episode 4 of this David Simon and Ed Gross miniseries, based on the novel by Philip Roth, the war gets closer – and the prejudice against Jews in the new American homeland becomes more pronounced.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
6
DISPATCHES FROM ELSEWHERE By David Bianculli
 
 
There aren’t many shows, in the history of television, where you can reach their halfway point and still not know where they’re going, or have any idea where they might end up. Dispatches from Elsewhere is just such a TV program, so treasure it. And keep watching, since we’re now up to Episode 7.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
5
'THE WINDERMERE CHILDREN,' THE MOVING STORY OF TRYING TO HELP CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST REBUILD THEIR LIVES By David Hinckley
 
 
The Windermere Children is a Holocaust story with as happy an ending as any Holocaust story can have...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
5
LATE-NIGHT CONTINUES TO DELIVER BEST MEDICINE By Eric Gould
 
 

When faced with the unknown, you might as well laugh...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
5
GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET: "AKHNATEN" By David Bianculli
 
 
Back in the mid-1970s, I was introduced to Philip Glass – not the composer, but his music – by my very good friend Mark Clark, who used to run the classical music section at the local Peaches record store in Fort Lauderdale. He was helping me move from one Gainesville college location to another, and we had rented a cheap moving truck with no radio. So we set up two portable radios, one at my old place, one at the new one, and tuned them to the same radio station, so we could listen
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
5
AN ADDRESS BY HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN By David Bianculli
 
 
Here in the U.S., we’ve either watched, or avoided, every day, the live briefings by President Donald Trump as he addresses our country about the coronavirus. Today, thanks to a simulcast by BBC America, we get to see how another country, and world figure, handles things. In prime time in the U.K. on the BBC, Her Majesty the Queen, at age 92, is addressing her followers on the coronavirus crisis – and because our time zones here in the colonies are hours earlier, we get to watch her
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
5
ATLANTA'S MISSING AND MURDERED: THE LOST CHILDREN By David Bianculli
 
 
DOCUMENTARY SERIES PREMIERE: This new five-part documentary takes a long, hard look at a cold case that has gotten very heated since it was reopened, 40 years after its nationally prominent exposure. At least 30 African-American children and young adults were murdered, or vanished, in Atlanta between 1979 and 1981 – and the vast majority of those cases were closed without being solved. This new HBO series follows the case as it’s reopened, and sheds light on some very dark places.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
5
ZOEY'S EXTRAORDINARY PLAYLIST By David Bianculli
 
 
Last week, Zoey was at the doctor’s appointment where her father was given the news he probably had only weeks to live, as his degenerative condition was getting even worse. She reacted by developing a “glitch” in her recently discovered hidden power: instead of hearing and seeing the inner thoughts of others revealed in song, she was now revealing her own thoughts by breaking out into song and dance. But without control. And, unlike the fantasy-world behavior she’s witne
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Apr
5
MORE MUSIC TO ENJOY FROM THE SAFETY OF HOME By Mike Hughes
 
 
TV's music-from-home trend is getting a double boost, with two shows returning...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
New From TVWW

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'
By Ed Bark
 
 
 
 
Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver
By Christy Slewinski
 
 
 
 
'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy
By Noel Holston
 
 
 
 

Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James
By Mike Hughes
 
 
 
 
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self
By Monique Nazareth
 
 
 
 
Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption
By David Hinckley