Based on what happened politically this week, this behind-the-scenes political documentary is mandatory viewing. Watching everyone’s real-time reactions, from the reporters covering the story at ground level (and, at times, underground level) to the politicians reacting to, or ignoring, the camera and questions, is as fascinating as it is illuminating.

2017

May

THE LAST 100 DAYS OF DIANA By David Bianculli

Lots of networks are serving up 20th anniversary specials noting the 1997 death of Princess Diana. This being ABC, it’s the only one able to present lengthy excerpts from one of her last and most famous interviews, with Martin Bashir – whose updated report is part of this ABC special, which, while taking time to provide a longer perspective, focuses in depth on the princess’ final 100 days. Terry Wrong, behind so many of ABC’s exemplary medical documentary series, is one

2017

May

AMERICAN GODS By David Bianculli

Episode two of this new series from Bryan Fuller, based on the novel by Neil Gaiman, is just as outlandish and convoluted as the premiere – but it adds enough new players and characters to the mix to make things much more interesting. Orlando Jones starts things off with a searing monologue, delivered to barely comprehending prisoners aboard a slave ship – and before the hour is over, other gods and demigods and false gods will be played by Cloris Leachman (pictured, with series co-s

2017

May

BILLIONS By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: Last week’s episode was a very smart shocker. The entire hour led you to believe – misled you to believe, really – that in their ruthless game of high-stakes financial chess, Damian Lewis’ billionaire Axe was the master manipulator, holding the upper hand against Paul Giamatti’s government district attorney Chuck. Then, in the last surprise moments, the truth was revealed like an unexpected magic trick: Chuck had been one step ahead of Axe all along,

2017

May

VEEP By David Bianculli

Last week, Selina (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) bulldozed her way through an episode that had her overseeing a political election in Georgia (not the U.S. one) and sitting for a presidential portrait. Both plots provided her a rich trove of physical comedy and verbal assaults, as well as many of the sharpest one-liners of the season. Vowing revenge to a former underling whose congressional vote denied her the presidency, Selina got right in his face and snarled, “I will destroy you in ways s

2017

May

LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER By David Bianculli

There were many weeks, when this show was about to start, that I hoped John Oliver would devote his air time and energies to some story besides President Donald Trump and the latest headlines out of Washington. Now I hope he will talk about them, because I need the perspective as much as I need the laughs.

2017

May

WHOLE LATTE LOVE By Eric Gould

The rumors have been out there for a while, but once it became public this week that MSNBC Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are engaged, it didn’t take sister channel NBC too long to roll out the satire on Saturday Night Live...

2017

May

‘BATMAN & BILL’ TELLS THE STORY OF THE BATTLING CREATORS OF THE CAPED CRUSADER By David Hinckley

Hulu’s new documentary Batman & Bill should engage even the casual comic book fan because, like all the best Batman capers, it has a solid villain...

2017

May

BATMAN & BILL By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: Comic books would be nothing without their various superheroes’ “origin stories,” and this documentary is nothing less than an origin story, with a built-in sequel, about the creation of the DC Comics hero Batman. Bob Kane is the name attached, in early Detective and Batman comics and in tie-in movie credits, to the earliest incarnation of the Dark Knight – but in this new documentary, author and comic-book fan Marc Tyler Nobleman turns detectiv

2017

May

2017 KENTUCKY DERBY By David Bianculli

The Run for the Roses will feature horses running for the coveted flowery necklace for the 143rd time. Well, not the same horses, of course. I’m simply referring to this event, from Churchill Downs in Louisville, KY, as being a long-standing and beloved tradition in the world of horse racing. A horse is a horse, of course, of course – but no horse can run for that long, of course… That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Never Dead...

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