The chess game has been reset, and Chuck, Axe and Wendy all are making aggressive moves to reassert their authority. The odds of one of them stepping over the line in tonight’s episode, especially Axe, are… significant.

2018

May

SHOWTIME'S 'THE FOURTH ESTATE' SHOWS NEWS AND SUBJECTS IN A VOLATILE AGE By David Hinckley

One of the many contradictions of unaffiliated journalism is that a troubling message can be good news for the messenger. Showtime’s new documentary series The Fourth Estate makes that point explicitly and implicitly...

2018

May

HBO STAYS IN A FUN-FREE ZONE WITH ITS LATEST ORIGINAL FILM, 'THE TALE' By Ed Bark

Last month’s Paterno starred Al Pacino as the legendary Penn State coach...Now comes The Tale which recounts director/writer Jennifer Fox’s real-life recovered memories of her sexual abuse as a 13-year-old...

2018

May

'THE TALE' IS A DISTURBING TRUE STORY THAT IS IMPORTANT VIEWING By David Hinckley

When a show is slotted for 10 o’clock Saturday night on a holiday weekend, it’s usually a good indication someone at the network thinks it’s going to be a hard watch...

2018

May

PATRICK MELROSE By David Bianculli

This is the third episode of this intense, searingly acted semi-autobiographical story by Edward St Aubyn, who used his Patrick Melrose novels and alter ego to exorcise some very traumatic childhood memories and demons. Benedict Cumberbatch stars in the title role – and, in flashbacks, Hugo Weaving and Jennifer Jason Leigh are riveting, and sometimes revolting, as young Patrick’s well-to-do, but seldom doing well, parents.

2018

May

2018 NBA CONFERENCE FINALS By David Bianculli

The Golden State Warriors are the defending champions of the NBA, but they might not even make this year’s Finals, unless they defeat the come-from-behind, now-ahead Houston Rockets in tonight’s Game 6. The Rockets have a 3-2 edge in games in this West conference championship, and the Warriors’ only chance of repeating as champions is to win tonight and force a Game 7, then win that – then win in the finals. Tonight’s game marks the first step. Or the last.

2018

May

THE TALE By David Bianculli

MOVIE PREMIERE: Laura Dern has had, and continues to have, a long and storied career as a movie actress. But on TV, of late, she’s found and delivered many of her most challenging and impressive roles: as Renata on HBO’s Big Little Lies, Diane on Showtime’s Twin Peaks reboot, Amy in HBO’s Enlightened, Katherine Harris in HBO’s Recount, and… need I go on? Okay, I will, long ago, to her playing the title role in HBO’s Citizen Ruth and, famously, the

2018

May

PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK By David Bianculli

MINISERIES PREMIERE: Peter Weir shot his haunting version of Picnic at Hanging Rock on location in 1975, making a dreamily moody movie in Australia that gave him, and the Australian movie industry, a major boost. Based on a short novel that some people (but not all) believe was based on fact, it now stars Natalie Dormer as Mrs. Appleyard – the owner of a young girls’ finishing school in 1900, where, on Valentine’s Day, some of her students, and one of her teachers, mysteriously

2018

May

STEVE MARTIN AND MARTIN SHORT: AN EVENING YOU’LL FORGET FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE By David Bianculli

SPECIAL PREMIERE: Steve Martin and Martin Short have been amigos ever since Three Amigos, and their easy rapport translates smoothly, and hilariously, into their duet music and comedy performances together – which they’ve done, in various venues and using various excuses for teaming up, for years now. This TV special codifies some of their punch lines, set pieces and byplay, and has fun from the start. (Martin introduces Short as “as much fun as a barrel of monkeys… but

2018

May

2018 NBA CONFERENCE FINALS By David Bianculli

This is Game 6 in the Eastern conference championship, and the Boston Celtics have a 3-2 edge in games against the Cleveland Cavaliers. One more win, and the Celtics are in the 2018 NBA Finals. However, If LeBron James and the Cavaliers can bounce back from last night’s listless loss, win tonight’s game and tie the series, then Game 7, with the entrance to the finals on the line, will be played Sunday night.

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