Part 2 of this galactic showdown has the S.H.I.E.L.D. crew hamstrung, and seemingly helpless, against Sarge, who may help them save the planet – but at a very significant cost. And the fact that this big bad villain, who has no problem threatening them at gunpoint and even shooting them, looks exactly like their former, heroic boss.

2019

Jul

JETT By David Bianculli

Jett has turned out to be a fun summer series – fast-moving, stylish, hard to predict, and fueled by some tasty performances, specifically Giancarlo Esposito and Gil Bellows as bad guys and, of course, Carla Gugino as this show’s resourceful, morally mysterious, sticky-fingered protagonist.

2019

Jul

GROUND CONTROL TO MAJOR CHRIS By David Bianculli

For the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing tomorrow, one of the cuts we played on Fresh Air today (Friday, July 19), was audio of Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, singing his version of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity". The sound is great, but to get to the full impact — as more than 43 million people have done on YouTube — you have to see the 2013 video...

2019

Jul

IZOMBIE By David Bianculli

Tonight’s episode finds a way for Liv (Rose McIver) to approach the latest murder case like an old-fashioned gumshoe – which means analogy-heavy narration and black-and-white photography. In other words, it’s a rare crossover subgenre: zombie noir.

2019

Jul

STAND BY ME By David Bianculli

This 1986 movie, directed by Rob Reiner, is another example of how the son of Carl Reiner has helmed, in many different genres, successful films (stylistically as well as financially) that show him to be a very gifted director. He’s perfect at being faithful to each film’s central conceit and flavor, and just as good working with actors, whether working on The Princess Bride, Misery, or This Is Spinal Tap! And with this coming-of-age period drama, based on a Steph

2019

Jul

HARLOTS By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This series is set in London, about 20 years before the American revolution, and in its first two seasons has delighted in the power plays of the owners and operators of rival British brothels. The owners, like the prostitutes, are female (well, most of them), and their rises and falls here are substantial. Winners get to hobnob in the Royal Court, while losers get locked up in Bedlam. But in this new Season 3, those dynamics change again, quickly and significantly – not o

2019

Jul

LOVE ISLAND By David Bianculli

Just in case you watched and liked it last night – remember, this show appears each weeknight on CBS this summer, so it’s here, too…

2019

Jul

2019 ESPY AWARDS By David Bianculli

SPECIAL: The annual mashup of sports and entertainment, with athletes rubbing elbows and fashion with actors, rappers and rock stars, is televised by both ABC and ESPN -- and hosted by Tracy Morgan.

2019

Jul

FLORIDA GIRLS By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: The characters and lifestyle from My Name Is Earl have a trailer-trash spiritual descendant in Florida Girls, a new comedy from Pop TV that’s basically about the type of women you might see, with blurred-out faces or speech, on any Florida episode of COPS. Lauren Chinn created this series, and stars as Shelby, one of a handful of twentysomething friends who live in a small Florida town with more goals and dreams than GEDs. As a summer TV diver

2019

Jul

'BLACK MIRROR' CONTINUES TO RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, REFLECTING THE BEST — AND WORST — SIDES OF OUR NATURE By Alex Strachan

For all the different ways Black Mirror depicts its dystopian worlds...one theme keeps emerging: For all technology’s advances, and some of them are truly astonishing, those advances always bring with them unintended consequences...

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