Last time Amy Adams played a character who returned to her small-town home to deal with parental issues, the result was a really nice and rather sweet movie called Trouble With the Curve...

2018

Jul

WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? By David Bianculli

Mondays, this summer, have become the slowest night of TV on TV. And in this small but scorching desert of dog-day summer viewing, one of the reliable, pleasant oases is this long-running improv show. It makes you laugh, without fail. And that means, week in and week out, Whose Line never fails.

2018

Jul

DIETLAND By David Bianculli

In tonight’s new episode, Plum (Joy Nash), after many weeks of trying to either alter or embrace her outer self, finally finds her inner self – and she’s channeling the spirit of Howard Beale from Network. “I’m fat as hell,” she announces defiantly, “and I’m not gonna take it any more.” That’s not a direct quote from the Paddy Chayefsky movie – but it is an exact quote from tonight’s Dietland.

2018

Jul

THE 2000S: "THE PLATINUM AGE OF TELEVISION" By David Bianculli

I didn’t know until last week, when I previewed the opening episode of CNN’s latest deep dive into various decades, that the episode had taken its title from my latest book: The Platinum Age of Television. How nice. And it’s also nice that this two-hour episode makes such a strong case for my central thesis, that television has matured mightily in around this current century. So many superb interviewees are shown speaking on the subject, including Breaking Bad creator Vince Gil

2018

Jul

POSE By David Bianculli

Tonight’s episode is called “Love Is the Message,” and the message is clear: In one subplot, Pray Tell visits the AIDS ward at a local hospital. Not as a patient, or as a grieving loved one – but as the organizer of a mood-bolstering cabaret concert.

2018

Jul

SHARP OBJECTS By David Bianculli

MINISERIES PREMIERE: Amy Adams stars in this new HBO miniseries, based on the first novel by Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn, and directed by Jean-Marc Vallee, who directed HBO’s similarly dark and moody Big Little Lies. There’s a mystery afoot, about missing and murdered young girls, and Adams plays a troubled newspaper reporter who returns to her small home town to investigate. Adams, all sullen and scarred – physically as well as emotionally – delivers the best performa

2018

Jul

SUCCESSION By David Bianculli

The vote of no confidence against Logan is on the horizon, and the horizon is approaching rapidly – so Roman sets his sights on influencing a somewhat neutral board member. This new episode’s title, appropriately, is: “Which Side Are You On?”

2018

Jul

HBO STILL NOT LIFTING THE GLOOM WITH 'SHARP OBJECTS' By Ed Bark

There’s a bar called Cheer Up Charlies in Austin, TX. HBO needs to go there...

2018

Jul

SOME FRESH SUMMER PROGRAMMING, SORT OF – 'POWER' RETURNS TO STARZ By David Hinckley

A couple of years ago, when it became clear the sheer volume of television programming had sped past any human capacity to watch it all, there was some rumbling about summer no longer giving us a breather...

2018

Jul

2018 FIFA WORLD CUP By David Bianculli

Okay, come on. Were you watching yesterday? Belgium knocking out Brazil 2-1, with some great goalkeeping and an astounding fast-break, pitch-long counterattack? France beating the imposing, usually dominant Uruguay 2-0? The 2018 World Cup has become such a wide-open, wild-west affair that anything can happen, and, in many ways, already has. The list of toppled giants and dispatched favorites, by now, is so long that of all the teams still standing, only two of them have won a single World Cup in

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