Last week, Daenerys Targaryen ordered that an invitation be attached to Jon Snow, for him to visit her kingdom and bend a knee. And he’s announced his intention to visit, so these two popular and powerful Game of Thrones figures may meet tonight at last. And that’s not the only new alliance, or confrontation, likely to take place in this week’s episode.

2017

Jul

TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN By David Bianculli

The descriptions for each week’s episode of Twin Peaks: The Return have gotten aggressively minimalistic, and recently have been reduced to two or three words. But the two words attached to tonight’s Episode 12 are especially intriguing. The words are “Let’s rock” – and they’re the same words spoken by the Man from Another Place, the dancing little person in the red room of the Black Lodge, as he introduced himself to Dale Cooper back in the original Twi

2017

Jul

REMEMBER ME By David Bianculli

MINISERIES CONCLUSION: This three-part miniseries concludes, with Michael Palin’s Tom finally revealed for what he is. Which, for now, remains this show’s central mystery. Check local listings.

2017

Jul

LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER By David Bianculli

SERIES RETURN: John Oliver has been on a brief hiatus, but he returns tonight, to wrap up the week’s news events into a half-hour entertainment show. Good thing it was a slow news week, so he’ll have an easy time easing his way back into the swing of things…

2017

Jul

REEXAMINING THE ‘SON OF SAM’ CASE ON SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL By David Hinckley

For people who lived in New York in the mid-1970s, there has never been a more visceral example of homegrown terror than the Son of Sam case...

2017

Jul

CINEMATOGRAPHERS AND DIRECTORS: HOW A CAMERAMAN’S CALL MADE ‘BETTER CALL SAUL’ BETTER By Alex Strachan

The look of a show, its very feel, is as much a signature of that show as the way it’s put together, the way the story is told...

2017

Jul

KEN BURNS' 'VIETNAM', CONGRESSIONAL FUNDING, MAIN PBS SUBJECTS AT TCA By Ed Bark

For the past decade, Ken Burns and his producing partner, Lynn Novick, clung as best they could to what he calls "this bucking bronco", their Vietnam War documentary...

2017

Jul

TCA, DAY 4 -- FROM ELISABETH MOSS TO THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN By Ed Bark

A funny thing happened on the way to this forum...

2017

Jul

SOME LIKE IT HOT By David Bianculli

Today on The Essentials, Tony Curtis is being saluted, and the salute begins with 1959’s Some Like It Hot, which may be his ultimate acting showcase. After all, Curtis effectively plays three roles in this comedy, which has him and Jack Lemmon playing jazz musicians who witness a mob hit and go on the lam by impersonating members of a women’s orchestra. Another member of that orchestra is played by Marilyn Monroe, and Curtis also portrays a wealthy fop, adopting an obvious Cary Grant

2017

Jul

ORPHAN BLACK By David Bianculli

There aren’t that many episodes left for this series, and the confrontations are getting more tense every week. Tonight, Rachel has her eye on Sarah’s daughter, Kira – and when I say eye, I’m not overestimating.

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