When AMC’s Better Call Saul returns at 9 p.m. ET Monday for the fourth episode of its fourth season, here’s what it would have to do to top the peak moment in last week’s third episode.

2018

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'AMERICA TO ME' LOOKS AT RACIAL INEQUITIES THROUGH THE EYES OF STUDENTS By David Hinckley

America To Me, an unsentimental examination of race relations at a high school on the outskirts of Chicago, reminds us bluntly that having all the pieces on the board doesn’t mean you’ve solved the puzzle...

2018

Aug

2018 LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONSHIP By David Bianculli

Hawaii has had a tough time of it this year, what with volcanic eruptions and suturing hurricanes. But the Honolulu Little League has given the chain of islands reason for celebration – and in this global tournament of talented youngsters, has gone all the way. Today on ABC, Hawaii faces South Seoul, the South Korean team, for the 2018 Little League Championship title. Oh, poi! Can’t wait!

2018

Aug

SHARP OBJECTS By David Bianculli

MINISERIES FINALE: Tonight is the night we find out, for certain, the identity of the murderer who has been targeting teen girls in Wind Gap. If Camille (Amy Adams) is right, at least one of the perpetrators, like one of the victims, is very, very close to home. By the way, if you’ve been watching this miniseries with a keen eye towards its creepily shifting visuals, and noticing the words that occasionally appear in odd places – perhaps as mood-reflecting hallucinations from Camille

2018

Aug

WHO IS AMERICA? By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: Sacha Baron Cohen’s new series has pranked so many public figures so successfully that there may or may not be a Season 2. Either way, that makes this final installment of Season 1 a swing-for-the-fences episode for Cohen – and, perhaps, the one in which we’ll finally get to see him, in one of his alter egos (pictured), interacting with Sarah Palin, who already has complained about his treatment of her.

2018

Aug

AMERICA TO ME By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY SERIES PREMIERE: Steve James, who made the affecting and insightful documentary Hoop Dreams about a pair of talented high school basketball players, returns to high school for this new nonfiction series. For an entire school year, he immersed himself in the lives of students, parents and teachers at suburban Chicago’s Oak Park and River Forest High School, to observe whether its policy of school integration was as widely effective as expected. The answer? No. Not if you look cl

2018

Aug

FOR AN EARLY FACEBOOK WATCH EFFORT, 'STRANGERS' IS WORTH THE BINGE By David Hinckley

If you’re looking to fill television’s end-of-summer dead zone with something you missed, you might consider Strangers, which has proven itself to be smarter than the average sitcom...

2018

Aug

MEN AT WORK? IN THE ONGOING #METOO WAVE, NOT SO MUCH AND NOT SURPRISINGLY SO By Ed Bark

For decade upon decade, television networks maled it in, mostly with white men...

2018

Aug

‘AMERICA’S GOT TALENT’: A TV TONIC FOR TROUBLED TIMES, FAMILY TV AT ITS BEST By Alex Strachan

It’s too late to expect Tyra Banks to stop asking America’s Got Talent contestants, “How do you feel?” or its variant, “What are your feelings?” every time a contestant is advanced or eliminated...

2018

Aug

2018 LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES By David Bianculli

Both the International and U.S. Finals are played today, in games that will decide who plays in tomorrow’s championship contest. At 12:30 p.m. ET, in the International Finals, it’s Japan vs. Asia-Pacific (South Korea). That’s followed at 3:30 p.m. ET by the U.S. Finals, with the Southeast team from Peachtree City, GA facing the West team, the undefeated Hawaii squad. The winners advance to tomorrow’s ultimate game of the 2018 season.

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