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2019
Aug
13
AGT'S ODE TO SUMMER JOY FOR TROUBLED TIMES By Alex Strachan
 
 
Silly question: Might America's Got Talent, or AGT to the converted, be the single most important program on television right now?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Aug
13
STAND BY ME By David Bianculli
 
 
The Ides of August, traditionally, are the deadest time of the entire TV year. In the ancient Roman calendar, the Ides fell in the middle of the month on March 15, May 15, July 15, and October 15 – and on other months of the year, on the 13th. So today, truly, is the Ides of August. And things are so dull tonight that the one thing worth pointing out tonight is a 1986 movie: Rob Reiner’s Stand By Me, based on the Stephen King story “The Body.” Stars include Wil
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Aug
12
UNDERSTANDING WHO WE ARE BY LOOKING THROUGH OUR 'FAMILY PICTURES USA' By Mike Hughes
 
 
LOS ANGELES – We all know what Florida is like. Or we think we do. "Everybody thinks we're white sand beaches and Mickey Mouse," Clint Raulerson (of Southwest Florida) said...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Aug
12
'OUR BOYS' IS BASED ON THE TRUE STORY OF REVENGE THAT LED TO WAR By David Hinckley
 
 
Our Boys, a dramatized retelling of the fallout from a triple kidnapping/murder in Israel in 2014, plays like the popular American Crime Story series on steroids...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Aug
12
'THE TERROR: INFAMY' RECALLS WHAT PEOPLE ARE CAPABLE OF DOING TO ONE ANOTHER By David Hinckley
 
 
Season 2 of AMC’s The Terror anthology series delivers the requisite supernatural horror. But the real horror in The Terror: Infamy lies outside the purview of demons. It lies in what people do to each other...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Aug
12
GEORGE TAKEI ADDS HIS PERSONAL EXPERIENCE TO 'THE TERROR: INFAMY' ON AMC By Mike Hughes
 
 
LOS ANGELES – Like most of George Takei's shows, The Terror: Infamy is a fictional tale. He's done a lot of them, before and after becoming a Star Trek star, a half-century ago. But this one is different...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Aug
12
THE TERROR: INFAMY By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: In 1941, the time in which this second season of AMC’s anthology horror series The Terror is set, the date which would live in infamy was December 7, the day Japanese forces bombed Pearl Harbor. This 10-episode Season 2, like its predecessor, adds a malevolent supernatural element to an already foreboding setting and historical moment. Last season, it was an ice-bound ship surrounded by mysterious, deadly forces. In Infamy, it follows a Japanese-America
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Aug
12
OUR BOYS By David Bianculli
 
 
MINISERIES PREMIERE: The first two episodes of Our Boys are presented back-to-back tonight – and that will be more enough to see if you’ll be pulled into the deliberately paced, methodically recreated case that further inflamed tensions in and around the West Bank after a trio of Israeli teens, making their way home from an Israeli settlement in the West Bank, were kidnapped and held hostage by Palestinians. Filmed in Israel, this HBO-Israeli production is a team effort by
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Aug
12
LEGION By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES FINALE: Legion is one of my favorite series on TV, and it goes out as it came in: boldly, wildly, inventively, unforgettably. I’ve seen tonight’s final episode, and all I can say – all I want to say, until you’ve had a chance to see and enjoy it for yourself – is that Noah Hawley and company totally stick the landing. (If there’s a second edition of my Finales collection about TV series endings, I’m claiming Legi
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Aug
12
LODGE 49 By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: There’s a new boss at Lodge 49 this season, and he’s not the same as the old boss. Not even close. And the changes he begins to implement are even more rattling than what the members of the Fraternal Order of the Lynx are used to enduring. And remember, that list of indignities includes shark attacks…
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'
By Ed Bark
 
 
 
 
Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver
By Christy Slewinski
 
 
 
 
'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy
By Noel Holston
 
 
 
 

Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James
By Mike Hughes
 
 
 
 
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self
By Monique Nazareth
 
 
 
 
Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption
By David Hinckley