Last week’s episode took us up to New Year’s 1985. And now, Candy (Maggie Gyllenhaal) has to tack yet again, shifting to follow the winds to yet another unanticipated direction. The same may as well be said of every other character on this show – the ones who are still alive, that is. Except that Candy’s direction may be swayed by her new boyfriend, a wealthy power player portrayed by Corey Stall.

2019

Sep

OUR BOYS By David Bianculli

In tonight’s episode, the circumstances of Muhammed’s murder are retraced and examined – which lays bare the actual motive behind the killing, and adds both nuance and fuel to an already incendiary true-life case.

2019

Sep

KEN BURNS' 'COUNTRY MUSIC' IS A GRAND OLE OPRY OF A TALE By Ed Bark

Be assured beyond any doubt. You'll get the ring, not the finger, by watching Country Music...

2019

Sep

THE IMPORTANCE OF 'COUNTRY MUSIC' FROM KEN BURNS By David Hinckley

If you imagine that Ken Burns' new PBS epic on country music would revolve around a bunch of grinning white guys wearing cowboy hats, you haven't been paying attention...

2019

Sep

COUNTRY MUSIC By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY SERIES PREMIERE: With his multipart series Jazz, Ken Burns and company made a case for the originality and development of a quintessentially American musical genre. That was 18 years ago. And now, even more confident, accomplished and focused, Burns and his team turn their attention to Country Music, which has roots and tendrils that stretch to even more places in America’s history and emotional memory. Longtime Burns collaborator Dayton Duncan is the writer

2019

Sep

PAUL SHAFFER PLUS ONE By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: I like it when like-minded, and similarly talented, artists get together to talk craft. I liked it, for example, when David Steinberg talked one-on-one with fellow comedians on his talk show Inside Comedy. And now here comes Paul Shaffer, the musical Zelig who ran the bands for both David Letterman’s talk shows and the early Saturday Night Live, not to mention a bunch of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions, talking music one-on-one with a series of mu

2019

Sep

PETER FONDA TRIBUTE By David Bianculli

Peter Fonda died last month, and TCM is devoting tonight’s lineup to a prime-time double feature of his films. Starting things off at 8 p.m. ET is his late-career highlight Ulee’s Gold, from 1997, in which he stars as a loner and beekeeper. Then, at 10 p.m. ET, is his most famous film: 1969’s Easy Rider (pictured), in which he starred as a drug-running hippie biker opposite Dennis Hopper, who also directed, and a young wannabe actor named Jack Nicholson

2019

Sep

SUCCESSION By David Bianculli

The power play in play in tonight’s episode is so ruthless and obvious, and the stakes so high, that calling it a power play minimizes its nastiness. This is no game, and no one is playing.

2019

Sep

COMEDY CENTRAL ROAST OF ALEC BALDWIN By David Bianculli

SPECIAL PREMIERE: Comedy Central champion roastmaster Jeff Ross gives this show’s guest of dishonor, Alec Baldwin, some sharp jabs about his Donald Trump impression on Saturday Night Live – but the most cutting knives of all may come from family. One of the guest roasters is Ireland Baldwin, Alec’s daughter, whom he infamously berated in a nasty voicemail message to her that went public. Tonight: Her revenge, served cold.

2019

Sep

ON BECOMING A GOD IN CENTRAL FLORIDA By David Bianculli

At the climax of last week’s episode, Kirsten Dunst’s Krystal finally discovered the way to get on an equal footing with her FAM home-merchandise-salesman boss Cody, and make him accept her as an equal partner: She slapped him a few times, grabbed him by the neck, dropped him to his knees, and had her way with him in a manner that certainly wasn’t an established part of the FAM system. As a result, this week their teamwork is working on a higher level, and they both get invited

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