It seems self-explanatory, let alone unnecessary, but there it is: The second night of Ken Burns’ The Vietnam War opens with a viewer advisory. Discretion is advised...

2017

Sep

THE 69TH PRIMETIME EMMY AWARDS By David Bianculli

SPECIAL: Stephen Colbert hosts this year’s Emmy Awards ceremony, which will end dramatically because of a scheduling quirk. Because of a long break between seasons of Game of Thrones, that HBO series, which won Outstanding Drama Series the past two years, isn’t eligible. That makes the field more wide open for the other contenders, only one of which, NBC’s This Is Us, emanates from a broadcast network. The others: AMC’s Better Call Saul (my favorite); Hulu’s The Han

2017

Sep

THE ORVILLE By David Bianculli

This second episode of The Orville gets closer to what this new live-action Seth MacFarlane series intends to be – which, apparently, is a lighthearted but surprisingly sincere salute to the Star Trek series of old. Tonight’s episode, for example, has MacFarlane’s starship Captain Ed Mercer being captured for an interstellar zoo, and placed in exhibit with an attractive female. It’s a plot so old, in Star Trek lore, that it was used in the show’s original pilot &nda

2017

Sep

THE VIETNAM WAR By David Bianculli

MINISERIES PREMIERE: I don’t think, in a decade of TV Worth Watching, we’ve ever blanketed coverage of a single program the way we are on The Vietnam War, the newest mega-documentary series from filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Most of that is due to how impressive, important and captivating this story, and this TV series, is – and the rest is due to the stellar taste, and inexhaustible commitment, of many of the TVWW contributors. Read, in particular, the various Vietnam

2017

Sep

THE DEUCE By David Bianculli

This evocative new series from David Simon and company presents its second episode tonight, opposite the Emmy Awards. Next year at this time, it’ll be competing for those awards – and Maggie Gyllenhaal pretty much is a lock, already, as a nominee for Best Actress. Tonight, she, and other characters in The Deuce, get their first taste of the porn loops that are making the rounds in New York… and wonder how to get in on some of that lucrative, X-rated action.

2017

Sep

RAY DONOVAN By David Bianculli

Abby (Paula Malcomson) continues down her very sad path, as she and her family deal with her increasingly alarming health problems. And for some reason, tonight’s episode is given the title of one of my favorite actresses from the 1970s and 1980s: “Shelley Duvall.”

2017

Sep

EPISODES By David Bianculli

This series is showing its final few episodes of Episodes – but as this real-life TV series starring Matt LeBlanc is coming to an end, its plot concerns the development of one final Matt LeBlanc series.

2017

Sep

VICE PRINCIPALS By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Danny McBride and Walton Goggins are back for Season 2 of Vice Principals. Their rivalry is over, sort of, and one has ascended to the seat both had coveted. But this season shifts from competition to investigation, as they team up to solve this show’s new, central mystery.

2017

Sep

'THE VIETNAM WAR,' EPISODE 1: "DÉJÀ VU (1858-1961)” By Alex Strachan

Beginning tonight, (Sunday, September 17) TVWW's Alex Strachan will file daily previews of the new nightly Ken Burns documentary, The Vietnam War. This first of the 10-episode series opens with a look back at the pre-war conditions in the former "French Indochina"...

2017

Sep

LA LA LAND By David Bianculli

Damien Chazelle wrote and directed this very affectionate homage to the movie musical – and tonight is a wonderful TV night to wallow in the form. One prominent option, of course, is this 2016 film, the most recent movie musical to convince Hollywood that maybe there’s life in this old form yet. Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling play, respectively, an aspiring actress and a struggling jazz pianist, both of whom have dreams of success – among other dreams, including ones about one ano

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