SEASON PREMIERE: Now this is worth waiting for. This is the Season 21 premiere for South Park, a remarkably long-lived series that, like The Simpsons, continues to not only exist, but to thrive. And since this is the first new episode of South Park since the inauguration, expect irreverence – probably aimed at several directions, starting with (pictured) the white nationalist movement.

2017

Sep

YOU'RE THE WORST By David Bianculli

Last week, the Season 4 premiere of this comedy series focused primarily on Jimmy (Chris Geere) and how he was handling the impulsive breakup that separated Gretchen (Aya Cash) and him just as he was proposing to her. This week, we pay attention to her side of things instead – and to their friends (pictured), also left in a befuddled state after Jimmy’s vanishing act.

2017

Sep

BROAD CITY By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This series returns for Season 4 tonight – and, like South Park, is not arriving without taking note of the Trump era.

2017

Sep

THE UNFINISHED LEGACY OF 'THE VIETNAM WAR' By Gary Edgerton

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s The Vietnam War (2017) begins with a blank screen and the throbbing whirr of helicopter blades... an iconic sound is inextricably linked with Americans remembrance of this still unsettling and unresolved conflict.

2017

Sep

RETURNING FOR ITS FINAL SEASON, WHO KNOWS HOW ‘THE MINDY PROJECT’ WILL END By David Hinckley

It’s tough to preview the final season of The Mindy Project, because pretty much everything would be a spoiler and fans deserve the fun of watching each awkward moment lurch to life on its own...

2017

Sep

‘MANHUNT: UNABOMBER’ PRESENTS NEW INFORMATION EVEN UP TO THE LAST EPISODE By David Hinckley

The Discovery Channel’s Unabomber series promises an explosive ending. Happily, however, says director Greg Yaitanes, the only thing exploding this time will be information...

2017

Sep

THE MINDY PROJECT By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Mindy Kaling returns for her sixth and reportedly final season, and this year her character, Mindy Lahiri, no longer is chasing men or marriage. She’s married now, to Bryan Greenberg’s Ben – so this season is likely to be about how she reacts after achieving her dreams. Or how dreams have a way of changing along the way… For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.

2017

Sep

HAND IN HAND: A BENEFIT FOR HURRICANE RELIEF By David Bianculli

When this benefit fundraising special was announced, it was to help victims in the path of Hurricane Harvey, where the massive rain totals flooded most of Houston and many other places in southern Texas. Then, right behind Harvey geographically and alphabetically, came Hurricane Irma, which moved south to north across Florida and turned this special into a rarity: a two-hurricane relief special. Participants include George Clooney, Barbra Streisand, Beyoncé, George Strait and Blake Shelto

2017

Sep

30 FOR 30: "YEAR OF THE SCAB" By David Bianculli

In this new ESPN 30 for 30 documentary, the year was 1987, and the scabs were the replacement players who came from Canadian teams, or from nowhere, to fulfill dreams of playing pro football in the States by crossing picket lines while regular team players went on strike. Eventually, the focus settles on one team in particular, where the efforts of these often maligned replacement players may have enabled the “real” players, once they returned, to ascend to the Super Bowl that year.

2017

Sep

TOP OF THE LAKE: CHINA GIRL By David Bianculli

MINISERIES CONCLUSION: Nicole Kidman, Gwendoline Christie and star Elisabeth Moss all play complicated, flinty, proudly independent characters in this Top of the Lake sequel – and in tonight’s conclusion, all three get scenes in which they display why they were so eager to play these particular parts.

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