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Contributors Archive
 
 
2018
May
30
THE AMERICANS By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES FINALE: This is it. The final episode of The Americans, which has saved, until the very last, the answers to so many key questions. Will Soviet spy moles Philip and Elizabeth survive? Will their marriage? Will FBI agent Stan act upon his suspicions and confront Philip and Elizabeth? And will their daughter, Paige, ultimately align herself with one parent or the other, and either revoke or embrace her budding spy career? (Regarding that last question, I vote for the latter… and hope
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
30
FULL FRONTAL WITH SAMANTHA BEE By David Bianculli
 
 
Tonight, expect outspoken comedienne Samantha Bee to deliver her opinion on outspoken comedienne Roseanne Barr – one of whom, at this writing, still has a TV show.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
30
'THE AMERICANS' FINALE MAY SURPRISE, MAY DISAPPOINT By David Hinckley
 
 

The Americans doesn’t end the way most fans have probably been thinking it would end... No spoilers here, except to say many viewers may be surprised by who’s left standing at the end. And where...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
30
NBC'S REVERIE CAN'T MUSTER MUCH OF A GRIP By Ed Bark
 
 
Sci-fi traveling used to be -- and sometimes still is -- a lot more basic and easily grasped...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
29
AN UNVARNISHED LOOK AT AMERICANS 'HUNTING ISIS' By David Hinckley
 
 
When the History Channel gets serious, it can still offer solid stories like its new Hunting ISIS...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
29
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This sitcom, created and occasionally resurrected by Mitchell Hurwitz, has a long and increasingly complicated history. First was its original incarnation on Fox from 2003-2006, three seasons of outrageous originality, with Jason Bateman as the comparatively normal member of the extremely dysfunctional and privileged Bluth family. A fourth season, comprised of individual episodes starring separate characters, appeared on Netflix in 2013, back when a TV series created for a strea
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
29
LEGION By David Bianculli
 
 
There are only a few episodes left this season – and while David remains set on revenge, and Syd and those around him are worried that his anger and power might lead to widespread disaster, tonight’s episode unleashes another unpredictable, and very pent-up, force: the long-imprisoned Lenny, played by Aubrey Plaza (pictured).
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
29
GENIUS: "PICASSO" By David Bianculli
 
 
In tonight’s Episode 7, the elder Picasso, played by Antonio Banderas, has to reposition himself after WWII – both artistically and politically.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
29
ROSEANNE BARR'S RACIST TWEET TRIGGERS ABC'S ABRUPT CANCELLATION OF HER HIT REBOOT By Ed Bark
 
 
In a jarring development, ABC has canceled Roseanne after the star of the show, Roseanne Barr, authored a since deleted tweet disparaging Valerie Jarrett, a former advisor to President Barack Obama...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
29
ABC PLAYED WITH FIRE UNTIL ROSEANNE BARR FINALLY BURNED HER LAST BRIDGE By Ed Bark
 
 
Hindsight is always 20/20, which happens to be the name of another ABC show... perhaps the network should have abided by that vintage Rolling Stones song: “Don’t play with me, ‘cause you’re playin’ with fire"...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
New From TVWW

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