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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2019
May
19
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD By David Bianculli
 
 
This 1962 movie version of Harper Lee’s story is a magnificent movie, anchored by a fabulous performance by Gregory Peck as small-town lawyer Atticus Finch. TCM’s showing of it in 2019 is especially timely, since Aaron Sorkin’s new stage version of Lee’s story is still playing on Broadway. And, for the record, is one of the best stage dramas I’ve ever seen.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
May
19
KILLING EVE By David Bianculli
 
 
In tonight’s new episode of Killing Eve, Villanelle (Jodie Comer) continues her undercover work as Billie – helping Eve (Sandra Oh) to investigate another crime, and catch another killer. But Villanelle, as a field agent, is a dangerous weapon: less of a guided missile than a loose cannon.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
May
19
GAME OF THRONES By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES FINALE: You may have heard. This HBO series ends tonight. And when it’s all over, my guess is that the giant throne will be occupied by the show’s most diminutive character. But this program's plots have Throne me before...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
May
19
BARRY By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON FINALE: Last week’s episode ended with an intense cliffhanger: Fuches (Stephen Root), angered by Barry’s treatment of him, had taken Gene (Henry Winkler) out to his cabin in the woods, where Fuches led Gene to the hidden site of the car of Detective Moss – Gene’s missing girlfriend, who was missing because Barry had killed her in last year’s finale. And after Fuches ordered Gene to open the trunk of Moss’ car, he pointed a gun at Gene’s head. This
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
May
18
‘GAME OF THRONES’ ENDS ON A WING AND A PRAYER By Alex Strachan
 
 
If there’s one thing we’ve learned about popular TV, it’s that great expectations don’t always lead to grand results...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
May
18
SMALLFOOT By David Bianculli
 
 
Some very recognizable and attractive people are heard but not seen in this clever 2018 animated comedy, which is about a hidden community of yeti “discovering” a longmored human – in their parlance, a “smallfoot.” Channing Tatum provides the voice of Migo, Zendaya plays Meechee, Common is the Stonekeeper, and LeBron James is Gwangi. Quite a crew, especially notable given that they’re all being hired, in this case, primarily for their vocal skills. So are Dann
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
May
18
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON FINALE: Paul Rudd has hosted the season finale of SNL three times – and tonight’s show will make his fourth. Why is he tapped so often for this particular slot? For one thing, he’s usually featured in a major summer movie – as he is, this year, playing Ant-Man in Avengers: Endgame. But it’s also because Rudd can be counted on to hold his own in any sketch, and even carry it – which, at the end of a long season, when the regular Saturday Night Live reper
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
May
17
'BATWOMAN' JOINS 'SUPERGIRL' IN THE CW'S FEMALE-POWERED NEW LINEUP By Ed Bark
 
 
The CW is still perceived as a tyke among the Big Four broadcasting networks. But it may have fall’s showiest newcomer in Batwoman, in which the crime-fighting lead character is gay and “still holding a flame for her ex-girlfriend”...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
May
17
THE FILM VERSION OF 'CATCH-22' LOOMS LARGE OVER CLOONEY'S WONDERFUL EFFORT ON HULU By David Hinckley
 
 
The new TV miniseries version of Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 – call it the extended remix – may lead casual viewers and even devoted fans to consider the possibility that more is less...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
May
17
FLEABAG By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: Between Season 1 of this series, which premiered in 2016, and Season 2, which Amazon presents in a six-pack of superb TV today, a lot has happened. For one thing, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the writer and star of both this television series and the play on which it is based, has become an internationally acclaimed success, thanks to her more recent TV creation, BBC America’s brilliant Killing Eve. This one-two punch of flawless, adventurous TV writing may well be the most audac
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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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