In tonight’s episode, Adam Goldberg (Sean Giambrone) sees the Mel Brooks Star Wars spoof, Spaceballs, and is so instantly and overwhelmingly in love with it that he starts a fan club at school. And somewhere in this episode, Rick Moranis, who played the hilariously attired Dark Helmet in Spaceballs, makes a special voice-only appearance – his first acting job in more than a decade.

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May

NOVA WONDERS By David Bianculli

The question asked tonight on NOVA Wonders is “Are We Alone?” Well, I can’t speak for the rest of the universe, but personally, yeah. Though I’m open to entertaining sincere inquiries… Check local listings.

2018

May

THE AMERICANS By David Bianculli

Last week’s episode contained the most chilling TV husband-and-wife argument since the final season of The Sopranos, when Tony threw Carmela against a wall. There was no violence this time – though there was later, when Philip practice sparred with daughter Paige to demonstrate she wasn’t as adept a close-combat fighter as she thought she was – but the emotions, on both sides, were seething. And tonight, though Elizabeth has made it clear she has little use for Philip rig

2018

May

FULL FRONTAL WITH SAMANTHA BEE By David Bianculli

Last week, in a segment called “Greatest Feminists in Feminism Herstory,” Samantha Bee honed in on Sarah Huckabee Sanders. The segment was headlined “Part 1,” suggesting there was more to come. That’s good news – but there’s been so much other news this week already, I don’t expect an immediate reprise.

2018

May

THE VOICE By David Bianculli

There was a lot of talent of display in last night’s two-hour Top 10 edition of The Voice – including a little bit country, a little bit rock and roll, and even a singing turn by fiery new judge Kelly Clarkson. (I enjoy all the judges, but Alicia Keys always emerges as the one whose heart and empathy hits me as the most genuine. Quietly, gorgeously regal.) In tonight’s one-hour follow-up, two contestants are scheduled to be eliminated, getting us, on schedule, to the Top 8. And

2018

May

TARZAN, THE APE MAN By David Bianculli

TCM is devoting Tuesdays and Thursdays to movie series – and is starting with the Tarzan series. Six Tarzan movies are shown tonight, including the fan favorite Tarzan and His Mate from 1934 (at 10 p.m. ET). But the first entry, Tarzan, the Ape Man from 1932, is my favorite. Not only was it made only a handful of years after sound came to the movies, but it was filmed pre-Code – which means that when Johnny Weissmuller’s Ape Man is joined in the jungle by Maureen O’Sulliv

2018

May

FRONTLINE: "MYANMAR'S KILLING FIELDS" By David Bianculli

Evan Williams, who also directed Hunting Boko Haram, compiles years of surreptitiously recorded and saved footage, and adds his own, to explain and explore the Myanmar military’s brutal and prolonged campaign to wipe out the Rohingya Muslims from that country. Check local listings.

2018

May

LEGION By David Bianculli

The last two episodes of Legion, giving us extended head trips into the complex minds of Syd and Lenny, respectively, have been so inventive and exciting and unpredictable, I could hardly watch them without leaning fully forward. And tonight, in an episode I haven’t previewed, we accompany David (Dan Stevens) as he’s taken on a tour, and takes us on one, through a series of alternate realities – including one in which he’s long-haired, bearded and homeless (pictured). Whi

2018

May

GENIUS: "PICASSO" By David Bianculli

In tonight’s episode, the elder Picasso (Antonio Banderas) sets out to introduce his lover Francoise to his other current lover, Dora. “I have no rules,” he announces. And then he finds out if they do…

2018

May

KEEPING FAITH By David Bianculli

MINISERIES PREMIERE: When this eight-part drama series premiered in the U.K., a reviewer for The Guardian called it “Big Little Lies relocated to rural Wales.” Overseas, two versions of the drama were filmed twice simultaneously: one with the cast speaking Welsh, the other with them speaking English. (The same idyllic and charming Welsh setting, however, figures in both.) Eve Myles, familiar from both Broadchurch and Torchwood, plays Faith Howells, a wife and mother whose husband and

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