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2018
May
1
 
 
The detractors and defenders of Michelle Wolf continue to pile up like a chain collision on a slippery freeway...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
1
 
 
Tonight’s the night one of the Top 11 gets eliminated – unless he or she pulls off a live performance so impressive and impassioned it inspires one of the judges to grant an instant reprieve. Otherwise, the winnowing continues, as we head to the inevitable Top 10. And beyond…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
1
 
 
Tonight’s episode title almost sounds like this show’s matriarchal manifesto, as well as an allusion to a classic Coen Brothers film: “No Country for Old Women.” And it’s appropriate, too, since tonight’s comedy is about Roseanne and her sister Jackie (Laurie Metcalf) arguing about what to do when their mother (Estelle Parsons) is ejected from her nursing home.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
1
 
 
This NPR and Frontline co-production looks at the federal government’s response to Hurricane Maria after it devastated Puerto Rico last September. The odd companies hired to restore power, the intermittent and largely ineffectual initial response, and more are all recounted and questioned, as the island still faces, so many months later, what Frontline calls the worst power blackout in U.S, history. For a full review, see Alex Strachan's TV That Matters. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
1
 
 
This series, already so impressive, this season has quantum leapt over itself, becoming a TV series that pulls you in, holds you tight, and never lets go. Two weeks ago, it was David’s descent into a surrealistic rabbit hole. Last week, it was a mesmerizing trip through, and through and through again, the maze that is Syd’s mind. And tonight, most of the hour is devoted to Aubrey Plaza as Lenny, who has identity problems and psychedelic visions of her own, as she seems to return from
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
1
 
 
There are big doings for both the old and young Picassos in tonight’s Chapter 3 of the Genius: Picasso series. The elder Picasso (Antonio Banderas) meets his later-in-life muse Francoise Gilot (Clemence Posey) – and the younger Picasso (Alex Rich), in an earlier timeline, embarks upon his Blue Period.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
30
 
 
It might be hard for the last one out to please turn off the lights if the lights aren’t on to begin with...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
30
 
 
The same way rap started as a bad-boy outlier and today has become the beat of mainstream popular music, science fiction seems to have taken over the movie industry...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
30
 
 
CYCLE PREMIERE: This is the 26th time around the block for this prime-time ABC skating competition. And this time, it’s an all-athletes edition, heavy on U.S. gold medalists from the most recent Winter Games. But it also has some less recent, still famous athletes hitting the dance floor – including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Johnny Damon, and one of the most infamous Olympic athletes of all time, Tonya Harding.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
30
 
 
The picture you see here is of this year’s Top 12, which since has been reduced in number to the Top 11. And after tonight’s performances and tomorrow night’s elimination round, this year’s remaining Voice contestants will represent the current Top 10… with much more whittling of the ranks to come.