In Dallas, TX, there’s an investigative firm of private eyes fronted by three men who, between them, have 60 years of experience – not as detectives, but as former Texas prison inmates, wrongly imprisoned for decades for crimes they did not commit. Their Texas detective agency was established to give them a just cause, a specialty operation in which they investigate the convictions of other unfairly incarcerated prisoners. Check local listings.

2018

Apr

JAMES CAMERON'S STORY OF SCIENCE FICTION By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY MINISERIES PREMIERE: AMC launched its new series of arts documentaries by having Robert Kirkman, of The Walking Dead graphic novel fame, give a very personal evaluation of the development of comic books. Tonight, Terminator and Avatar director James Cameron offers a multi-week take on science fiction, looking not at a chronological overview, but deconstructing the genre by themes. Watch tonight’s opening installment, and decide for yourself whether it themes like a good idea&he

2018

Apr

NETWORK By David Bianculli

Paddy Chayefsky’s 1976 satire about network television, directed by Sidney Lumet, was amazing then, and it’s amazing now, having predicted everything from the rise of a fourth network and the shift of news operations into profit centers to the popularity of reality TV and the influence on American media by foreign interests. Peter Finch is brilliant as maverick television pontificator Howard Beale – and Faye Dunaway, as the ambitious TV executive who presides over his rise and

2018

Apr

HEY, HEY, HEY By Linda Donovan

With the recent conviction of Bill Cosby, many folks have discovered a few of his own words have come back to haunt him...

2018

Apr

THE SIMPSONS By David Bianculli

This is being touted as a landmark episode of The Simpsons, and with very good reason. It’s episode number 636 since this animated Fox series began as a full-length prime-time show in 1989, expanding from interstitial slots on The Tracey Ullman Show to launch with a Christmas special, “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire.” And that means The Simpsons, with tonight’s episode, finally passes CBS’s landmark Western Gunsmoke as the scripted TV series with the most episode

2018

Apr

AMERICAN IDOL By David Bianculli

Tonight’s Top 10 competition is something that never could have happened when this variety series was broadcast by Fox. That’s because only the Disney-owned ABC network, the new presenters of Idol, could build an entire show, as it does tonight, around “The Music of Disney.” Catie Turner will sing “Once Upon a Dream” from Sleeping Beauty, for example, and Jurnee will sing “How Far I’ll Go” from Moana. In terms of animated Disney music history

2018

Apr

KILLING EVE By David Bianculli

Last week’s Episode 3 climaxed with Eve (Sandra Oh) and her spy mentor Bill following hit woman Villanelle (Jodie Comer) into a crowded nightclub – where Villanelle, largely to upset Eve, gave new meaning to the phrase “Kill Bill.” Tonight, Eve’s pursuit of Villanelle gets even more personal as a result – and, by episode’s end, for Eve and for others, even more dangerous.

2018

Apr

THE CIRCUS: INSIDE THE WILDEST POLITICAL SHOW ON EARTH By David Bianculli

The Circus, simply by following the news this season, has gotten increasingly and aggressively global in its reporting – visiting Russia and England last week, and France tonight. I see England, I see France, I see Putin’s underhanded ways of attacking American democracy…

2018

Apr

WESTWORLD By David Bianculli

Tonight’s Episode 2 of Season 2 is called “Reunion,” and delivers on its promise by putting together, in the same scene, characters who have exchanged dialogue only once before, early in Season 1: Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) and Maeve (Thandie Newton). When last they met, Maeve was a brothel operator, and Dolores a rancher’s sweet-hearted daughter. This season, they’re both rebellious women on specific missions: Maeve is searching for her daughter, and Dolores is out

2018

Apr

HOMELAND By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: Last week, the covert mission by Saul and Carrie (Mandy Patinkin, Claire Danes) was interrupted forcibly – and so was the presidency of the current occupant of the White House, leaving Saul and Carrie on foreign soil without a country. Or, at least, without authorization for their covert abduction attempt. And tonight, in the Season 7 finale, all the chickens come home to roost. And maybe Saul and Carrie, too.

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