Episode 3 of this playful and perverse new series – TV’s most twisted take on a serial murderer since Dexter – starts with the latest target of hit woman Villanelle (Jodie Comer) indulging in some kinky fun during a business trip checking himself into a “medical facility” staffed by a dominatrix. Unfortunately for him, the establishment’s usual purveyor of pain and pleasure has been replaced for the day – with Villanelle, wearing a black wig and flashing

2018

Apr

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

Last week’s season premiere was almost breathtaking, because it was virtually breathless: John Heilemann, Mark McKinnon and new Circus correspondent Alex Wagner (replacing the disgraced Mark Halperin) covered three countries in the half-hour premiere: Russia (talking with both an official state media executive and an undercover worker at one of Russia’s fake-news rumor mills), England (getting reaction to the poisoning of two Russians on British soil), and the U.S., where President T

2018

Apr

WESTWORLD By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Season 2 of Westworld begins the same way Season 1 did, with Bernard (Jeffrey Wright) and Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) in a laboratory environment, quietly discussing dreams and asking some very big questions. Except this year, the unsettling dream is Bernard’s, and the relationship between these two, as well as their understanding of their inner drives and desires, has changed significantly. Westworld expands slowly but very surely in this year’s first handful of epis

2018

Apr

HOMELAND By David Bianculli

Last week’s episode included a president planning to fire some cabinet members abruptly and a Russian plot to weaken the U.S. government by spreading distrust and fake news. That’s one of the things I love about Homeland – it’s so soothing, at the end of another busy week, to just forget about the headlines and relax with a show that’s pure fantasy. Oh, well. At least, by the end of the episode, Carrie and Saul (Claire Danes, Mandy Patinkin) were sharing not only sc

2018

Apr

BARRY By David Bianculli

This comedy gets more comically complex every week, with increasing levels of power struggles, people adopting roles, and the two lives of Bill Hader’s Barry – hit man and struggling Los Angeles actor – finding more and more ways to intersect. Barry has showcased Hader beautifully, but the show is generous to his co-stars as well. Last week, a scene in which Barry’s acting teacher, played by Henry Winkler, meets Paula Newsome’s Detective Moss for dinner at an upscal

2018

Apr

LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER By David Bianculli

Last week on Last Week, John Oliver ended the show with a very welcome respite from political news. After noting that a Russell Crowe “divorce auction” held by the actor in Australia had resulted in such winning bids as $7,000 for the leather jockstrap worn by Crowe in the 2005 boxing film Cinderella Man, Oliver admitted that several items from that auction, including the jockstrap, had in fact been purchased by Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Then he noted that, because of its r

2018

Apr

ONE DEGREE OF (TV) SEPARATION: 2018 PULITZERS By Eric Gould

It’s not news on the level of rapper Kendrick Lamar, the surprising 2018 Pulitzer Prize recipient, but Jerry Saltz, New York art critic and former co-host of Bravo's Work of Art (2010-11) is also a 2018 winner...

2018

Apr

WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES By David Bianculli

Caesar and the Colonel sounds like a TV buddy show from the Seventies – but it’s actually the conflicted pair at the heart of this latest entry, from 2017, in the rebooted Planet of the Apes series. Caesar is the now-grown ape who’s set on revenge for what the humans have done to him and the rest of monkeykind – and the Colonel is the military guy who’s familiar with being both for and against him. Woody Harrelson returns as the Colonel, and Andy Serkis, the motion-

2018

Apr

THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR By David Bianculli

Director Norman Jewison mounted this 1968 heist drama with style to spare, playing with the split-screen images, rapid editing and propulsive rock music so popular at that point in the Sixties. Steve McQueen, as a bank executive who plans a clever way to rob his own bank, is stylish, too, and is cool personified – but nothing in this film is as stylish as Faye Dunaway, playing the insurance investigator who’s called in after the robbery.

2018

Apr

WESTWORLD By David Bianculli

Season 2 of HBO’s inventive, exciting version of Westworld begins tomorrow night. But tonight, even if you saw and remember every bit of Season 1 from 2016, you might want to take advantage of tonight’s rebroadcast of the Season 1 finale episode. Consider it a refresher course – and a reminder of not only who’s who on this series about artificial humans and their creators, but, even more important, who’s what…

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