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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2018
Apr
13
THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW By David Bianculli
 
 
Tonight’s guests include Emily Blunt and John Krasinski, a real-life couple currently co-starring in A Quiet Place. Adjust your volume as necessary.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
13
RELLIK By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: This series, imported from BBC One, is a murder mystery that tells its story in reverse chronological order – hence the title. But once you know that going in, if the writing isn’t extremely clever, the whole exercise comes off as gnirob. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower. 
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
13
REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli
 
 
After a week such as this, it doesn’t matter which guests Bill Maher books on his live current events comedy talk show. There’ll be plenty to discuss…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
13
WYATT CENAC'S PROBLEM AREAS By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: I haven’t seen this new series from this Comedy Central veteran, but the promos made me laugh out loud, which is a very, very good sign…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
12
THE BIG BANG THEORY By David Bianculli
 
 
In TV sitcoms and even in TV dramas, Peter MacNicol manages to paint more vibrant and oversized characters, with more eccentricity and flat-out fun, than just about anyone, from John Cage on Ally McBeal to Jeff Kane on Veep. Tonight, he guest stars as the mysterious scientist and hermit Doctor Wolcott, who extends an invitation for the boys to come visit his remote cabin. And they go, perhaps a bit too eagerly…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
12
GOTHAM By David Bianculli
 
 
The new episode shown tonight is called “That’s Entertainment.” And it’s likely to live up to that billing, as this year’s story arc has gotten deeper and darker, nudging many of its nascent villains into full-fledged bad guys. And gals, because Barbara, completing her arc from victim to victimizer, is now in charge of her own devoted squad of killers – while Bruce Wayne and Jim Gordon team up to try and stop them.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
12
YOUNG SHELDON By David Bianculli
 
 
In tonight’s episode, Sheldon gets exposed to his first mature comic book – and decides it’s time he acted much more mature at all times, including at the family dinner table.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
12
ATLANTA By David Bianculli
 
 
Tonight’s new episode is called “Champagne Papi,” and has the girls going out for a night of heavy-duty partying – a night that gets even more out of control than they wanted.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
11
THE GOLDBERGS By David Bianculli
 
 
What a feeling: Tonight, The Goldbergs hits the dance floor, and the rehearsal hall, as Goldberg matriarch Beverly (the very funny Wendi McLendon-Covey) enrolls in dance class after being inspired by the then-new movie Flashdance. Hey, it could be worse. She could have taken up welding…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
11
THE AMERICANS By David Bianculli
 
 
Tonight’s episode is called “Urban Transit Planning,” which refers to the new job by a veteran Soviet character on this series, who’s returning to the U.S. to take a graduate school class in that sociological discipline. That’s his cover story, anyway. What he’s really in the States to do is persuade a Soviet spy in this country to spy on one of his own – which ends up adding even more tension to the already fraught relationship of sleeper agents Philip
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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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