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2018
Apr
3
 
 

In my entire career as a TV critic, I’ve been stunned by a drama series’ outrageous originality on only three occasions. First was Dennis Potter’s The Singing Detective. Next was David Lynch’s original – very original – Twin Peaks. And now, as it launches Season 2, comes Noah Hawley’s Legion on FX…

 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
3
 
 
Nearly four years removed from a near-fatal car wreck, Tracy Morgan is newly freed from 15 years of other trials and tribulations as the front-and-center star of a bold new TBS sitcom...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
2
 
 
ABC’s last announced new series of the season has a Lost vibe without the initial scope or thrill of discovery...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
2
 
 
Perhaps, as Carly Simon once sang, these are the good old days...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
2
 
 
The Knockout Rounds are here – and this year The Voice has added a new wrinkle, an instant pardon, where judges can rescue, and give a reprieve to, the losing contestant. Not sure how it works, exactly, but since most of the other additions and alterations to this series have been good ones, I’m willing to play along. And first-time judge Kelly Clarkson is learning all these rules very, very quickly…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
2
 
 
In Saturday’s Final Four games, Michigan handled Loyola with increased confidence down the stretch, with its star forward, Moritz Wagner from Germany, setting the pace with his size, accuracy, and full-court energy and enthusiasm. Normally, he and his team would be tough to bet against, given the way they’ve played in this postseason. But Villanova has played even better, and on Saturday crushed another top-seeded team, Kansas, with an almost supernatural torrent of three-point shots
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
2
 
 
This new AMC series, which began last week with a two-hour premiere, is interesting because its setting and mood are equally chilly and foreboding. It tells of two 19th-century British ships trying to find a sailable path through the frozen Arctic – and having an increasingly tough time of it. The sounds, at times, are quite spooky – and so is the sight of red on white, as blood stains ice.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
2
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: This is not a recommendation. This new series starts with a visual stunner: bodies, many dozens of them, found floating by the seashore – some dead, but others alive. And as the mysterious premise of this show quickly reveals, the waterborne refugees actually are from the distant future, emerging from the sea to escape some sort of genocide yet to come. Viewers have to buy into the idea instantly, then stick around for the long run – but after seeing the pilot, starr
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
2
 
 
Steven Bochco occasionally would give an inch, but only if you first gave him a mile. Perhaps that’s a stretch, but here’s a guy who gave a damn...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Apr
1
 
 
I would watch Benedict Cumberbatch and Kelly Macdonald as the lead team in a needlepoint circle if they were appearing there...