SEASON FINALE: Last week’s episode of The Passage ended with a cliffhanger, showing the program’s heroes huddled on one side of a reinforced steel door, with the angry vampire population poised to attack on the other side. Tonight, the extended two-hour Season 1 finale puts the protagonists in even more mortal danger – but that’s nothing compared to the cliffhanger served up by Fox itself as the season concludes. To this point, the network has yet to renew The Passage for

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JOHN & YOKO: ABOVE US ONLY SKY By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: Michael Epstein, who directed 2010’s LennoNYC for PBS’s American Masters, finds more inspiration in yet another chapter from the former Beatle’s years as a resident artist in New York. This documentary takes a long, detailed look into the content and recording of John Lennon’s Imagine album in 1971, and also into his personal and creative life with Yoko Ono during the same period. For fans of this artist, this couple, this album, and the sentiment of

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'THE CASE AGAINST ADNAN SYED' ON HBO REVISITS THE 'SERIAL' PODCAST CRIME By David Hinckley

A new quasi-sequel to Serial will inevitably make less of a cultural splash than the original. But it provides equally valuable context to a case fraught with loose ends...

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'NOW APOCALYPSE' DEBUTS ON STARZ By David Hinckley

Millennials sure lead exciting lives on television...

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

Perhaps for the first time all year, it’s the Democrats, not the Republicans, who have managed to dominate much of the news cycle – and not in a good way. It’ll be interesting to see how The Circus covers this end of the spectrum, with charges of Anti-Semitism occupying the Democratic House of Representatives, thanks to controversial remarks by first-term congressperson Ilhan Omar.

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AMERICAN GODS By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: It’ll take most of this second season to decide whether American Gods will manage to keep its momentum intact despite a series of behind-the-scenes changes. Neil Gaiman, author of the inventive source novel, remains involved, so it’s not likely to go too much off the rails. But after Season 1, two of the show’s executive producers, Bryan Fuller and Michael Green, left the series – and since Fuller was one of the very visual creators behind both Pushing Da

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ARETHA: A GRAMMY CELEBRATION OF THE QUEEN OF SOUL By David Bianculli

SPECIAL PREMIERE: Jennifer Hudson (pictured) gets to give “Respect” to Aretha Franklin, as one of many artists singing songs from the Queen of Soul’s songbook, in this posthumous tribute recorded in January. Franklin earned her first Grammy Awards for “Respect” in 1968, for both Best Female R&B Performance and Best R&B Performance. She won again in the Female R&B category the following year for “Chain of Fools,” and continued to rack up Gramm

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THE WALKING DEAD By David Bianculli

Last week, Daryl led a rescue mission that infiltrated the camp of Samantha Morton’s sinister Alpha and escaped with not only her captive, Henry, but her own daughter, Lydia, who was about to be forced by Alpha to kill Henry. This week, Alpha is on the warpath – literally, by following the path back to where Daryl and the others have returned, and with war, and retribution, on her mind.

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THE CASE AGAINST ADNAN SYED By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY MINISERIES PREMIERE: The 1999 disappearance and murder of 18-year-old high school student Hae Min Yee, and the subsequent murder conviction of her former boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was a cold case made red hot by the nonfiction Serial podcast. Starting tonight, HBO takes an even newer look at the case, including what has happened since it was overturned in the wake of the Serial revelations. The Case Against Adnan Syed is directed by Amy Berg, who also directed the 2016 PBS American Mast

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SHAMELESS By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: This is the Season 9 finale of this impressively acted Showtime series (itself an Americanized version of a British series, which, like NBC’s U.S. version of The Office, far outlasted the original). It also happens to be the final episode co-starring Emmy Rossum as Fiona, eldest daughter of the scrappy Gallagher clan. Fiona has had a brutal season, hitting rock bottom and sinking even below that, but last week’s show ended with a chance encounter that gives her charact

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