SERIES FINALE: This documentary series already has looked at five dictators, giving their biographies and atrocities one hour each: Kim Il Sung, Saddam Hussein, Benito Mussolini, Manuel Noriega, and Francisco Franco. Tonight, the nonfiction series concludes with a look at Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. But The Dictator’s Playbook cries out for a season two, if only to give due credit – actually, due blame – to Adolf Hitler and Pol Pot, just to drop a few names. Check local listings

2019

Feb

'BOOMERANG' IS WORTH CATCHING By David Hinckley

Boomerang has come back. Twenty-seven years after the Eddie Murphy/Halle Berry rom-com Boomerang cleaned up in theaters, it has returned, more or less, as a TV show...

2019

Feb

THANKS TO 'MIRACLE WORKERS,' ANOTHER HEAVENLY SITCOM HAS ARRIVED By David Hinckley

The afterlife, it turns out, is a place where they make cool sitcoms. Who knew?...

2019

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THIS IS US By David Bianculli

Last week, This Is Us was pre-empted by the State of the Union Address. This week, the show’s narrative picks up with part two of “Songbird Road,” which allows, among other things, another look back at Milo Ventimiglia as Jack and Mandy Moore as Rebecca.

2019

Feb

THE GIFTED By David Bianculli

We’re getting near the end of this second season, and the various factions of powerful mutants are taking sides, taking names – and taking aim – against each other.

2019

Feb

THE MANY LIVES OF NICK BUONICONTI By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: Nick Buoniconti was the aggressive, instinctive linebacker for the Miami Dolphins during their Don Shula-led championship years, including the team’s still-unmatched undefeated season (in which the Dolphins won every regular season and postseason game, including the Super Bowl – take that, New England Patriots!). This documentary tells Buoniconti’s story – a story that only begins there, and establishes a narrative that includes as much tragedy as tr

2019

Feb

MIRACLE WORKERS By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This seven-part comedy series is based on a book by Simon Rich, creator of the unforgivably underrated FXX series Man Seeking Woman. And yes, this new TBS series, about minions in heaven trying to save the planet Earth in general and one not-yet-a-couple in particular, has sparks of the same surrealistic imagination – but not until many episodes in, when God, played by Steve Buscemi, returns “home.” At home, it turns out, he has disapproving parents and a coupl

2019

Feb

‘PBS NATURE’ GOES BACK IN TIME TO THE AGE OF THE VIKINGS By Alex Strachan

In some ways, Ewan McGregor makes an ideal narrator for the PBS Nature program Wild Way of the Vikings...

2019

Feb

THE PASSAGE By David Bianculli

In tonight’s new Episode 5, the little girl who’s being protected by the show’s hero takes matters into her own hands, and protects him – which surprises and amazes them both. What other untapped powers does she have? And where, in this story about genetically engineered mutant vampires, are they coming from?

2019

Feb

I AM THE NIGHT By David Bianculli

Tonight’s episode is called “Dark Flower,” and it finds a way, at last, to team on the same mission the down-on-his-luck reporter (Chris Pine) and the young girl (India Eisley) who’s key to the story’s central mystery. In a way, by coincidence, this mystery miniseries has the same central relationship as that of The Passage. And they’re both very interesting dramas.

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