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Contributors Archive
 
 
2018
Feb
28
EXAMINING THE BACKGROUND LEADING TO SEPTEMBER 11TH THROUGH 'THE LOOMING TOWERS' By David Hinckley
 
 
Painful as it may be, it’s valuable in the wake of any tragedy to dissect what happened with the goal of preventing a recurrence...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
28
THE LOOMING TOWER By David Bianculli
 
 
MINISERIES PREMIERE: This is a new 10-part Hulu miniseries, based on the account by Lawrence Wright in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. Jeff Daniels and Peter Sarsgaard star as lead terrorist investigators for, respectively, the FBI and CIA, and this drama tells of their long and sometimes conflicting methods of tracing and apprehending the terrorist groups planning one attack after another against U.S. and other properties, eventually resulting i
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
28
MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD ANNIVERSARY TRIBUTE By David Bianculli
 
 
All this week, in celebration of last week’s golden anniversary of the national public TV premiere of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, PBS KIDS is pairing five memorable episodes of the wonderful Fred Rogers children’s series with similarly themed episodes of its animated spiritual successor, Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood. Today, Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood features the dual episode that includes the 15-minute segments “Visiting Grandpere” and “The Tiger
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
28
THE X-FILES By David Bianculli
 
 
Tonight’s new episode is titled “Rm9sbG93ZXJz.” I hope I typed that accurately – I’m thinking of making it my new wireless password.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
28
THE ASSASSINATION OF GIANNI VERSACE: AMERICAN CRIME STORY By David Bianculli
 
 
This is Episode 6 of this latest American Crime Story miniseries. The bodies keep piling up, and so, more and more, do scenes involving characters other than the killer.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
28
WACO By David Bianculli
 
 
MINISERIES FINALE: This is the concluding episode of the Paramount Network’s first big dramatic miniseries. And as any student of the history of this rebellious cult is aware, Waco doesn’t end well.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
28
USA NETWORK GOES HARD-CORE WITH 'UNSOLVED: THE MURDERS OF TUPAC AND THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G.' By Ed Bark
 
 
The USA network’s first full-fledged “true crime” miniseries is proof positive that its onetime sunny skies motif is no longer in the forecast...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
27
'UNSOLVED' SEEKS TO UNCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND THE DEATHS OF TUPAC AND BIGGIE By David Hinckley
 
 
Whether you think we ever need to wade back into the murders of rappers Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls, USA’s new Unsolved will take you there anyway and make you not want to leave...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
27
MISTER ROGERS' NEIGHBORHOOD ANNIVERSARY TRIBUTE By David Bianculli
 
 
All this week, in celebration of last week’s golden anniversary of the national public TV premiere of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, PBS KIDS is pairing five memorable episodes of the wonderful Fred Rogers children’s series with similarly themed episodes of its animated spiritual successor, Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood. Today, Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood features the dual episode that includes the 15-minute segments “The Tiger Family Grows” and “Danie
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
27
THE MIDDLE By David Bianculli
 
 
We’ve watched Sue (Eden Sher) grow up on The Middle over nine seasons, from geeky, gawky teen to a confident young woman, one with her own quirks, goals, and peculiar sense of humor. Tonight, Sue turns 21 – and her family salutes her, and the arrival of her legal drinking age, in an episode titled, appropriately, “Toasted.”
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
New From TVWW

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
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