MIDSEASON RETURN: The cliffhanger finale for the first half of the season had Randall’s election campaign in jeopardy, and a major shakeup from the past delivered in the Vietnam story line, with Jack’s brother Nicky (Michael Angarano) revealed to have survived the war. Tonight, those story lines, and others, continue.

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Jan

THE GIFTED By David Bianculli

Lauren continues to get more powerful – which prompts the evil Frost sisters to dispatch a hit team of other mutants to neutralize her. We’re getting near the end of the season, so the confrontations are getting more serious, and consequential, all the time…

2019

Jan

ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This is not a recommendation. The original Roswell series, which premiered in 1999 on the WB, imagined that the population of Roswell, N.M., was dotted with residents whose ancestors had experienced some very close encounters with aliens who crashed there in 1947. The series pilot of that show, like that of this revisiting remake, was built around a hybrid alien-human who used his powers to save the life of a human high-school classmate, and a town celebration of the original Ro

2019

Jan

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: "THE SWAMP" By David Bianculli

This new documentary about Florida’s Everglades hits all sorts of chords with me. I grew up in South Florida – specifically, in Fort Lauderdale in Broward County – yet never knew, until watching The Swamp, that the county in which I lived was named after a Florida governor, Napoleon Bonaparte Broward, who had grand plans to populate South Florida and, as they say, drain the swamp. An earlier man with similar plans was Hamilton Disston, who purchased 4 million acres of South Flo

2019

Jan

DRUNK HISTORY By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Here’s a star-studded, loopy take on the creation of the Frankenstein story: Evan Rachel Wood plays author Mary Shelley, Seth Rogen plays her creation Victor Frankenstein, and Will Ferrell plays his creation, Frankenstein’s monster. Also appearing: Elijah Wood as Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley’s poet husband, and Jack McBrayer as Lord Byron.

2019

Jan

THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON By David Bianculli

When Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda told Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon last year about his plans to stage a limited-run version of his hit musical, and returning to the title role, to benefit the people and arts of Puerto Rico, Fallon pledged his support. Tonight, on Tonight, it arrives in a big way. To benefit the island still recovering from 2017’s Hurricane Maria, The Tonight Show televises this special episode direct from Puerto Rico. Fallon joins Miranda in a one-time only versi

2019

Jan

THE CW'S 'ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO' CRASH LANDS ALONG WITH ITS EXTRATERRESTRIALS By Ed Bark

The overriding – or more to the point, the only – reason to visit Roswell, New Mexico is its UFO phooey. Once is more than enough...

2019

Jan

'THE PASSAGE' GIVES FOX A SCI-FI CONTENDER WITH HEART TO SPARE By Ed Bark

A generation removed from Saved By the Bell, former teen heartthrob Mark-Paul Gosselaar, now 44, is acting with kids again. Actually, it’s just one kid. But what a kid...

2019

Jan

THE PASSAGE By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Almost every decade, television finds a way to reinvent and reinvigorate the vampire genre. Movies did, too, and started the ball rolling initially with 1922’s Nosferatu and 1931’s Dracula. That latter film starred Bela Lugosi as the sinister Count, an image that more or less held true until Christopher Lee introduced a more sensual vampire in 1958’s British version of Dracula. But think of what TV has done over the years, led by the 1966 daytime ABC soap opera

2019

Jan

INDEPENDENT LENS: "RODENTS OF UNUSUAL SIZE" By David Bianculli

In the movie The Princess Bride (one of my favorites, by the way), traversing a particularly ominous swamp meant risking contact with the R.O.U.S. – a calm acronym for the very frightening idea of giant rats, otherwise known as Rodents of Unusual Size. Well, now a species of R.O.U.S. has made its way from the jungles and rivers of South America to the backwaters and bayous of Louisiana. They’re giant rats, not beavers, and they’re 20 pounds each, multiplying like crazy, gobblin

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