This fourth episode is the last one Showtime gave to critics in advance – and it had me at the edge of my seat. Watch, and see where you end up sitting…

2020

Mar

DISPATCHES FROM ELSEWHERE By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This new limited series stars Jason Segel as Peter, a morose but attentive man drawn into what may be either an intricate real-life role-playing game or an alternate reality of sorts. He ends up being teamed with a trio of similarly adrift folks, played by Sally Field, Andre Benjamin and Eve Lindley – all of whom are moved around Philadelphia and elsewhere by a mysterious figure from an even more mysterious corporation. He’s played by Richard E. Grant – and his

2020

Mar

CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM By David Bianculli

This may be the best season of Curb since the season about Larry starring in The Producers – and this time, the season-long running story line is the preparation for the opening of Larry David’s “spite store,” the café known as “Latte Larry.” It’s a strange brew, with lots of amusing notes.

2020

Mar

LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER By David Bianculli

This week’s news includes an escalation in the reach of, and reactions to, the coronavirus, and the buildup to yesterday’s South Carolina primary, from which Joe Biden emerged as the dominant victor. But that was Saturday. How will this Sunday series be able to cover all that, and more, so quickly? The only way to know is to watch.

2020

Feb

DUSTIN HOFFMAN DOUBLE FEATURE By David Bianculli

Here comes another TCM double feature featuring the same actor, and this one really shows the subject’s range. From 1967, it’s The Graduate, in which Dustin Hoffman, as Benjamin, drives a spiffy sports car through a particularly bumpy stretch of his life, just after college graduation. He has an affair with the wife of a friend of his father, then becomes attracted to their daughter. What to watch for, in this relentlessly clever film directed by Mike Nichols, with music by

2020

Feb

ANNA By David Bianculli

Luc Besson, writer and director of 1990’s La Femme Nikita, wrote and directed this 2019 movie, an almost next-generation update with a similar plot. Sasha Luss plays the title role, a beautiful Russian woman who is recruited as a superspy and deadly assassin. Some of the story points are so similar – an imperious female trainer (this time Helen Mirren) running the would-be killer through their paces, and an assigned hit intentionally botched to test her mettle under fire &n

2020

Feb

SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET By David Bianculli

If you’ve watched this series from the start, and seen all its promos, you’ve probably seen one image dozens of times: an elephant on its hind legs, stretching with its trunk to reach and pull down some leaves from the top of a tall tree. Well, this week’s episode is devoted to Africa, and that elephant is bound to appear tonight.

2020

Feb

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli

This week’s new episode features former SNL writer John Mulaney returning, once again, as host – and if his previous appearances are any indication, he’ll arrive with a particularly funny monolog. And tonight’s musical guest is worth anticipating, too: It’s former Talking Heads front man David Byrne.

2020

Feb

1988: 'DAY BY DAY' DEBUTS ON NBC By Linda Donovan

The short-lived sitcom Day by Day premiered on NBC on this date in 1988...

2020

Feb

LINCOLN RHYME: HUNT FOR THE BONE COLLECTOR By David Bianculli

At the climax of last week’s episode, The Bone Collector’s wife phoned him and demanded he come home immediately. She had found his secret stash of Polaroids of his victims – but believed, much to her relief, his false claims of innocence and ignorance. Until, that is, she noticed that one of her female friends, who had recently visited, was in one of the photographs. Promos for tonight’s episode show her bound and gagged in the basement, suggesting the Bone Collecto

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