A generation or two ago, it was superstation TBS, then premium cable provider HBO, bending the rules about what and how viewers could watch TV. Today (Tuesday, Mar. 10), another streaming video player joins the fray. It’s PlayStation...

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POWERS By David Bianculli

Here’s the latest content provider to get into the original series game – and this time, it’s a company very familiar with games. It’s PlayStation, inaugurating its original-production drama slate with a series based on a comic book named Powers. It imagines a world in which many of its citizens have some sort of superpower – and one cop, played by Sharlto Copley, whose powers, including the power of flight, have been taken from him, forcing him to try and enforce t

2015

Mar

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER By David Bianculli

After playing The Human Torch in the Fantastic 4 movies, Chris Evans took center stage in another Marvel movie franchise based on a comic book – as Steve Rogers, a.k.a. Captain America, in this 2011 origin film. He’s since played the same character in 2012’s The Avengers and 2014’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and is scheduled to appear in both installments of both franchises. Evans’ co-star in this first Captain America movie is Hayley Atwell, portraying WW

2015

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THE LOST BOYS By David Bianculli

The two Coreys – Haim and Feldman – are the stars of this 1987 movie, which introduced vampires to a new young generation. But watch for Keifer Sutherland as one of the charismatic, cocky creatures of the night, and you’ll see why this movie had such potent teen appeal. Jami Gertz co-stars.

2015

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MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. By David Bianculli

And the cross-promotion and cross-pollination keep on coming: Tonight’s episode features guest star Jaimie Alexander, reprising her Marvel movie role as Sif, the Asgardian warrior introduced in 2011’s Thor. She also appeared as Sif in the 2013 movie Thor: The Dark World, and on TV in one of last year’s episodes of this series. And here she is again, in a plot that sets the stage for some of the events in the next Marvel movie to come down the pike, Avengers: Age of Ultron.

2015

Mar

JUSTIFIED By David Bianculli

Just the description of this week’s show makes me nervous. Last week’s episode had Ava (Joelle Carter) and Boyd (Walton Goggins) isolated at a country cabin together, and I feared they wouldn’t both come out alive. This week, they cross paths and spend time with one of this season’s delightfully written and performed villains, Ty Walker, played superbly by Garret Dillahunt. And this week, I’m betting they won’t all come out alive – and since this is the

2015

Mar

JANE THE VIRGIN By David Bianculli

After a winter vacation of sorts, Jane the Virgin returns, with an episode so jam-packed that it includes a big fight, a bigger revelation, and, topping them all, an unexpected proposal. Welcome back, Jane.

2015

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BATES MOTEL By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This reimagined, updated “prequel” to Psycho returns for Season 3 with enough dysfunctional family issues to fuel an entire prime-time soap series. Norman (Freddie Highmore), having come close to suicide at the end of last season, now has found some comfort in the arms, and bed, of his mother, Norma (Vera Farmiga). Norman’s brother, meanwhile, is living secretly with his long-estranged father – and Norman is noticeably attracted to the temporary occupant

2015

Mar

THE RETURNED By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Carlton Cuse, one of the executive producers of Lost, and Raelle Tucker from True Blood are behind this American adaptation of the 2012 French series Les Revenants, which was imported subsequently by Sundance Channel. This series follows the same blueprint, up to a point – according to Cuse, it begins to veer into its own territory around episode six. And though the original is smarter, more subtle, and flat-out better, this one, to the unitiated, is competent enough to ho

2015

Mar

BETTER CALL SAUL By David Bianculli

Tonight’s episode has Mike (Jonathan Banks) getting in trouble with the law, and needing a lawyer to defend him. Who’s he gonna call? Better call Jimmy…

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