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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2018
Jan
11
YOUNG SHELDON By David Bianculli
 
 
Tonight, in this new episode, young Sheldon (Iain Armitage) has his first taste of a very formative experience: playing the game Dungeons & Dragons.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
11
TRUTH AND LIES: THE TONYA HARDING STORY By David Bianculli
 
 
With I, Tonya now in theaters, starring Margot Robbie as infamous Olympic ice skater Tonya Harding, ABC News presents this special, in which Amy Robach profiles and interviews the athlete who became, unwittingly and unflatteringly, one of the major stars of the 1994 Winter Olympics. That’s because some of the men she knew conspired to target one of Harding’s on-ice rivals, Nancy Kerrigan, and clubbed her in the knee at a practice session before the Olympics that year. We saw her stor
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
11
GET OUT By David Bianculli
 
 
Comedian Jordan Peele stunned audiences by making an astounding successful, creepy, and only occasionally and intentionally funny horror movie with this 2017 thriller, Get Out. In this wonderfully spun story, written and directed by Peele, Daniel Kaluuya stars as Chris, who is being taken by his girlfriend, Rose (played by Allison Williams from Girls), on a weekend vacation to meet her parents for the first time. He’s black, she’s white – and what happens once they arrives is,
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
10
THE X-FILES By David Bianculli
 
 
The second episode of this new season (Season 11) of The X-Files features one of the characters from the show’s short-lived spinoff series, The Lone Gunmen. The character is Richard “Ringo” Langly, the actor is Dean Haglund, and the episode is called “This.” And what is “This” about? Basically, it’s about an alternate, artificially created universe where a person’s consciousness can be kept alive, indefinitely. It’s the same sci-fi plot
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
10
GANDHI By David Bianculli
 
 
This 1982 biographical epic stars Ben Kingsley as Mahatma Gandhi, with Candice Bergen as Margaret Bourke-White and such eminent co-stars as Edward Fox and John Gielgud. The action begins about a century before the movie was released, when a young Gandhi had his own personal Rosa Parks-type moment on a South African train. After he was ejected from a first-class compartment for being Indian, Gandhi began a series of nonviolent protests – a protest that spread from unfair practices on South
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
10
NOVA: "BLACK HOLE APOCALYPSE" By David Bianculli
 
 
Nova means new, but in TV terms, Nova is an old, old dog – but one that doesn’t need any new tricks. It began on PBS in 1974, and has logged 45 seasons of usually fascinating reports on scientific topics. Today, it launches a new year by taking a two-hour tour of black holes – a phenomenon that is not only frightening, and astounding, but – in photographs and artist renderings, absolutely gorgeous. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
10
FULL FRONTAL WITH SAMANTHA BEE By David Bianculli
 
 
So if you are just returning from vacation, and re-entering the real world and its attendant headlines, scandals, and tweets, what have you missed? Tonight, in this new episode, Sister Sam Explains It All for You…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
10
MILLENNIAL AGE CRISES IN FREEFORM'S 'ALONE TOGETHER' By Ed Bark
 
 
The fine line between being amusingly under-achieving and annoyingly pathetic is criss-crossed repeatedly in Freeform’s Alone Together...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
10
FREEFORM'S 'ALONE TOGETHER' -- A GLIMPSE AT PLATONIC FRIENDS FINDING THEIR WAY THROUGH LIFE – IN L.A. By David Hinckley
 
 
Freeform’s new comedy Alone Together is the latest show to reframe the lives of misfit teens and young adults who have traditionally been either exploited as passing comic relief or dismissed as losers...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Jan
10
TCA'S WINTER PRESS TOUR – DAY 5: ABC By Roger Catlin
 
 
ABC stepped on the gas during its packed day at the TV Critics Association winter press tour...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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