Part 1 of 2. This new Frontline documentary, presented just days before the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States, tries to explain, and explore, why our country seems so starkly polarized as the new chief executive is about to take office. Fittingly, for such a divisive and divided subject, this Divided States of America installment of Frontline is presented in two parts. It concludes tomorrow night. Check local listings.

2017

Jan

INSIDE THE NFL By David Bianculli

Sunday’s playoff games were so exciting, with both Green Bay and Pittsburgh pulling off heroic last-minute wins, that watching those games through the Inside the NFL prism, with isolated microphones and special camera angles, ought to be a special treat indeed. During the season, this series covers lots of games. This weekend, there were only four, and two of them were classics.

2017

Jan

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

Aida, the Life Model Decoy played by Mallory Janson, appears to have been corrupted after reading the evil book with its inter-dimensional keys. And she’s not the only LMD on the loose, deceiving peers and pursuing an agenda at odds with Isaac Asimov’s three laws of robotics. “A robot may not injure a human being”? Been there, already done that…

2017

Jan

TABOO By David Bianculli

Tom Hardy continues his complicated role in this complicated series, which tells of corruption, ambition, and betrayal in early 19th-century London. Tonight’s episode deepens and clarifies not only the plot, but the characters.

2017

Jan

'ROCK'N'ROLL INVENTIONS' SHOWS US HOW THE BEAT GOES ON By David Hinckley

Smithsonian’s new Rock ‘N’ Roll Inventions series offers a technology tour that leaves you hungry to hear more of the music that inspired it...

2017

Jan

GOTHAM By David Bianculli

Returning for the new year, this series continues to move forward, giving power to some of its nascent villains and taking power from others. In the fall sequence of shows, we saw the rise of the woman who would become Poison Ivy and the increased derangement of the man who will become the Riddler. And starting with tonight’s episode, there are more tests, travails, and power grabs by the man some people already are calling the Penguin.

2017

Jan

TIMELESS By David Bianculli

Tonight’s episode takes place at the 1893 Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World’s Fair. The promo ads trumpet an appearance by Harry Houdini, but there are other things from this particular fairground well worth celebrating. The world’s first Ferris wheel, for example, and a public exhibition by Eadweard Muybridge of his zoopraxiscope, showing some of his motion studies of animals, and naked women, in motion. And Helen Keller, who was taken to the Exposition by

2017

Jan

BIG FAN By David Bianculli

This is a warning, not a recommendation. I threatened this last week, and tonight it arrives: The first installment of tonight’s Big Fan doubleheader, in which celebrities are pitted against fans to see who knows more about that celebrity, features Kim Kardashian West. One of the rotating slogans of TV Worth Watching used to be “No Kardashians,” and that unofficial edict still holds, at least in spirit. But for Kim Kardashian West herself, Big Fan, in which the entire show is b

2017

Jan

THE OBAMA YEARS WITH BRIAN WILLIAMS By David Bianculli

Tonight on MSNBC, we have an intimate interview special, spending time with a man who is striving to demonstrate how to maintain dignity while losing the power that once made him so prominent and influential. Oh, and President Barack Obama, in the last week of his presidency, is here, too – interviewed by former NBC News anchor, and now MSNBC mainstay, Brian Williams.

2017

Jan

HAIL TO THE TELEVISED CHIEF By Eric Gould

Here’s President Harry S. Truman’s address, January 20, 1949, from the first presidential inauguration to be televised. Truman, although having run as an incumbent after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, trailed his opponent in many polls of the day, similar to the data stream of 2016...

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