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2018
Nov
7
 
 
Intriguing television shows can pop in from almost anywhere these days, which is both the good and the exhausting news...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Nov
7
 
 
Dark Heart is also a dark television program. Besides telling an engaging if often grim story, it provides further proof that there are apparently an infinite number of variations on the troubled TV cop...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Nov
7
 
 
Even by this show’s standards, last week’s episode was really, really weird – but made room for Ann Dowd, who encouraged the new Antichrist, who got to kill a couple sacrificial (human) lambs, cause a call girl to spontaneously combust, and eventually be presented with a robotic recreation of his late, beloved satanic mentor, played by Kathy Bates (pictured). So now what?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Nov
7
 
 
Monday, on election eve, Samantha Bee hosted a pre-voting day special. Today, she’s back with her take on what happened yesterday. So now what?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Nov
6
 
 
Polls close in various states at various times – the first key races will begin reporting estimated partial results at 6 p.m. ET, in Kentucky and Indiana, and the several Congressional swing races in California won’t arrive to East Coast viewers until 11 p.m., give or take a month or so. (They count ballots very slowly there.) What I suggest, very strongly, is to settle on your cable news network of choice at 6 p.m. ET – whether it be Fox News, CNN or MSNBC – spend 10 min
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Nov
6
 
 
This is not a recommendation. Not tonight. NBC News, even though it has sister cable news network MSNBC to cover the slack and the voting results, pre-empts entertainment programming tonight for a prime-time midterm election special. Fox, though it has sister cable news network Fox News, does not – and, tonight, presents a new episode of the scripted fantasy series The Gifted. It’s a good show – but tonight, your attention should be elsewhere.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Nov
6
 
 
This is a recommendation. Especially tonight. No matter what happens at ballot box tonight, it follows mathematically that about half of us will be disappointed by the results, and, perhaps, disappointed very early into the evening. Knowing that, one of every two of us may be in need of some sort of reality-avoiding escape – and TCM, in prime time, presents one of the best movies ever made. And one of the most unblinkingly cynical, too, with a message of continuing to fight despite long od
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Nov
5
 
 
It’s week two of the Knockout Round – and with this being the eve of the political world’s own Knockout Round, it might be nice to watch a contest where the only thing at stake is a shot at fame and fortune. Plus, it’s got a good beat, and you can dance to it…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Nov
5
 
 
This 1931 movie is an early classic in the gangster genre. It premiered less than five years after Hollywood released its first full-length sound film, and benefited greatly not only from the sounds of screeching car tires and rat-a-tatting machine guns, but from the tough-guy sneering tones of Edward G. Robinson, who plays rising mobster Rico.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Nov
5
 
 
The evening before Election Day for the 2018 midterms, Samantha Bee presides over a special Monday night edition of Full Frontal. Consider it, as well as tonight’s late-night monologues by Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers and others, as the last exits on the cycle of this year’s election superhighway.