Yes, The Simpsons has been churning out these annual, anything-goes Treehouse of Horror fantasy anthologies for XXIX years now. That’s astounding. And these installments always are among the show’s most inventive, because there are no rules, and most segments include the death of at least one familiar character along the way. Tonight’s show includes a segment spoofing Jurassic Park, in which at least one of the prize specimens is Jurassic, or at least geriatric, in her own righ

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Oct

THE CIRCUS: INSIDE THE WILDEST POLITICAL SHOW ON EARTH By David Bianculli

This week’s show covers three key Senate races in the 2018 midterms – and covers them by sending correspondents there to test political temperatures at ground level. John Heilemann goes to North Dakota to interview Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (pictured); Alex Wagner interviews another Democrat, Nevada Representative Jacky Rosen, who’s running for the Senate opposite Republican incumbent Dean Heller; and Mark McKinnon travels to Arizona to cover both sides of one of the most

2018

Oct

DOCTOR WHO By David Bianculli

Jodie Whittaker, as the newest Doctor, has established both her presence and her personality, as well as a handy little alien self-defense move that’s even cooler than Spock’s Vulcan nerve pinch. Tonight, the Doctor takes the TARDIS, and the new companions, on a road trip through time, and to the planet Earth. The date: 1955. The place: Montgomery, AL. The person encountered there, whose historic contributions may be in danger of being altered by others: Rosa Parks (Vinette Robinson,

2018

Oct

THE WALKING DEAD By David Bianculli

The bridge needs to be rebuilt – infrastructure is key, even after the apocalypse – and the different communities team up to accomplish that mission. But not without a lot of conflict, which has Daryl (Norman Reedus) and Carol (Melissa McBride) holding off a mutiny, and Daryl and Maggie (Lauren Cohan) taking off on their own (pictured). Maintaining the peace is tricky... but I guess they'll cross that bridge when they come to it...

2018

Oct

THE DEUCE By David Bianculli

Both bartender Vincent (James Franco) and aspiring filmmaker Candy (Maggie Gyllenhaal) are tasting success at the moment, which means change, and conflict, for both of them. Vincent may want to chuck it all, and give up life on the Deuce for a more mainstream existence in the suburbs, happily nested with Abby (Margarita Levieva). Candy, meanwhile, is wrapping up her “Red Hot” X-rated film version of the Little Red Riding Hood story – a project that has begun to attract both att

2018

Oct

THE WOMAN IN WHITE By David Bianculli

MINISERIES PREMIERE: This new five-part miniseries import from Great Britain takes a novel published in 1859, Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White, and adapts it anew, staying very close to the gothic novels’ plot, setting and characters, yet structuring the conflicts in such a way that it becomes a grippingly relevant drama about women’s rights and oppressions. Filmed in northern Ireland, this version stars Jessie Buckley as Marian Halcombe, who argues in court to protect the ri

2018

Oct

SOME PLAIN TRUTHS IN HBO'S 'MY DINNER WITH HERVÉ' ABOUT THE GUY WHO BRIEFLY SOARED TO FAME ON "DE PLANE! DE PLANE!" By Ed Bark

First let’s get this out of the way -- and quickly. Those who have accused HBO and Peter Dinklage of “whitewashing” the role of Hervé Villechaize are at best uninformed idiots...

2018

Oct

MY DINNER WITH HERVE By David Bianculli

MOVIE PREMIERE: The basic description of this new HBO telemovie makes it sound like a comic tossaway: a journalist interviews the former Fantasy Island co-star, Herve Villechaize, about a decade after the actor had been dismissed from that show for demanding a pay raise for playing Tattoo (“De plane! De plane!”). But My Dinner with Herve is neither comic nor a tossaway. Based on actual interviews conducted by reporter Sacha Gervasi in 1993, this drama stars Jamie Dornan of Fifty Shad

2018

Oct

2018 NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES By David Bianculli

The Milwaukee Brewers did it. Facing elimination in last night’s Game 6, with the Los Angeles Dodgers holding a 3-2 lead in the National League pennant series, the Brewers kept fighting. The game started with the Dodgers scoring a run right out of the box at the top of the first – but in the bottom of the first, Milwaukee answered with a four-run bombardment, and never looked back. That’s why, tonight, the two teams meet one last time, for a do-or-die Game 7. The winner faces t

2018

Oct

NETFLIX BRINGS BACK THE EXCITEMENT OF 'MARVEL'S DAREDEVIL' By David Hinckley

Marvel’s Daredevil did the right thing with its alpha villain back in Season 1. It didn’t kill him. It just locked him up...

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