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2019
Oct
18
 
 
Some 14 years passed between the time John Green's Looking for Alaska became a prize-winning debut novel and the arrival of its video incarnation...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Oct
18
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: This new anthology series, each episode of which stars different actors and tells of a different love story, presents eight episodes in this first season – and, like any anthology series, range in quality. But the umbrella premise is intriguing, and I’m a big fan of the anthology format. The first episode stars Cristin Milioti, who’s already scored big in another anthology series by starring in the U.S.S. Callister episode of Black Mirror, p
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Oct
18
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Paul Rudd has a dual role here, playing a somewhat hapless man and his genetically engineered, vastly superior clone. Imagine The Odd Couple, with the same man rooming with his fussier, more together lookalike. It’s a goofy premise, but Rudd takes it seriously enough to carry it off. Both roles.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Oct
18
 
 
The 2019 postseason is a perfect example why the games are played, rather than just decided beforehand based on reputations and expectations. Two of the most powerful postseason names in baseball, for example, are the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees, power teams of their respective coasts. But already in this postseason, the Dodgers have been dispatched by the lowly wild-card Washington Nationals, who are representing the National League in the World Series. And tonight, in Game 5 of th
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Oct
18
 
 
I’m a long-time fan of Graham Norton and his particular brand of talk show, for which he brings all his guests out to share the same couch at the same time – then serves liquor and gets them all to talk – and, unavoidably, listen. Some guests are terrible at having the spotlight shone on someone else (yes, that’s you, Madonna), but others are terrific. And tonight’s lineup is celebrity-heavy even for Norton: his guests tonight include Bruce Springsteen, Robert de Ni
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Oct
17
 
 
Talk about a pivotal childhood moment: In tonight’s new episode, Sheldon discovers the Lord of the Rings book series. For someone like Sheldon, it’s definitely about to become Hobbit-forming…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Oct
17
 
 
Yesterday’s scheduled Game 4 in the ALCS was postponed due to inclement weather (as in Bob Dylan’s proverbial “Buckets of Rain”). That game is restaged tonight, with the New York Yankees hosting. But they’re behind, 2-1, in this best-of-seven series against the Houston Astros.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Oct
17
 
 
This is the second week I’ve been recording and posting and disseminating “Best TV Tomorrow” mini-videos – and for the second week in a row, The Good Place gets mentioned as the best thing on television tonight. Read it here first. Watch it here second. Or vice versa…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Oct
17
 
 
Tonight’s episode has the team investigating Eric, a 9-year-old who exhibits strongly psychopathic behaviors. But is he antisocial – or possessed?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Oct
17
 
 
This 1963 movie, at the time of its release, was one of the scariest, most effectively creepy haunted-house films ever released.  And guess what? Fifty-six years later, it still is. Julie Harris stars.