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2015
Nov
9
 
 
So far, this musical comedy series has managed to maintain both its momentum and cleverness. And tonight, Rebecca (Rachel Bloom) defends her own honor, at least in terms of trying to be interested in the problems of others.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Nov
9
 
 
FX keeps sending advance episodes of this series for preview – and I keep gobbling them up, because Fargo, this season, has become one of my very favorite shows, right up there with Better Call Saul, The Good Wife and The Walking Dead. The acting and writing are equally riveting – and only The Walking Dead rivals Fargo for flat-out intensity. And this season, Fargo may boast an even higher body count. Tonight, Ted Danson is wonderful – and he’s not the only one.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Nov
9
 
 
I haven’t seen this show – but based on similar History specials, and on logic and common sense, this episode should be called Gullible Viewers Captured. The reason to watch? It’s not to see Bigfoot, that’s for sure…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Nov
8
 
 
The Starz company line regarding Flesh and Bone is that its costs and logistics skewered an initial plan to make it a year-to-year series and cut it down to a one-shot eight-hour miniseries...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Nov
8
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Starz is calling this a “limited series,” but it’s so limited – to eight one-hour episodes in its first and (as planned) only season – that it’s actually a miniseries by definition. It’s a drama about a ballet dancer who arrives in New York in search of work and stardom – but it’s much darker a drama than you might suspect from that brief description. It’s created and co-executive produced by Moria Walley-Beckett, one o
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Nov
8
 
 
Because of the way this series is parceling out its stories, we still don’t know the fate of one of its key characters, who may or may not have been reduced to zombie food a few episodes ago. (I’m betting “not.”) Well, tonight, we’re back behind the wall – but whether or not that leads to an answer to this season’s big question, we’ll have to wait and see. But we were going to do that anyway…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Nov
8
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Just a note, that the only truly noteworthy thing about this new spy series is the casting, and not of the title role – which is played by Jeff Hephner as an American spy under the control of the Vice President. The twist, and the lure, is that the new Vice President inheriting this top-secret weapon is played by Sharon Stone – and her helper is played by Gerard McRaney, who of late has made a habit of turning in stunning supporting performances in such series as Dea
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Nov
8
 
 
Alicia (Julianna Margulies) has her new team. And tonight gets her first noteworthy case – meanwhile, Eli (Alan Cumming) decides to do something about his demoted standing in her husband Peter’s political campaign – and what he does may blow back on Alicia.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Nov
8
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: Laurie Metcalf and company return for a short, six-episode Season 3 of this comedy about hospital caregivers, attending to elderly patients under the crunch of understaffing and over-demand. In other words, it’s Code Black: The Comedy Version. Which, for the record, is a much more entertaining prospect.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2015
Nov
8
 
 
We’re stepping away from television into current film news this week but with good reason: one of our most memorable television actors, Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) is stepping into one of the most memorable Hollywood true stories — the blacklisting of novelist and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo...