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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2018
Sep
26
SOUTH PARK By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: It’s Season 22 for this animated series. Stop and think of that for a second. Then think about how consistently the makers of this series have not only skewered sacred cows, but butchered and barbequed them. And tonight, South Park takes on one of the most third-rail topics of them all: school shootings, through the prism of gun ownership.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
26
KIDS GET THE UPPER HANDS AND THE WINNING LINES IN ABC'S 'SINGLE PARENTS' By Ed Bark
 
 
The kids are more than all right, and the grownups aren’t bad either in the new sitcom Single Parents. So maybe ABC has something here...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
26
THREE MEN AND A FATALITY IN ABC'S 'A MILLION LITTLE THINGS' By Ed Bark
 
 
Sometimes there’s no way around just stating the obvious. Which is: ABC very much wanted a This Is Us of its own. And the network thinks it has one in A Million Little Things...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
25
BE SURE TO SQUEEZE 'MR INBETWEEN' INTO YOUR SCHEDULE By David Hinckley
 
 
FX’s surprisingly affecting new comedy Mr Inbetween picks up on a small, but striking point that has also surfaced in shows like Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. Call it the sacrifices you make to pursue a career in crime...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
25
'NEW AMSTERDAM' NEEDS A LOT OF MEDICINE IF IT'S GOING TO SURVIVE By David Hinckley
 
 
NBC’s doctor show, New Amsterdam, combines medicine with fantasy, which might sound like a winning combination these days except that’s probably not what the network was trying to do...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
25
DICK WOLF IS LANDING AT CBS FOR 'FBI' By David Hinckley
 
 
The fact that the new CBS series FBI was created by Dick Wolf tells you a lot of what you need to know. But, it turns out, not all...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
25
THE VOICE By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: Part 2 of 2. Last night’s episode established the rapport, and tensions, among this year’s quartet of judges: veterans Blake Shelton and Adam Levine, and relative newbies Kelly Clarkson and Jennifer Hudson. Of the four, former American Idol winner’s enthusiasm and cockiness plays well, while Hudson’s wobbles between playful and egotistical. But overall, it’s a comfortable chemistry, and these early “Blind Audition Rounds” are among the s
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
25
THE GIFTED By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: To begin Season 2, The Gifted starts with a realignment of the power structure within the fugitive mutant community – then jumps forward in time six months, to explore the effects of that change in leadership. Season 1 of The Gifted was one of the better new sci-fi shows probing the minority-treatment theme by looking at human’s wariness of mutants – a theme even more timely as we begin Season 2.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
25
THIS IS US By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: One of the few remaining broadcast TV dramas of recent seasons to generate buzz and acclaim, this NBC series returns for Season 3. Now that it’s explained the cause of Jack’s death, it’s focusing on new mysteries – including one that will be teased, and a bit more explained, in tonight’s season premiere episode.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
25
FBI By David Bianculli
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: This is not a recommendation. It’s worth noting, so I’m noting it, that longtime NBC executive producer Dick Wolf, creator of the Law & Order and Chicago franchises for that network, is generating a new series – for CBS this time, and with an even shorter title than the classic ABC series The F.B.I. Stars include Jeremy Sisto and Missy Peregrym. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
New From TVWW

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'
By Ed Bark
 
 
 
 
Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver
By Christy Slewinski
 
 
 
 
'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy
By Noel Holston
 
 
 
 

Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James
By Mike Hughes
 
 
 
 
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self
By Monique Nazareth
 
 
 
 
Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption
By David Hinckley