This week’s installment of this salute to Martin Scorsese in the 1970s presents three please-record-and-watch elements. The evening starts at 8 p.m. ET with Italianamerican, his 1974 salute to his mother. Then comes 1978’s The Last Waltz (pictured) at 9 p.m. ET, the farewell concert by The Band – and, with guest appearances by Bob Dylan and many, many others, one of the best concert films ever made. Then, at 11:15 p.m. ET, his early, 1972 drama, Boxcar Bertha, starring Barbara

2018

Sep

BETTER CALL SAUL By David Bianculli

Last week’s episode ended with a cliffhanger, with Rhea Seehorn’s Kim planning some sort of scheme to help one of Jimmy’s cronies avoid jail time. But while Jimmy (Bob Odenkirk) is slipping ever closer to the Saul Goodman persona (he already has the business cards for his shady drop-phone business), Kim is making it on her own as a respected attorney – so this could be leading to a major separation. And we know that’s coming, somewhere, because Kim is nowhere to be

2018

Sep

'JANE FONDA IN FIVE ACTS' IS A MORE AN OFFSTAGE LOOK AT THE ACTRESS By David Hinckley

Considering her eventful life, which now spans more than 80 years, it’s not surprising Jane Fonda has a lot to say about Jane Fonda...

2018

Sep

9-1-1 By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This is not a recommendation. This is the second year in a row that TVWW hasn’t provided a mass rundown of the new fall shows on broadcast TV, with many of our critics offering their capsule verdicts, and this is as good a time and place as any to explain why we haven’t. Basically, it’s because, for the second year in a row, the broadcast networks – individually and collectively – have, by and large, come up with such a derivative and disappointing

2018

Sep

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

For the moment, there are at least two Sunday shows related to recent news events that should be considered Must-See TV, because of the decidedly different perspectives they provide. One is this political documentary series, which burrows behind the headlines, and behind the press lines, to show how the news is gathered as well as generated. The other is HBO’s Last Week with John Oliver – and sometimes, the latter is even more instructive than the former.

2018

Sep

MASTERPIECE: "THE MINIATURIST" By David Bianculli

MINISERIES CONCLUSION: Part 3 of 3. This three-part dramatic import from the U.K. concludes, with Anya-Taylor Joy playing Nella Oortman, an 18-year-old woman with an unsettling arranged marriage and her own personal, precarious house of cards. Or, in her case, a scale-model dollhouse based on her own new home. Check local listings.

2018

Sep

THE DEUCE By David Bianculli

Among the corners to be turned this week are the successful attempt by Candy (Maggie Gyllenhaal), former prostitute and current aspiring porno filmmaker, to mount an X-rated, yet somehow artistic, version of a fairy tale. The source material she chooses is “Little Red Riding Hood.” And while I haven’t previewed this episode, I can easily imagine Little Red Riding Hood’s sense of wonder when she visits the Wolf in disguise: “My, grandma, what a big [noun deleted] you

2018

Sep

LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER By David Bianculli

This year, I have a few can’t-miss, want-to-watch-live TV favorites. Better Call Saul is one, and this series is another. Watching these shows each week make me feel a little better somehow – especially about television.

2018

Sep

THE SHAPE OF WATER By David Bianculli

Remember “Hush,” that ultra-creepy, almost entirely silent episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer? That’s the one in which the town of Sunnydale was invaded by creatures identified as The Gentlemen – cadaverish, grinning ghouls who floated through the city in search of chests to carve and hearts to steal. One of those silent, sinister Gentlemen was played by an actor named Doug Jones, pictured here in that brilliant 1999 episode of Buffy. I mention it here because, 18 years

2018

Sep

YELLOWSTONE By David Bianculli

This week’s installment of this new British nature series visits Yellowstone National Park in “Summer” (the episode’s title), when flora are flowering, fauna are frolicking, and I’m alliterating.

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