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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2016
Sep
1
'GROUND ZERO RISING: FREEDOM VS. FEAR' DOC: REMEMBRANCE AND ANALYSIS By David Hinckley
 
 
CNBC’s Ground Zero Rising: Freedom vs. Fear, one of the first documentary specials on the 15th anniversary of September 11, starts to ask the right questions...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
30
HERE’S ANOTHER BIANCULLI DISASTER, BUT THIS TIME IT’S COMING TO ABC By Eric Gould
 
 
David’s had his ups and downs this summer with a recent illness and continues to be on the glowing upswing. (He sends his regards from the lounger.)...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
30
AYA CASH SAYS 'YOU'RE THE WORST' IS IN THERAPY By David Hinckley
 
 
Okay, Aya Cash agrees, clinical depression isn’t the classic raw material for television comedy. But then last season the funniest thing happened to Gretchen Cutler, Cash’s character on the FXX comedy You’re the Worst: She outed her clinical depression and the show got better...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
29
EVEN THOUGH "LIMITED," 'THE NIGHT OF' SHOULD RETURN By David Hinckley
 
 
HBO did one of two things Sunday with The Night Of: It either played us for suckers or set us up for another spin on a great thrill ride...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
28
DARK MATTERS By Eric Gould
 
 
Those following HBO’s The Night Of are probably fans of the miniseries’ art direction — artfully out-of-focus and unsaturated scenes that convey the brooding, complex mood...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
28
WHAT’S IN A WORD: FROM ‘EYEBALLS’ TO ‘THE CREATIVE,’ A LIST OF REALLY ANNOYING JARGON USED BY TV EXECUTIVES By Alex Strachan
 
 
Just last week — days ago, in fact — Oxford Dictionaries launched a worldwide online vote to determine the least popular word in the English language...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
27
FIND OUT WHY EVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT 'THE NIGHT OF' By David Hinckley
 
 
If you only had time to watch one new show this summer and you picked HBO’s The Night Of, you made the right call...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
27
BEST BETS UPDATE By David Bianculli
 
 
TVWW Update: David continues to be on the upswing — and, hey, watching a heck of a lot of TV. He’s just not writing about it quite yet...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
26
AMAZON’S ‘THE KICKS’ OFFERS MESSAGES FOR THE KIDS AND HUMOR FOR THE ADULTS By David Hinckley
 
 
Amazon’s new drama The Kicks is cool enough for kids and reassuring enough for their parents...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Aug
25
JOSEPH SIKORA ON TOMMY EGAN'S 'POWER' By David Hinckley
 
 
It’s a dark-humor gag in television that “diversity” means casting a black actor as the incongruous best friend of the lead actor in an otherwise all-white world. In that sense, Joseph Sikora’s Tommy Egan is the flip side...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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