Last week’s Season 2 premiere of The Deuce delivered strongly and assuredly – and established a new set of conflicts, and goals, that should feed this drama season (and its viewers) all season. And, once again, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Candy steals the show, and single-handledly makes this series more intriguing, and less exploitive, than it might otherwise have seemed.

2018

Sep

70TH PRIMETIME CREATIVE ARTS EMMY AWARDS By David Bianculli

There’s no drama in tonight’s televised ceremony: this particular part of the Emmy Awards for 2018 was held earlier this month, with awards going to, among others, Black Mirror for the Star Trek-reflecting U.S.S. Callister episode (pictured) as Outstanding TV Movie or Miniseries, in the same year that the original Star Trek series is given a special Governors Award. The bulk of this year’s Emmys, though, will be handed out live on Monday night. That’s when the real drama

2018

Sep

PITCH PERFECT 3 By David Bianculli

The singing Bellas reunite for this 2017 musical comedy, competing in an overseas USO tour – and facing competition whose arsenal includes more than just their singing voices. Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow and Hailee Steinfeld star.

2018

Sep

YELLOWSTONE By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY MINISERIES PREMIERE: BBC America’s weekly Saturday night unveilings of original Saturday night nature documentary series continues with this latest one, a multi-part visit to Yellowstone. In this opener, the filmmakers look at the national park in winter. That’s when I visited the park, back when they allowed people to rent snowmobiles and roam freely. My old faithful friend John Sawinski planned the multi-family ski trip then, and rented our vehicles. What a guy. And, al

2018

Sep

FOREVER By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This new eight-part Amazon series, starring Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen, is the sort of series that is not only difficult to describe, but unfair. They play a long-married couple, and what happens to them and their relationship in this show – well, that’s the show, and to give any hints about it at all would dilute the fun for the viewer who’s enjoying it. So give it a try, and, if you like the tone and characters, stay tuned and enjoy. If not, parachute out

2018

Sep

THE FIRST By David Bianculli

SPECIAL PREMIERE: This new Hulu drama series, starring Sean Penn as an astronaut in the early 2030s, when private investors are pushing for a manned mission to Mars, is another series that’s best left with very little description. Its secrets, and its characters, are revealed slowly, and sometimes in visual hints and mysterious flashbacks, like Sharp Objects or Better Call Saul. And yes, those are very high bars, which this series approaches enough times to make sampling. For my full revie

2018

Sep

BOJACK HORSEMAN By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: I would have thought it too early to mine any humor at all out of sexual harassment in Hollywood – but somehow, this season premiere of Bojack Horseman, starring Will Arnett as the voice of a discontented Hollywood actor (a talking horse, at that), manages to pull it off, with punch lines that made me laugh out loud, even if I can’t, or won’t, quote them.

2018

Sep

NORM MACDONALD HAS A SHOW By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Norm Macdonald, at the moment, is a somewhat polarizing and controversial figure. But this new series, whose executive producers (and one of its Season 1 guests) include David Letterman, can be judged on its own merits. As such, as a talk show with only a handful of studio colleagues and workers as witnesses, and with one guest per episode, Norm Macdonald Has a Show isn’t very good. The host has a quick comic mind, but he’s not a good interviewer, period. The guest f

2018

Sep

THE LAND OF STEADY HABITS By David Bianculli

MOVIE PREMIERE: This new TV movie stars Ben Mendelsohn, the best thing about Bloodline, as a man whose marriage has fallen apart, and who is starting over, walking away from his job as well as his family life. It moves slowly, but is worth it because, among other reasons, its female co-stars are two of my favorite actresses: Edie Falco (pictured, with Mendelsohn) and Connie Britton.

2018

Sep

SUNDAY’S BEST: CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF CBS SUNDAY MORNING By David Bianculli

CBS’s flagship Sunday Morning program began with the quiet dignity and soft poetry of Charles Kuralt, and has worked hard to reflect that high standard ever since, making the Sunday program the TV equivalent of a well-written, wide-ranging Sunday newspaper. Today, for an hour, CBS celebrates its 40th anniversary – one of the very few causes CBS has, right now, to celebrate.

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