DAVID BIANCULLI

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Associate Editor

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2018
Aug
7
 
 
Dripping with likability but yet to land The Big One, Jerry O’Connell takes the work where he can get it...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
7
 
 
Easily the most welcome news at press tour has been the announcement of the new season's plans for Fargo...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
6
 
 
Part of the reason the Breaking Bad prequel Better Call Saul has worked so well for three seasons is its refreshing quotient of humanity and humor...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
6
 
 
The line between comedy and drama, already a distant memory in some television neighborhoods, blurs further in AMC’s new Lodge 49...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
6
 
 
Tormented cops, and sometimes there seem to be no other kind on television except maybe for Tom Selleck on Blue Bloods, often have spells of depression...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
6
 
 
Jim Gavin was raised in Southern California - specifically Long Beach, where the quirks and characters of the sun-kissed area belted the strip malls, and the struggles on the ground...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
6
 
 
The gathering clouds of Russian spying carried over to the TV Critics Association’s 34th TCA Awards ceremony Saturday, with The Americans winning program of the year...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
6
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This British series launched overseas in 2015, and recently started its run stateside thanks to Acorn TV. Today marks the unveiling of Season 2, continuing the adventures of Joanna Scanlan as DI Vivienne Deering, an investigator who has more than her share of social quirks and flaws. And that’s not surprising since this series comes from Paul Abbott, whose output of lovable misfits includes the antagonistic protagonists of Cracker, State of Play, and Shameless. For a full
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
6
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: Season 4 of this superb Breaking Bad spinoff begins with two very different scenes, advancing the plot in two very different timelines and styles. And without giving any spoilers, let me rhapsodize a bit about both of those scenes. The pre-credits sequence, like all other Better Call Saul season openers, is shown in a black-and-white vignette set in the post-Breaking Bad future, and continues the story of Jimmy McGill a.k.a. Saul Goodman, now a.k.a. Gene Tacovic. And once again,
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Aug
6
 
 
Yu Xiuhua (pictured) is a 39-year-old woman with a high-school education, cerebral palsy, and, in her home country of China, an unusual amount of fame. She published a book of her own poems, a book that quickly became the best-selling poetry collection in China over the past 20 years. So the story of tonight’s P.O.V. is a success story – except that her success, and her unexpected fame, combine to give her another set of problems. Check local listings.