DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

ALEX STRACHAN

MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

MONIQUE NAZARETH

ROGER CATLIN

GARY EDGERTON

TOM BRINKMOELLER

GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
2019
Aug
2
 
 
Hooray. He’s back. Now tell us, Bill, what you thought of the debates thus far, and the Mueller testimony, and the latest Trump rallies, and everything else you didn’t get to talk about during your summer vacation from TV.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Aug
2
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: This newest HBO sketch series carves out some interesting territory, and finds some unexpected (as well as some very expected) targets for humor. But tonight’s opener, specifically, scores more in terms of premise than in actual laughs. It’s worth keeping an eye on, though, to see how, and if, it develops. For background info on A Black Lady Sketch Show, see the report from TCA's Press Tour with Mike Hughes' Open Mike.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Aug
1
 
 
There’s an unsettling parallel between Big Little Lies, the HBO drama that just wrapped up its second season, and No One Saw a Thing, a new Sundance documentary about a murder in a small Missouri town 38 years ago...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Aug
1
 
 
SERIES FINALE: This series has provided Rose McIver with the chance to portray as many different personalities and alter egos, over the years, as Scott Bakula got to play in Quantum Leap, and have as much fun as Tatiana Maslany playing all those clone sisters in Orphan Black. That all ends tonight – but does it end with her character, Liv, dying? Undying? Remaining a zombie? Being cured? In other words, will she remain a brain-eating zombie, or will she revert to being
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Aug
1
 
 
How is this possible? The Coen Brothers’ cinematic debut, the brilliant and twisted film noir mysteryBlood Simple, arrived in 1984. Which means it is now celebrating its 35thanniversary. That seems unthinkable, somehow, that we’ve had Joel and Ethan Coen, the super-creative siblings behindThe Big Lebowski and O Brother, Where Art Thou? making movies for a third of a century now – but they have. Dan Hedaya, John Getz and M. Emmett Walsh star in this
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Aug
1
 
 
LOS ANGELES – Just as CBS is renewing Love Island, its other summer reality show faces fresh scrutiny...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
31
 
 

Romcom alert! Romcom alert! At a time when you’re more likely to find a silent film than a good romantic comedy at the movies, Hulu has stepped into the void with Four Weddings and a Funeral...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
31
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: This 10-episode series, created by Mindy Kaling, is structurally similar to Noah Hawley’s FX series Fargo: It takes its inspiration from a 1990s movie, but takes only the spirit, creating its own plots and characters while using the film’s familiar title. This Hulu version of Four Weddings and a Funeral – again, like TV’s Fargo, neither a sequel nor a remake – starts in New York, where an American political operative na
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
31
 
 
Last night’s debate had the potential candidates with the highest poll rankings on the stage that night, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, fighting with other candidates instead of each other, and both emerged victoriously as a result. Tonight, the overall leading candidate, Joe Biden, has the center stage. Flanking him on either side: Kamala Harris, who upped her own profile by challenging him the last time, along with Cory Booker, Julian Castro, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Bill de Blasio.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jul
31
 
 
SEASON FINALE: This delightful, playful series is saying goodbye by presenting a double feature of its final two episodes. And since over-the-top telenovela twists and turns have been an integral part of Jane the Virgin from the start, expect major helpings of that as the series reaches the end.