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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive

2012

Sep

AN APPOINTMENT TO VIEW, A DESIRE TO BINGE By Mark Bianculli

When watching an intentionally serialized piece of art, is it better to delay or to demand? To wait, or not to wait?...

2012

Sep

1966: CBS ACCEPTS 'MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE' By Christy Slewinski

On this day in 1966, CBS premiered the espionage series Mission: Impossible...

2012

Sep

PUPPET CLASS GONE VERY, VERY WRONG By Eric Gould

Bill Hader continues to show why he's one of the top SNL guns; last night he played a PTSD war veteran bringing his talents, such as they are, to a puppet class lead by Family Guy creator and guest host Seth MacFarlane...

2012

Sep

60 MINUTES By David Bianculli

Even after such a hard news week, 60 Minutes makes room for some lighter fare — but almost always, it carries its own weight. Tonight, Anderson Cooper profiles and interviews Adele, who explains just what she didn’t do, and won’t do, during her ascent to musical stardom.

2012

Sep

THE CRIMSON PETAL AND THE WHITE By David Bianculli

The fabulous Encore miniseries, shown over two nights earlier this week, tonight is presented in its entirety, in a handy four-hour viewing (and recording) block. If you missed it before, don’t miss it again. Romala Garai, Chris O’Dowd, Gillian Anderson star in this story of a prostitute in 1874 London. For a full review, see my Bianculli’s Blog.

2012

Sep

MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!: “WALLANDER III” By David Bianculli

Tonight’s new episode, The Dogs of Riga, has Wallander (Kenneth Branagh) traveling to the Latvian capital, as he investigates the case of two dead Latvians whose charred bodies were carried by the current into Sweden.

2012

Sep

BORDWALK EMPIRE By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Time jumps ahead to 1923, as Nucky (Steve Buscemi) rings in the new year, but with at least as much apprehension as celebration. New cast members include Bobby Cannavale (pictured), playing a hot-tempered thug named Gyp Rosetti. For a full review, see Eric Gould’s Cold Light Reader.

2012

Sep

WEEDS By David Bianculli

SERIES FINALE: I agree with those critics who suggest that this series has gone on for a few seasons too long — but for providing a weekly showcase for the sparkling, estimable talents of Mary-Louise Parker (as well as the already transplanted and less adeptly used Justin Kirk, on NBC’s Animal Practice), I’ll keep watching to the end. Which is tonight, in an expanded one-hour finale that returns Parker’s Nancy to the suburbs from which she came.

2012

Sep

J.J. ABRAMS' DARK WORLD By Ed Bark

Revolution, the most promising and expensive new series on NBC's fall schedule, is from the guy who keeps conjuring up doomsday or, at best, very foreboding scenarios...

2012

Sep

A PREPOSTEROUS MIX OF SYRINGES AND SHIVS By Ed Bark

Fox has grown accustomed to having a Monday night doctor in the house. Now it has The Mob Doctor, a notably inferior exercise in dese, dems and doses...

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