SPECIAL PREMIERE: Today the streaming service BroadwayHD unveils a new offering: the London West End production of the musical Kinky Boots, starring Matt Henry as Lola and Killian Donnelly as Charlie.

2019

Jul

YEARS AND YEARS By David Bianculli

This is episode four of Russell T. Davies’ amazingly inventive look into our possible near future – and because this miniseries already premiered in its native England, we know to tread lightly tonight. Previous episodes have focused as much on the political and the technology as anything else, but tonight it all gets very personal. Imagine if This Is Us didn’t have flashbacks, but instead had flash-forwards, yet still had you invested greatly in the lives of its cent

2019

Jul

GROUNDHOG DAY By David Bianculli

You’ve read my Best Bets recommending this 1993 Bill Murray comedy many times before. Or have you?

2019

Jul

LEGION By David Bianculli

FX and series creator Noah Hawley have taken to describing episodes in this final season of Legion in much the same cryptic, concise manner in which David Lynch described his revival series of Twin Peaks, with single-phrase capsule descriptions that revealed virtually nothing. FX’s summary for tonight’s new Legion episode is: “Time is preyed upon.” And that’s it. Well, I’ve seen the episode in advance, and… FX and Hawley ar

2019

Jul

A REFRESHING LOOK AT STARTING OUT IN NEW YORK ON 'SWEETBITTER' By David Hinckley

Meet the new Tess, not the same as the old Tess...

2019

Jul

A NEW VICAR JOINS 'GRANTCHESTER' ON PBS By David Hinckley

Not to get all melodramatic or anything, but Grantchester opens Season 4 with life-threatening major surgery...

2019

Jul

THE MOVIES: "THE NINETIES" By David Bianculli

Last week, this new CNN arts documentary series launched by looking at movies of the 1980s. Tonight’s episode focuses on, and is titled, “The Nineties,” and comes from the same executive production team – Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, and Mark Herzog – that delivered so beautifully with its decades-focused CNN series from The Sixties to The 2000s. (I’m in the leadoff installments, devoted to TV, in each decade series, but that’s not why I

2019

Jul

BIG LITTLE LIES By David Bianculli

“At the end of the day we are still family,” Meryl Streep’s Mary Louise tells her late son’s wife, Nicole Kidman’s Celeste. Coldly and with understandable wariness, Celeste responds, “We are not family, Mary Louise.” And so it goes, as the mother-in-law gets closer to the truth about what happened to her husband. And behind the scenes, stories of discord have surfaced regarding the creative family behind Big Little Lies, with Season 2 director

2019

Jul

CITY ON A HILL By David Bianculli

In this week’s episode, things get trickier for Kevin Bacon’s Jackie and Aldis Hodge’s DeCourcy, as reporter Michaela Freda, played by Samantha Soule, crosses their path to ask some very pointed and uncomfortable questions.

2019

Jul

SWEETBITTER By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: For Season 2 of this series, set in a trendy restaurant in New York, the protagonist (Ella Purnell as Tess) is less a newly arrived babe in the big city woods, and more an increasingly savvy fledgling restaurant opportunist, eager to learn things and make her move. With a very stern boss, the world she’s inhabiting is a bit like a Gordon Ramsey scripted drama, with Tess as the harassed contestant most likely to succeed.

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