I raved about last week’s Season 3 premiere of Legion – and I’ll keep raving about this show until, and no doubt after, this final season concludes. I’ve seen the next handful of episodes in advance, and they’re a stunningly inventive TV thrill ride. In tonight’s episode, David (Dan Stevens) gets to time travel to alter the world’s future, with the newly introduced Switch (Lauren Tsai, pictured) as his guide.

2019

Jul

DIVORCE By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Sarah Jessica Parker, in her post-Sex and the City HBO series, returns for Season 3, as her character and her ex, played by Thomas Haden Church, get on with their respective, now diverging lives. And as we rejoin them, his life now includes even more room for his new love, played by former Ugly Betty player Becki Newton, who this season of Divorce is promoted to series regular. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.

2019

Jul

LEGION By David Bianculli

A future version of Syd (Rachel Keller) fears that the powerful mutant psychic David (Dan Stevens) is the reason the world ends, and travels back in time to kill him before that happens. David, meanwhile, hopes that if he travels back in time himself, he can put things right, and establish a new time line that doesn’t involve destroying the planet. And in the weird world of Legion, it’s quite possible they’re both right… Regardless, this is another stunning epi

2019

Jun

A SPY THRILLER WITH A TWIST, 'THE ROOK' MAKES IT TO STARZ By David Hinckley

Like its older sister Outlander, Starz’s new drama The Rook doesn’t parlay a supernatural premise into a supernatural show...

2019

Jun

RUSSELL CROWE CHANNELS ROGER AILES IN 'THE LOUDEST VOICE' By Mike Hughes

He had the loudest voice, the bulkiest body, the most relentless mind. It shouldn't surprise us, then, that Roger Ailes dominated television, then dominated American life...

2019

Jun

BIG LITTLE LIES By David Bianculli

As this season of Big Little Lies has gotten deeper into its plot, Meryl Streep has gotten deeper into her role – and she’s now established her character of the grieving mother as a kind of conniving Columbo. She’s a woman who’s constantly underestimated, but who notices everything, and always has one last question to make the people around her uncomfortable. She, too, is working on a murder case – or at least she thinks so (and correctly, it should be add

2019

Jun

CITY ON A HILL By David Bianculli

Here’s another series, or miniseries, where the plot is getting to gumbo consistency this season. And here, part of the ingredients making this particular stew both thicker and tastier are the character actors, especially the women. Jill Hennessey, Kathryn Erbe and (pictured) Sarah Shahi all stand out in small roles, as do many of the men, familiar from other gritty TV dramas: Lee Tergeson from Oz, Lenny Clarke from Rescue Me, and James Remar from Dexter.

2019

Jun

WHAT JUST HAPPENED? By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This new summer series from Fox brings Fred Savage, the star of ABC’s The Wonder Years (and, much more recently, Fox’s underappreciated The Grinder), back to prime-time TV, as the host of an after-show talk show, celebrating and deconstructing the show televised just before it – a.k.a. Talking Dead after The Walking Dead on AMC. Savage is the host of What Just Happened?, a show that reacts to the events on that

2019

Jun

THE GOOD FIGHT By David Bianculli

CBS has been doubling up on its broadcast TV showings of its CBS All Access series The Good Fight, but tonight the telecasts begin being pared back to single doses, at the later hour of 10 p.m. ET. So if you’re watching here on CBS, this is the new time to watch. But I’d suggest getting the DVD, or subscribe to All Access, before watching these cut-down versions. Even so, Christine Baranski, Cush Jumbo and company are indeed worth the time – even if they and their&nbs

2019

Jun

THE LOUDEST VOICE By David Bianculli

MINISERIES PREMIERE: This is not a recommendation. Russell Crowe stars as Fox News Channel creator Roger Ailes, in this miniseries dramatization of the network’s rise, and Ailes’ fall. It’s a fascinating subject, but the three episodes I previewed were less than impressive. For my review on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, visit the Fresh Air website. And for full reviews here at TVWW, see Ed Bark's Uncle Barky's Bytes and Mike Hughes' Open

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