SEASON FINALE: Anthony Bourdain was working on Season 6 of his CNN food and travel and culture series when he committed suicide recently, a tragedy, and a legacy, covered by TVWW in Eric Gould’s The Cold Light Reader (in two pieces: the first was this one) and Alex Strachan’s TV That Matters. Tonight on CNN, the network premieres the finale of Bourdain’s Season 5: “Bhutan,” in which Bourdain takes filmmaker Darren Aronofsky on a market tour that covers everything fr

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A HAIL MARY FOR 'LUCIFER' By Monique Nazareth

Lucifer has been saved… by Netflix. But was it worth saving?...

2018

Jun

POSE By David Bianculli

Tonight’s episode is called “The Fever” – and while it could refer to the excitement generated by these somewhat hedonistic New York fashion balls, it certainly also refers to the encroaching AIDS epidemic, which at this point in the mid-1980s was just becoming widely known, and just as widely misunderstood.

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WESTWORLD By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: There’s a real sense of impending danger, if not doom, in tonight’s extended Season 2 finale. All of the surviving major characters are heading to the same place (and some of the non-surviving ones, too, since they’ve been repaired and rebooted, or even hijacked). More characters than ever are self-aware, and many of them, through different means, are seeking either freedom or immortality. Or both.

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SUCCESSION By David Bianculli

The power plays in this series keep intensifying – as do the performances by this very talented company of actors.

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LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER By David Bianculli

John Oliver was on to the immigrant child issue weeks before most of the media, devoting one week’s central segment to an imagined kiddie court where clueless youngsters serve as lawyers and judges for various adult defendants. It was the flip side of the then-current reality, when young defendants, required legally to defend their status as immigrants entering the U.S., had no idea what was at stake, or how to proceed, and when not even the courts were equipped to help them. So how will O

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A VIVID AND DRAMATIC LOOK AT WWII WITH 'THE PACIFIC WAR IN COLOR' By David Hinckley

Documentaries on significant events like world wars tend to be meticulously produced. That’s also true for The Pacific War In Color...

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'THE CONNERS' GETS A GREENLIGHT FROM ABC AFTER IT PUT A STOP TO 'ROSEANNE' By Ed Bark

Roseanne Barr remains unemployed, but her former castmates and crew are on ABC’s payroll anew...

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2018 FIFA WORLD CUP By David Bianculli

All three of today’s World Cup games are televised by Fox, so you don’t even need cable to watch a day’s worth of live action from Russia. The first game, at 8 a.m. ET, pits the dominant Belgium team against Tunisia. The second game, at 11 a.m., presents South Korea vs. Mexico. Mexico, of course, stunned everyone in the first round of games by defeating defending champion Germany. And the final game, Germany vs. Sweden (at 2 p.m. ET), allows Germany its shot at redemption, with

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KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE By David Bianculli

This 2017 sequel offers the same high levels of action and energy as the original Kingsman film, but the main draw for this one is the supporting cast assembled to surround recent spy recruit Eggsy (Taron Egerton) and veteran secret agent Harry (Colin Firth). This time around, there’s a new villain, a sort of cross between Martha Stewart and Dr. Evil (played by Julianne Moore, pictured), and new American spy counterparts (played by, among others, Jeff Bridges and Halle Berry).

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