A very long time ago, back in the mid-Sixties, executive producer Quinn Martin followed up The Fugitive with another drama about a man traveling alone on a seemingly unending quest. That series was The Invaders, and starred Roy Thinnes as a man who had a close encounter of the third kind, and spent the series trying to persuade people of the presence of aliens from outer space in our midst, passing as human. The aliens had an easy visual “tell” – webbed fingers – and on H

2018

Jun

LEGION By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: This Noah Hawley take on the Marvel Comics universe, basically a seasons-long study of paranoia, schizophrenia and the paranormal, has become my favorite TV series of 2018. It’s winding down season two, with only this bonus episode finale left to go – and even with that short a runway, I have no idea where it’s going. But with last week’s glimpses into potential alternate futures (David as an evil godlike despot, pictured) and weird alternate realities and

2018

Jun

GENIUS: "PICASSO" By David Bianculli

In tonight’s Episode 9, Picasso has a problem with the woman nearest him – and that goes for both the older and the younger Picassos, though the women, like the eras in which they interact with the artist, are decidedly different.

2018

Jun

SMITHSONIAN TAKES ITS OWN DIVE INTO PROHIBITION By David Hinckley

This may come as a posthumous surprise to those who couldn’t get a legal drink in the 1920s, but Prohibition was only incidentally about alcohol...

2018

Jun

PYGMALION By David Bianculli

Leslie Howard both co-directs and stars in this 1938 movie adaptation of the George Bernard Shaw play – and Shaw himself wrote the screenplay, winning an early Oscar for his efforts. Howard, of course, plays Henry Higgins, and the clay he’s trying to mold is cockney Eliza Doolittle, played by Wendy Hiller.

2018

Jun

WHOSE LINE IS IT ANYWAY? By David Bianculli

On one of TV’s slowest nights during one of TV’s slowest months, this improv comedy series is not only one of the few best bets, but one of television’s few reliably entertaining family programs left. The only drawback, really, is that every time I try and type “improv,” my computer’s spellcheck function “improves” it by “correcting” it to “improve.” Which, whenever I complain about technology taking as much as it gives, pre

2018

Jun

'THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK,' THIS TIME ON ACORN, IS ALWAYS IMPORTANT VIEWING By David Hinckley

If there’s a more important diary from the 20^th century than Anne Frank’s, it hasn’t yet surfaced...

2018

Jun

2018 TONY AWARDS By David Bianculli

SPECIAL: Many times, when a Tony host such as Neil Patrick Harris or James Corden shows up and makes a strong impression, there’s a good chance he or she will be invited back for an encore the following year. But last year, the host of the Tonys was Kevin Spacey, so… that’s not happening. Instead, this year’s 72nd annual Tony Awards is co-hosted by Josh Groban and Sara Bareillies.

2018

Jun

POSE By David Bianculli

This is episode two of this new series from Ryan Murphy and company, and the show’s trickiest part is over: introducing both the world and the leading characters of this particular New York subculture of the 1980s. The opener had its share of both triumphs and defeats, setting the stage for the protagonists, in the newly established competitive ballroom house known as Evangelista, to step forward.

2018

Jun

WESTWORLD By David Bianculli

Tonight’s episode spends time with characters who have been on the periphery, but key to certain points of the action, since this series began: the formidable, mysterious members of Ghost Nation.

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