L.A. Detective Harry Bosch, as played by Titus Welliver, figures he can beat most criminals. Overcoming himself is a different kettle of demons, and that’s the adversary Harry is confronting in the second season of the taut and engaging series Bosch, which just dropped on Amazon...

2016

Mar

'NASHVILLE' IS SOAP, SO HERE IS WHAT THE WEDDING MIGHT MEAN By David Hinckley

Nothing says “Thank you!” to the fans of a TV show like a wedding between two of their favorite, most sympathetic characters...

2016

Mar

FX'S 'THE AMERICANS' SURVIVES AND THRIVES, JOINING SOME OF THE BEST By David Hinckley

Okay, I confess: FX’s The Americans has maintained its death-defying tension longer and better than I thought it could...

2016

Mar

A NEW 'CRIMINAL MINDS' TAKES US 'BEYOND BORDERS' FOR ITS CRIME OF THE WEEK By David Hinckley

An innocent bystander that could get clipped by our current barrage of complex TV crime/adventure thrillers is good old-fashioned procedurals like CBS’s new Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders...

2016

Mar

AUSSIE CRIME DRAMA 'JANET KING' DEBUTS ON ACORN By David Hinckley

Janet King seems to live in a state of perpetual exasperation. As played by Marta Dusseldorp, she wears it well...

2016

Mar

CASELLA SHAPES THE SOUND OF THE MUSIC OF 'VINYL' By David Hinckley

Thanks to the new HBO show Vinyl, Max Casella is getting a do-over on the music of the 1970s. The first time around, when he was growing up in Cambridge, Mass., he was listening to family records and the radio...

2016

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'AND THEN THERE WERE NONE' UNFOLDS SLOWLY ON LIFETIME By David Hinckley

And Then There Were None, the latest retelling of Agatha Christie’s most famous crime mystery novel, delivers 10 killings in record time. But not the record you might think...

2016

Mar

AUDRA MCDONALD RECREATES THE TRAGIC MUSICAL LIFE OF BILLIE HOLIDAY By David Hinckley

Like most great singers, Billie Holiday never had to explain what she was singing about...

2016

Mar

WILL ARNETT GIVES US ANOTHER SAD CLOWN IN NETFLIX'S 'FLAKED' By David Hinckley

Who knew this would be such a fruitful TV year for sad clowns? Is it, like, another effect of El Niño? Will Arnett’s new Flaked, which drops Friday on Netflix, is comedy playing off against a story that’s deeply melancholy.

2016

Mar

'UNDERGROUND' IS A POWERFUL TELLING OF A CONTEMPTIBLE TIME By David Hinckley

Underground tackles what some have persuasively argued is the central moral dilemma of the whole American experience: slavery and what it says about our broader struggle with the noble concept of “all men are created equal.”...

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