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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2017
Mar
8
SYFY’S ‘THE EXPANSE’ FEATURES THE WORKING CLASS – IN ABOUT 200 YEARS By David Hinckley
 
 
Perhaps contrary to its title, the Syfy space drama The Expanse, in its own way, shrinks the universe...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Mar
8
‘UNDERGROUND’ IS A COMPLEX, INTELLIGENT RETELLING OF THE STORY OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD By David Hinckley
 
 
One of the best shows on television, WGN America’s Underground, resurfaces Wednesday night...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Mar
7
INSIGHT INTO THE WANING SEASONS OF ‘THE AMERICANS’ FROM EPS WEISBERG AND FIELDS By David Hinckley
 
 
Since none of Joe Weisberg’s earliest concerns about The Americans turned out to be a problem, he sees no point in worrying now whether the show can stick the landing...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Mar
6
ROBERT OSBORNE MAY 3, 1932 – MARCH 6, 2017 By David Hinckley
 
 
Robert Osborne showed us why television, more than any other medium, turned hosts into stars...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Mar
5
THE CRAWFORD-DAVIS DUEL FUELS FX'S 'FEUD: BETTE AND JOAN' By David Hinckley
 
 

When film icons Bette Davis and Joan Crawford made their only movie together, it generated good copy that they didn’t like each other. The question now is whether that's worth eight hours of our contemporary live...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Mar
5
TWO VERY DIFFERENT TIME TRIPS PREMIERE SAME NIGHT By David Hinckley
 
 
Fans of time-travel television have their choice of two very different trips Sunday...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Mar
4
A SHORT YET PROLIFIC AND POWERFUL LIFE STORY IS TOLD ON ‘PATSY CLINE: AMERICAN MASTERS’ By David Hinckley
 
 
More than half a century after her death, Patsy Cline remains a north star to women artists in country music and beyond...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Mar
2
EDI GATHEGI TALKS MATIAS SOLOMON AND ‘THE BLACKLIST: REDEMPTION’ By David Hinckley
 
 
Matias Solomon has already experienced resurrection, Edi Gathegi muses. So why not go for redemption as well?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Mar
1
‘WHEN WE RISE’ HIGHLIGHTS THE PROGRESS MADE BY THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY By David Hinckley
 
 
To many Americans outside the LGBTQ movement, “gay rights” blew in like a tornado out of nowhere...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Mar
1
WITH ‘CHICAGO JUSTICE,’ THE BRAND MAY HAVE REACHED THE BREAKING POINT By David Hinckley
 
 
Chicago Justice may mark the point at which we’re getting just a little too much Chicago...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
New From TVWW

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'
By Ed Bark
 
 
 
 
Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver
By Christy Slewinski
 
 
 
 
'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy
By Noel Holston
 
 
 
 

Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James
By Mike Hughes
 
 
 
 
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self
By Monique Nazareth
 
 
 
 
Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption
By David Hinckley