We all speculate from time to time about what cities like New York, Tokyo, London, and Miami will look like in the future. This produces a wide range of dreams and visions, among which we usually find a consensus on at least one point: We don’t want them to look like Atlantis...

2018

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'LOST TAPES: THE CLINTON IMPEACHMENT' REMINDS US EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN By David Hinckley

Lest anyone think Smithsonian’s new Lost Tapes special on the impeachment of President Bill Clinton is just an exercise in uncomfortable nostalgia, the documentary opens with an old news clip of Clinton at a podium saying he will “make America great again.”...

2018

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'RAY DONOVAN' MOVES TO NY AND RETURNS STRONG By David Hinckley

Partway through the first episode in Season 6 of Ray Donovan, Liev Schreiber’s Ray – that’s Ray from the South Boston Donovans – walks into a bar wearing a Yankees cap. That, my friend, is how a TV show signals a reset...

2018

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CHRISTIAN BRASSINGTON ON THE REV. OSBORNE WHITWORTH ON 'POLDARK' By David Hinckley

Christian Brassington has the best of both worlds: He gets all the fun of playing a really sleazy character on television yet in real life he doesn’t get stopped on the street by viewers who want to scold him about it...

2018

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'LEGACIES' ARRIVES ON THE CW By David Hinckley

Apparently, it isn’t only in the shadowy darkness that vampires live forever...

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THE LATEST THRILLER FROM NETFLIX, 'THE BODYGUARD,' IS AN AMBITIOUS, WORTHWHILE WATCH By David Hinckley

The Bodyguard, a TV series not to be confused with the Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner movie, opens with British policeman David Budd trying to talk a woman out of detonating the suicide vest into which her husband has strapped her...

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THE WINNER OF 'THE GREAT AMERICAN READ' IS REVEALED By David Hinckley

In real life, Elizabeth Bennett of Pride and Prejudice probably wouldn’t stand a chance in a faceoff with Harry Potter...

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IF YOU'D LIKE A GHOSTLY MYSTERY WITHOUT THE BLOODSHED, WATCH 'THE WOMAN IN WHITE' By David Hinckley

At a time when the supernatural on television tends to turn graphically violent, the BBC and PBS deliver something closer to intrigue bordering on elegance in the classic quasi-ghost story The Woman in White...

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NETFLIX BRINGS BACK THE EXCITEMENT OF 'MARVEL'S DAREDEVIL' By David Hinckley

Marvel’s Daredevil did the right thing with its alpha villain back in Season 1. It didn’t kill him. It just locked him up...

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'THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT' IS OK By David Hinckley

There’s no reason Jewish families should be the only ones featured in zany, exasperating, nostalgic and ultimately heartwarming sitcoms...

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