Cheerleaders often serve as incidental characters in TV and film dramas. They’re the girlfriends or the mean girls or, in the slasher film world, convenient prey for deranged serial killers...

2019

Dec

FOR A LITTLE EASILY DIGESTIBLE TV MORSEL, TRY ‘MURDOCH MYSTERIES’ By David Hinckley

Television on Christmas Day doesn’t tend to be the focal point it can become on Thanksgiving when there are parades and dog shows and football games...

2019

Dec

'THE WITCHER' FITS THE GRIM FANTASY MOLD By David Hinckley

Someday someone is going to explain to me why fantasy kingdoms always seem to be located in cold, dark, bleak medieval woodlands teeming with monsters...

2019

Dec

A VERSION OF 'A CHRISTMAS CAROL' THAT IS DARK AND GRITTY WITH A VILE BUT COMPELLING SCROOGE IN GUY PEARCE By David Hinckley

FX's new production of A Christmas Carol mines all the darkness with which author Charles Dickens infused the original and then adds more of its own...

2019

Dec

A MORE COLORFUL DOG SHOW WITH THE HBO SPECIAL 'WELL GROOMED' By David Hinckley

Every year after the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, my cousin Dianne and I review the results. We like it more when big old shaggy dogs win, like Josh the Newfoundland...

2019

Dec

A COMEDY ICON: 'MEL BROOKS UNWRAPPED' By David Hinckley

You see the words "Mel Brooks" on a TV show, and you know that whatever you get, it's going to be funny...

2019

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SEASON 4 OF 'THE HEART GUY' ARRIVES ON ACORN By David Hinckley

Hugh Knight has been kicked out of a hospital where he was a nationally renowned surgeon and forced to relocate to a backwater town where he must demonstrate that he has rehabilitated himself...

2019

Dec

HBO PRESENTS THE TOUCHING 'MOONLIGHT SONATA: DEAFNESS IN THREE MOVEMENTS' By David Hinckley

Moonlight Sonata uses that Beethoven composition to propel the story of Jonas Brodsky, a young present-day piano player who lost his hearing before he was old enough to start school...

2019

Dec

THE CHALLENGING LIFE OF A 'WORK IN PROGRESS' By David Hinckley

You're pouring out all your desperation to your therapist. Your life's a wreck, and you feel like you have no connections or purpose...

2019

Dec

SEASON 3 OF 'THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL' IS MAGNIFICENT By David Hinckley

If you've watched the first two seasons of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, recommending that you watch the third season is like recommending that if you have a choice of Oreos, you go for the double-stuffed. There's nothing to think about, really...

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