DAVID BIANCULLI

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ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

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Contributors

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2018
Sep
21
 
 
Making sense of Netflix’s wildly careening Maniac is entirely up to you, but don’t worry, be happy that there’s something so adventurous to behold...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
21
 
 
Monk creator Andy Breckman clearly doesn’t mind repeating himself...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
19
 
 
We live in times when psyches are raw, friendships are being tested, and rubbing someone the wrong way is a clear and present danger...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
18
 
 
Monday’s 70th annual prime-time Emmys telecast is history. Or perhaps you thought you were watching Saturday Night Live...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
14
 
 
Sean Penn’s handful of small-screen credits have been inconsequential at best, save for perhaps a two-episode guest actor stint on Friends back in 2001. But now here he comes in a big way...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
14
 
 
Either then or certainly not now, it’s doubtful anyone ever said this about Leslie Moonves: “He is truly the all-American boy, not only on-camera but off-camera..."...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
14
 
 
Given the dumb, insensitive things he’s said of late, the easy way out is to say that Netflix’s Norm Macdonald Has a Show stars a boob who shouldn’t be allowed to have one. Then again, here’s a guy who’s never really expressed himself cogently...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
9
 
 
This has been a big year for Fred Rogers, who’s been extolled in a first-rate documentary film and is now reprised in fragile form via Jim Carrey as Mr. Pickles...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
9
 
 
The first new fall series from a Big Four broadcasting network is broad, loud, stereotypical and affixed with a howling laugh track. What were you thinking, Fox?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Sep
4
 
 
It’s Purge night in America. Do you know where your weapons are? Or would you rather sacrifice yourself for a cult leader’s visions of greater glory?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

Ed Bark

Since 2006, Ed Bark's local and national TV stories and observations have been showcased on his pioneering website, www.unclebarky.com.  For 26 years before that, he was TV critic for the Dallas Morning News. He's a past president of the Television Critics Association, and for seven years served on the national Peabody Awards board.

 
 
 
 

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