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2017
May
6
‘BATMAN & BILL’ TELLS THE STORY OF THE BATTLING CREATORS OF THE CAPED CRUSADER By David Hinckley
 
 
Hulu’s new documentary Batman & Bill should engage even the casual comic book fan because, like all the best Batman capers, it has a solid villain...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
May
4
HAS ‘BETTER CALL SAUL’ TAKEN A TURN FOR THE DARK? By David Hinckley
 
 
One of the many impressive achievements of Better Call Saul, AMC’s semi-prequel to the late Breaking Bad, is that it has created a strong identity of its own by establishing a very different tone from the original...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
May
2
PBS' 'VICTORIAN SLUM HOUSE' MORE LIKE HISTORIC 'SURVIVOR' By David Hinckley
 
 
Victorian Slum House might be best called a hybrid between a PBS documentary and the PBS version of reality television...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
30
WHERE SEASON 3 OF ‘AMERICAN CRIME’ WILL END IS ANYBODY’S GUESS By David Hinckley
 
 
[Warning: contains possible spoilers from previously aired episodes.] ABC’s American Crime has added another superlative to its resume this spring...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
26
SUBJUGATION AND TOTALITARIANISM IN THE NAME OF RELIGION WITH ‘THE HANDMAID’S TALE’ By David Hinckley
 
 
If you can stand one more trip into the dystopian future, The Handmaid’s Tale offers a disturbing and powerful voyage...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
25
‘GREAT NEWS’ IS THE SAME JOKE OVER AND OVER AGAIN. MAYBE By David Hinckley
 
 
There are two ways to look at NBC’s new sitcom Great News...The first is that it’s Groundhog Day...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
24
‘DOMINION CREEK’ CAPTURES THE IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE OF THE OLD AMERICAN WEST By David Hinckley
 
 
Have a good chuckle if you will, lads and lassies, at the idea of an Irish Western...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
23
ON THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE L.A. RIOTS, SEVERAL PROGRAMS EXAMINE WHAT WENT WRONG By David Hinckley
 
 
A quarter century after the Rodney King verdict sent Los Angeles up in flames, fully sorting out that tragedy remains a job above the pay grade of mortals...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
21
HARRY ‘BOSCH’ IS BACK SOLVING CRIMES By David Hinckley
 
 
A lot of troubled TV cops start to soften a little around the third season. Not Harry Bosch...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
20
HISHAM TAWFIQ ON PLAYING THE QUIET TOUGH GUY ON ‘THE BLACKLIST’ By David Hinckley
 
 
Hisham Tawfiq admits he didn’t originally want his bodyguard character Dembe Zuma on The Blacklist to be the strong, silent type...

 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

David Hinckley

David Hinckley first grasped the power of television when, at the age of 8, he bullied his parents into buying a basset hound like Cleo on The People’s Choice. He named her Cleo. Somewhat more recently, he worked for 35 years at The New York Daily News, the last seven covering television.
 
 
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'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
 
 
 
 

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