There are no accidents in the tragicomic events that shape each season of FX’s Fargo, and it’s probably also no accident that each year the show delivers a female star off whom we cannot take our eyes...

2017

Apr

EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE IN THE FACE OF UNIMAGINABLE HORROR – THE STORY OF THE ‘HOLOCAUST ESCAPE TUNNEL’ By David Hinckley

One of the great frustrations in discussing the Holocaust is that the numbers quickly become so large they often begin to feel abstract...

2017

Apr

CREATOR NOAH HAWLEY ON THE NEW SEASON OF ‘FARGO’ By David Hinckley

If hanging the new season of Fargo on the fiscal crisis of 2008 doesn’t sound all that sexy, creator Noah Hawley says the new edition really gets back to something more timeless and troubling. “It’s about what people will do for money...”...

2017

Apr

‘THE WHITE PRINCESS’ OFFERS A SOLID IF FLAWED TALE By David Hinckley

The new Starz series The White Princess takes the real-life union between England’s King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York and makes it more, you know, interesting...

2017

Apr

SHOWTIME’S ‘GUERRILLA’ EXPLORES SEVENTIES BLACK RADICALISM THROUGH A UNIVERSAL LENS By David Hinckley

Showtime’s new limited series Guerrilla tells an important story imperfectly...

2017

Apr

‘FORTITUDE’ HAS A FAMILIAR, ECCENTRIC RING TO IT By David Hinckley

It would be presumptuous yet not totally untrue to say Amazon’s Fortitude resembles Fargo without the laughs...

2017

Apr

WAR IS COMING By David Hinckley

The Vietnam War, the 10-part, 18-hour documentary series from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, has just gotten its deployment orders from PBS...

2017

Apr

STELLA MAEVE ON HER ‘THE MAGICIANS’ CHARACTER By David Hinckley

You don’t have to believe in magic to star in Syfy’s The Magicians, but it’s worked out pretty well for Stella Maeve...

2017

Apr

‘THE GREAT WAR’ RAISES THE IDEA OF LEARNING FROM OUR MISTAKES By David Hinckley

Even given the monumental stupidity of war in general, World War I was particularly inexplicable. More than 15 million lives were lost in a war that was essentially over nothing...

2017

Apr

‘BETTER CALL SAUL’ COASTS BACK IN FOR US TO ENJOY By David Hinckley

Better Call Saul returns with a slow burn. It also brings back Gus Fring, which may energize fans more than the opening pace of the story...

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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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