Homeland wraps up its sixth season Sunday and as usual, the wrapping will have some loose ends hanging out. “I think it’s very fair to say everything won’t be resolved,” says producer Lesli Linka Glatter, who directed Sunday’s season finale...

2017

Apr

WITH ‘THE SON,’ AMC HEADS DOWN A DARK WESTERN ROAD By David Hinckley

The Son keeps AMC in the business of historic American heartland epics with sweeping moral implications...

2017

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‘AMERICAN PLAYBOY’ IS AN AUTHORIZED LOOK AT THE MAN BEHIND THE MAGAZINE By David Hinckley

Whether you think Playboy magazine liberated America from its puritanical shackles or sent America spiraling into a Godless moral hell, you gotta admit it changed the game...

2017

Apr

SWEDISH IMPORT 'JORDSKOTT' IS A WORTHY MASH-UP By David Hinckley

To the casual viewer who just likes a good tense police mystery drama, the Swedish series Jordskott seems to be exactly that right up until the moment we suddenly realize it’s also a sci-fi horror story...

2017

Apr

THE REASONS WHY ’13 REASONS WHY’ HAS IMPORTANT THINGS TO SAY By David Hinckley

Watching 13 hours about a teenage girl killing herself may not sound like the most enticing of the many choices on television these days. Trouble is, suicide is a choice too many real-life teenagers make...

2017

Apr

‘ARCHER’ RETURNS ON A NEW NETWORK AND IN A NEW DECADE By David Hinckley

Sterling Archer meets Humphrey Bogart this season, and it’s about time. Archer, the title character in television’s finest animated detective dramedy, ended last season in a coma...

2017

Apr

THE TENSION AND TURMOIL OF ‘PRISON BREAK’ IS BACK ON FOX By David Hinckley

If you imagine life in the Middle Ages was short, ugly and brutish, there’s a corner of television today that doesn’t portray it much differently. Take the return of Prison Break on Fox at 9 p.m. ET Tuesday...

2017

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THE FUN UNDEAD RETURN ON ‘IZOMBIE’ By David Hinckley

Once upon a time, the undead on iZombie were just misunderstood. Now someone wants to kill them. That may sound a little weird, the undead already being dead and all...

2017

Apr

THE AFTERMATH OF THE MASS SHOOTING AT SANDY HOOK IS ADDRESSED ON PBS’ ‘NEWTOWN’ By David Hinckley

When Kim Snyder decided to make a documentary on the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., she didn’t want simply to plunge back into the darkness...

2017

Apr

PBS’S ‘HOME FIRES’ IS BEING EXTINGUISHED AFTER THIS SEASON By David Hinckley

The only bad thing about PBS’s Home Fires is that, alas, its second season will be its last...

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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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