The central question with AMC’s new Feed the Beast may be whether exquisite images of upscale food are enough to balance a dark story that seems to have almost no path to a happy ending...

2016

Jun

WRITER OF 'FARGO' HINTS AT WHAT TO EXPECT IN SEASON 3 By David Hinckley

Well, don’t this just beat all: The third season of FX’s Fargo may attack the very way of life on which the movie and the hit TV series have been based...

2016

Jun

HOT IN TV BECAUSE OF 'FARGO,' HAWLEY NOW HOT IN BOOKS AND MOVIES By David Hinckley

Noah Hawley was already a successful writer before Fargo. Now he’s a really really successful writer. We’re talking books, TV shows and movies here...

2016

May

THE NEW 'ROOTS' STILL HAS PLENTY TO TEACH US By David Hinckley

Watching the new Roots, which would be one of the best TV things you could do this week, you’re reminded that in at least one important sense, it’s not about slavery at all. It’s about how individuals behave in a world where slavery happens to be an accepted institution...

2016

May

PERFECT FOR MEMORIAL DAY -- 'TED TALKS: WAR & PEACE' By David Hinckley

Our attention to Memorial Day gets spottier as more of our wars fall into grey areas, and PBS reflects that unease with TED Talks: War & Peace...

2016

May

GUY PEARCE STARS AS PRIVATE EYE IN ACORN'S 'JACK IRISH' By David Hinckley

If you’re ready for a short binge toward the end of the holiday weekend, you could do a lot worse than the Australian series Jack Irish, which has been brought to these shores by Acorn TV...

2016

May

‘AMERICAN MASTERS’ RECALLS THE COUNTRY MUSIC SUPERGROUP, THE HIGHWAYMEN By David Hinckley

The more you like country music, the more you’re apt to like "The Highwaymen: Friends Till The End," a PBS American Masters documentary...

2016

May

JESSI COLTER REMEMBERS THE MYTHS ABOUT THE 'OUTLAW' HIGHWAYMEN By David Hinckley

What Jessi Colter remembers about the Highwaymen is how sane and normal they so often were. How’s that for shattering a few myths?...

2016

May

TIME TO TURN OUT THE LIGHTS ON 'NASHVILLE,’ BUT IS THE PARTY REALLY OVER? By David Hinckley

You can make a decent argument that in four seasons, ABC’s Nashville has said pretty much all of what it has to say. But if Wednesday’s episode is indeed the end of the series, I’m still going to miss it...

2016

May

JASON PATRIC REPLACES MATT DILLON: TRYING TO SURVIVE IN ‘WAYWARD PINES’ By David Hinckley

New faces don’t mean things have gotten any kinder and gentler in the rustic town of Wayward Pines, Idaho...

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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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