Nashville is tuning up for its final chorus. Prime-time’s best country music soap launches its last eight episodes Thursday at 9 p.m. ET on CMT, which gave the show two additional and welcome years after its four-season run on ABC...

2018

Jun

'POSE' OFFERS AN HONEST AND ELEGANT LOOK INTO THE 1980S LGBTQ COMMUNITY By David Hinckley

One of the oddest side effects of our increasingly fragmented society is that almost everyone sometimes gets to feel like an outsider. So it’s worth reminding ourselves that some folks are way more outside than others...

2018

Jun

AMC'S 'DIETLAND' IS A DIFFERENT TREAT WITH MANY FLAVORS By David Hinckley

AMC’s new series Dietland achieves the remarkable feat of not feeling like anything else currently on television. Like a diet itself, it feels valuable while sometimes seeming hard to quantify, shape and digest...

2018

May

'THE AMERICANS' FINALE MAY SURPRISE, MAY DISAPPOINT By David Hinckley

The Americans doesn’t end the way most fans have probably been thinking it would end... No spoilers here, except to say many viewers may be surprised by who’s left standing at the end. And where...

2018

May

AN UNVARNISHED LOOK AT AMERICANS 'HUNTING ISIS' By David Hinckley

When the History Channel gets serious, it can still offer solid stories like its new Hunting ISIS...

2018

May

'FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS' ON HBO: AN APPRECIATIVE AND STRAIGHTFORWARD DOCUMENTARY ABOUT JOHN MCCAIN By David Hinckley

For Whom the Bell Tolls, HBO’s documentary on Sen. John McCain, plays like the kind of tribute that, at the risk of sounding cold, ordinarily surfaces after the subject has died...

2018

May

SHOWTIME'S 'THE FOURTH ESTATE' SHOWS NEWS AND SUBJECTS IN A VOLATILE AGE By David Hinckley

One of the many contradictions of unaffiliated journalism is that a troubling message can be good news for the messenger. Showtime’s new documentary series The Fourth Estate makes that point explicitly and implicitly...

2018

May

'THE TALE' IS A DISTURBING TRUE STORY THAT IS IMPORTANT VIEWING By David Hinckley

When a show is slotted for 10 o’clock Saturday night on a holiday weekend, it’s usually a good indication someone at the network thinks it’s going to be a hard watch...

2018

May

'THE SPLIT' ARRIVES ON SUNDANCE By David Hinckley

The women in the Defoe family excel at breaking things up. Of course, they do. They’re high-end London divorce lawyers...

2018

May

CLINT WALKER MAY 30, 1927 – MAY 21, 2018 By David Hinckley

In the music game, Clint Walker would have been what we call a one-hit wonder...

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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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