TNT’s long-awaited adaptation of Caleb Carr’s The Alienist captures some of the book’s allure. It also illustrates why the TV version took so many years to develop...

2018

Jan

WRITER AND SHOWRUNNER ED SOLOMON ON THE STORYTELLING APPROACH OF 'MOSAIC' By David Hinckley

HBO’s new Sharon Stone crime drama Mosaic poses a disturbing notion about a broader issue of life: that when we try to reassure or comfort someone by saying “I understand,” we’re almost certainly lying...

2018

Jan

THE THEORY OF ALTERNATE REALITIES ON 'COUNTERPART' By David Hinckley

The opening episode of the tense new Starz sci-fi drama Counterpart left me undecided for a long time, I must admit, on whether I wanted to stick around and figure it out...

2018

Jan

FOX'S 'THE RESIDENT' HAS POTENTIAL DESPITE ITS MANY AILMENTS By David Hinckley

Contrary to the promotion for Fox’s new medical drama The Resident, we’ve seen this patient before...

2018

Jan

THE STUNNING WORLD OF 'BLUE PLANET II' By David Hinckley

BBC America balances a growing cautionary tale with sheer majestic wonder when its long-awaited Planet Earth: Blue Planet II premieres Saturday...

2018

Jan

THE LASTING LEGACY OF 'LORRAINE HANSBERRY: SIGHTED EYES/FEELING HEART' By David Hinckley

J. Edgar Hoover’s team had it right. Lorraine Hansberry was a commie...they just got one part wrong: Hansberry wasn’t trying to subvert America. She was trying to make it better...

2018

Jan

THE MAN WHO KEPT 'THE SECRET OF TUXEDO PARK' By David Hinckley

If it takes a village to raise a child, it also took a village to win World War II, and it’s kind of cool how, seven decades later, more villagers keep surfacing...

2018

Jan

THE ELECTRICITY OF 'BLACK LIGHTNING' ON THE CW By David Hinckley

The fiercest competition in the superhero game these days may be which one is the most reluctant to play, and Black Lightning’s return catapults him right to the head of that hand-wringing class...

2018

Jan

JAMES BALDWIN AND THE STORY OF RACE RELATIONS IN AMERICA WITH 'I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO' By David Hinckley

James Baldwin died before he could finish what he had to say to America. I Am Not Your Negro, starting with its title, picks up where he left off...

2018

Jan

THE STRENGTH OF OUR TROOPS WITH 'CHAIN OF COMMAND' By David Hinckley

National Geographic takes a dramatic gamble, and it pays off in Chain of Command, a new eight-part series based on America’s military and intelligence flow chart for combatting worldwide insurgency...

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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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