If Republicans and Democrats could get along half as well as the multiple dramatic genres mashed up in Marvel’s Runaways, we’d have bipartisan heaven...

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A CLOSER EXAMINATION OF THE FREDDIE GRAY CASE WITH ‘BALTIMORE RISING’ ON HBO By David Hinckley

Baltimore Rising finds little rays of optimism and hope in the case of Freddie Gray, a place where few people would even think to look...

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'BIG HERO 6' COMES TO TV AND BRINGS SCIENCE ALONG WITH IT By David Hinckley

The Big Hero 6 team will add a seventh hero, in a way, when it moves from theaters to television. That seventh hero, say executive producers Mark McCorkle and Bob Schooley, would be science...

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‘COLD BLOODED’ REEXAMINES THE CLUTTER FAMILY MURDERS AND THE NEARLY-FORGOTTEN VICTIMS THEMSELVES By David Hinckley

Call it the last and cruelest indignity: becoming a bit player in your own murder...

2017

Nov

MRS. PATMORE AND DAISY VISIT ‘DOWNTON ABBEY: THE EXHIBITION’ IN NEW YORK CITY By David Hinckley

Trust the downstairs people to know where the secrets were hidden in Downton Abbey...

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NEW ‘LOVE, LIES & RECORDS’ TAKES DRAMA ABOVE SOAP By David Hinckley

If you like This Is Us, you might take a fancy to the import series Love, Lies & Records...

2017

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EGG TIMERS ARE ALWAYS RUNNING FOR MAIN CHARACTERS By David Hinckley

After Wednesday night’s Blacklist, it just got a little harder to argue that prime-time TV isn’t becoming Game of Thrones... [Spoiler Alert ahead for The Blacklist fans...]

2017

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NETLIX'S 'THE PUNISHER': ONE PART ANTIHERO, ONE PART VIGILANTE By David Hinckley

The latest video incarnation of The Punisher reconfirms that underneath a few recognizable Marvel trappings and nuances, what we really still have here is Charles Bronson...

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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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