SEASON FINALE: Tonight is the Season 2 finale of Fargo, which means it’s the concluding episode of this particularly brutal, and entertaining, story line. (And bizarre, thanks to the bizarrely unexpected element during last week's motel shootout.) This year, Fargo has climbed to the top tier of many TV critics’ end-of-year Top 10 lists – including mine, which I’ll discussing on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross the last week of the year.

2015

Dec

'FARGO' SEASON TWO A TRIUMPH AND A MYSTERY By David Hinckley

The best new drama of the fall season, year two of FX’s Fargo, wraps up Monday (10 p.m. ET) with many fates still on the table...

2015

Dec

ED BARK'S TOP 10 FOR 2015 IS NO EASY LIST By Ed Bark

It’s the time for year-end lists. And for the fourth time, HitFix.com has surveyed 53 TV critics on their choices for the Top 10 overall and new TV series of 2015... This is an increasingly vexing task, given the wealth of drama and comedy series on broadcast, cable and streaming services...

2015

Dec

MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET By David Bianculli

It’s lovely watching Edmund Gwenn slip into the role, and big red suit, of Kris Kringle in this 1947 holiday classic. It’s equally heartwarming to see little Natalie Wood, as a child actress here, playing the role of the girl who believes that the department store Santa at Macy’s is indeed the genuine article. Repeats at 9:15 p.m. ET.

2015

Dec

THE SIMPSONS By David Bianculli

Tonight’s new episode takes on the movie Boyhood by animating the story of Bart Simpson as he might progress if, like the boy in Boyhood, he actually aged. And why not? Bart’s been around long enough, in terms of years, to have reached not only “Barthood” – the title of this episode – but adulthood as well. And pay special attention to the couch gag this week: Like the rest of this episode, it’s a loving nod to director Richard Linklater, director of Boy

2015

Dec

IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE By David Bianculli

Because NBC Universal owns the TV rights to this 1946 holiday classic, it can be televised, these days, only on NBC and its sister networks. That’s why NBC already has shown it once -- and why USA Network, one of NBC’s cable sister stations, is showing it tonight.

2015

Dec

THE GOOD WIFE By David Bianculli

There are people around Alicia who aren’t very happy with her choices of late – either the cases she’s taking or the man with whom she’s working, quite closely. Tonight, the forces around the campaign try to make some adjustments – but, as regular viewers of this series know full well, Alicia doesn’t “adjust” easily.

2015

Dec

HOMELAND By David Bianculli

Rupert Friend’s Peter Quinn didn’t die after all, which is a fate taken by several seemingly ill-fated regular characters on TV this fall. But that doesn’t mean Quinn is out of the woods. Not when Carrie, in search of critical information, decides to pull him out of his medically induced coma.

2015

Dec

ROBOT CHICKEN CHRISTMAS SPECIAL: X-MAS UNITED By David Bianculli

In this new Robot Chicken holiday special, the Robot Chicken Nerd heads to the North Pole. His encounter with Santa Claus, however, is anything but a ho-ho-ho laughing matter. And what happens to poor Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is something you won’t soon forget. But like the rest of the crazy humor in this long-running Adult Swim franchise, it’s well worth a look.

2015

Dec

LINDA ELLERBEE'S FINALE: A BEMUSED 'HELLO, I MUST BE GOING' By David Hinckley

TV news is losing one of its coolest people. Linda Ellerbee, who has worked some of the more remote and interesting corners of the business for the last half century, is packing it in with a final edition of her Nick News for kids...

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