PREMIERE SPECIAL: Mammas is the third entry in actress Isabella Rossellini’s daring and darling Green Porno series of shorts, in which she dresses up as various creatures to explain their natural behaviors. Anyone can launch a web series – but when the star of Blue Velvet does it, she uses an actual giant web, and dresses up as a spider. As a Mother’s Day treat, Sundance is showing these Mammas web shorts as a special, and it’s definitely something to watch with the whole

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May

ONCE UPON A TIME By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: Lost was the last ABC series to reset itself, time and time again, with its season finales — often resetting time and space in the process. Tonight's Season 2 finale of Once Upon a Time does just that, by once again redefining the show's central curse. And if the titles of the past two episodes are any indication, plus the appearance of Hook and the Lost Boys, we may be heading straight for Neverland.

2013

May

10 BUILDINGS THAT CHANGED AMERICA By David Bianculli

This special looks at 10 U.S. buildings whose architecture had a major impact on subsequent styles. For a full review, see Cold Light Reader by our own Eric Gould, who’s not only a TV critic, but an architect as well. Check local listings.

2013

May

MAD MEN By David Bianculli

Last week’s episode was a surprise game-changer, merging the two agencies so that Don and Peggy (Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss) will be working together once more. And here comes another game-changer, I suspect: Mad Men has been tiptoeing, none too subtly, towards one of the most major and tragic events of the summer of 1968: the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. It doesn’t necessarily happen tonight, but the events on Mad Men are so close, I’m betting it is. And it ought to chang

2013

May

FAMILY TREE By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This eight-part TV series from Christopher Guest has its own pitch, tone and pace – but if you’re a fan of Guest’s politely strange sense of humor (and I certainly am), this tale of a 30-year-old U.K. slacker (played by Chris O’Dowd) suddenly exploring his family tree is loaded with delights. For a full review, see Bianculli’s Blog.

2013

May

SMASH By David Bianculli

This series is building, surely but a bit too slowly, to the Season 2 finale, in which Bombshell is among the musicals competing for this year’s Tony Awards. Meanwhile, they writers are finding drama where they may – including a benefit concert in which Ivy (Megan Hilty), is asked to perform a number that’s intentionally, and provocatively, risqué.

2013

May

DOCTOR WHO By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: This is a very special episode, both behind and in front of the camera. Behind the scenes, it’s written by noted genre author Neil Gaiman, who already has contributed one impressive episode of Doctor Who. And in front of the camera, it makes room for the return of one of the most familiar and tenured foes in the Doctor’s universe: the Cybermen.

2013

May

VIVA LAS VEGAS By David Bianculli

Consider this 1964 musical a sex-symbol summit of the highest proportions. On one side, Elvis Presley, pairing on screen, for the first time, with a singing sensation as full of gyrations and sexual energy as himself. On the other side, Ann-Margret, about whom you could say, “Ditto.” Do the sparks fly? In the musical numbers, most definitely. The rest of the time? You decide.

2013

May

ORPHAN BLACK By David Bianculli

It’s a lot of fun to watch this series deepen its plot, and extend its cast of characters and its focus, each week. Tatiana Maslani is not only playing multiple parts on this show, but they’re constantly interacting, and even impersonating one another. In tonight’s episode, one of her clones announces to another that she’s been ordered to kill her – but the various incarnations are beginning to work together, not against one another. Send in the clones! No, wait &nd

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