Hyper-condensed satire is the bedrock on which The Simpsons is built, and this clip from the upcoming episode looking at the presidential benchmark of the first 100 days in office is no exception... the TV news has Ivanka wearing new wardrobe and accessories on sale as she takes her appointed seat on the Supreme Court. And, there’s a new explanation for the Commander-in-Chief’s hairstyle...

2017

Apr

CATASTROPHE By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: It’s Season 3 for Sharon and Ron, the very unlikely couple played by Sharon Horgan and Ron Delaney on this sharp-witted Amazon comedy series. When they started as a “couple,” they were a weekend hookup that went a different way after she became pregnant. Now, to begin the new season, they now have two kids, and these new episodes will include infidelity, addiction, unemployment, and more. And supporting player Carrie Fisher, who finished filming this season of

2017

Apr

RODNEY KING By David Bianculli

TELEMOVIE PREMIERE: Actor Roger Guenveur Smith has known Spike Lee a long time – the former appeared in the latter’s Do the Right Thing. But as an actor and writer, Smith also has teamed with Lee, on a Peabody-winning one-man telemovie about Huey P. Newton. With Rodney King, he and Lee reteam for another one-man show. It’s the filmed record of a stage performance, held at an outdoor theater in front of an audience, in which Smith tells the story of the 1991 police beating of Ro

2017

Apr

DEAR WHITE PEOPLE By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Justin Simien’s 2014 movie of the same name is the inspiration for this new Netflix spinoff, and claims him as an executive producer, and occasional writer and director, as well. The narration is provided by Giancarlo Esposito, who’s moonlighting from duties as the returning Gus Fring on AMC’s Better Call Saul. But here, he’s only heard, not seen, as each installment of Dear White People focuses mostly on a different core character. Central to the opening

2017

Apr

CASTING JONBENET By David Bianculli

This is not a recommendation. Director Kitty Green presents this nonfiction film that’s technically a documentary, but also, arguably, an unabashed exploitation film. (What to call it? A docutation? An exploitmentary?) It takes the December 1996 murder case of young JonBenet Ramsey and revisits it from several directions, purportedly by planning and casting a film on the Ramsey case, with the parts filled by local residents of the same Boulder, CO community where the young girl lived and d

2017

Apr

LET IT FALL: LOS ANGELES 1982-1992 By David Bianculli

John Ridley directs this ABC documentary, keyed to the 25th anniversary of the uprising following the verdict in the Rodney King case, and examining the decade of racial acts and confrontations that led up to the Aug. 29, 1992 riots.

2017

Apr

REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

This week’s guest list includes Sen. Elizabeth Warren and longtime political activist (and actor and director) Rob Reiner, as well as nuclear physicist Ernest Moniz.

2017

Apr

‘THE CIRCUS’ HAS MOVED WITH THE TIMES By Alex Strachan

The original idea was a one-off, or at least that was the intention at the time...

2017

Apr

"A NOVEL OF TELEVISION AND MURDER:" TRACKING BACK TO BILL O'REILLY'S VERY FIRST BOOK, WHICH HE PUMPED WITH TELLING BOMBAST By Ed Bark

Note to readers: All of the trademark bombast and hyperbole were in place when Bill O’Reilly wrote his very first book in 1998. This one was a serial killer novel titled Those Who Trespass...

2017

Apr

THE BIG BANG THEORY By David Bianculli

Part of the success of The Big Bang Theory is due to its fidelity to itself. It pays attention to its characters, and their interactions, and even their pasts, and adjusts accordingly. Penny (Kaley Cuoco) began the series as an airheaded neighbor, a bubbly blonde object of unattainable desire. But she quickly deepened as a character, showing sides of herself as both a frustrated wannabe actress and a sarcastic have-to-work waitress. Her on-again, off-again mating dance with neighbor Leonard (Joh

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