Tonight’s episode is called “Breakout Year,” and tries to position Hank Azaria’s Brockmire for a post-meltdown comeback. The internet is what brought him down – and social media, and some unexpected fan bases, may be just the thing to propel him back up.

2017

Apr

HULU'S VERSION OF ‘THE HANDMAID'S TALE’ CAN'T HELP BUT BE A CLARION CALL 32 YEARS AFTER ITS FIRST INCARNATION By Ed Bark

It’s become all too easy, and oftentimes preachy, to filter many a new or prominent returning TV series through the prism of Donald Trump’s divisive presidency...

2017

Apr

TACKLING EINSTEIN AND KEEPING HIM WITHIN GRASP IN NATIONAL GEO'S ‘GENIUS’ By Ed Bark

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to quickly divine both the production values and the heightened characterizations in the National Geographic channel’s humanizing of Albert Einstein...

2017

Apr

NBC'S ‘GREAT NEWS’ IS EVEN BETTER NEWS FOR AGELESS ANDREA MARTIN By Ed Bark

Many of the usual suspects are present and accounted for in this latest sitcom about a dysfunctional TV newsroom...

2017

Apr

‘GREAT NEWS’ IS THE SAME JOKE OVER AND OVER AGAIN. MAYBE By David Hinckley

There are two ways to look at NBC’s new sitcom Great News...The first is that it’s Groundhog Day...

2017

Apr

LONG LAUGHS By Eric Gould

Andrea Martin has a new NBC series, Great News, and it’s no surprise that after starting her comedy career, ahem, 40 years ago on Canada’s SCTV, (Second City Television) her physical comedy has lasting star power... her work on the landmark SCTV sketch comedy series with Martin Short, Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara ahem, 40 years ago, still has legs...

2017

Apr

THE VOICE By David Bianculli

The Voice tried something new last night – adding a fifth chair to its live, two-hour Top 10 performance show, to let a guest mentor chime in with after-performance reactions. The inaugural mentor for this experiment was Shania Twain, who was very nice, and always had positive things to say. She did not, however, say them quickly enough, or originally enough, to warrant all the air time she gobbled up. But with the right mentor, this might prove to be another welcome addition. On tonight&r

2017

Apr

IZOMBIE By David Bianculli

This ought to be perfect for a CW series. In tonight’s episode, Liv (Rose McIver), as always, eats the brains, and temporarily absorbs the memories and personality, of a murder victim, in order to help solve the crime. But this week’s victim is so CW-ready. The victim is, or was, a young woman prone to spreading stories. In other words, a gossip girl.

2017

Apr

GENIUS: ALBERT EINSTEIN By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: In AMC’s The Son, a young actor and a veteran one share the same role, portraying the identical character at different times in his life. That’s the same approach used in this new National Geographic series, only the subject, and protagonist, in question is Albert Einstein. As a young man, he’s played by Johnny Flynn. Later in life, he’s played by Geoffrey Rush, who played a different type of genius, a musical one, in the 1996 movie Shine. For a full revi

2017

Apr

MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. By David Bianculli

Maybe it’s only me, but I always am fascinated whenever one of the Star Trek series visits an alternate reality, in which the crew members are portrayed as slightly twisted doppelgangers. This current story line on Marvels’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is doing the same thing – and allowing several of its cast members to play severely against type. And to play severely, period, as in the former android now known as Lady Hydra.

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