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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2017
Apr
20
FARGO By David Bianculli
 
 
With this week’s first taste of Season 3 of FX’s Fargo, Noah Hawley has now made three delectable variations on the Coen Brothers’ original theme. But tonight on Starz, you can revisit their 1996 original, starring Frances McDormand as a Minnesota police chief investigating a particularly bizarre and brutal murder case. Hawley’s TV miniseries versions of Fargo have been superb… but the original film, co-starring William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare, wa
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
19
FX'S 'FARGO' DOES A SLOWER BURN IN EARLY STAGES OF SEASON 3 By Ed Bark
 
 
The Sharknado-like fish storm from Season 1 of Fargo and Season 2’s eventually pivotal flying saucers might be slightly less swervy than the outlandish/cartoonish first on-camera killing in Season 3’s extended opening episode...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
19
‘FARGO’ RETURNS FOR SEASON 3 WITH EWAN MCGREGOR. AND EWAN MCGREGOR By David Hinckley
 
 
There are no accidents in the tragicomic events that shape each season of FX’s Fargo, and it’s probably also no accident that each year the show delivers a female star off whom we cannot take our eyes...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
19
NOVA: "HOLOCAUST ESCAPE TUNNEL" By David Bianculli
 
 
This documentary is about the recently discovered escape tunnel, dug by Jewish prisoners scheduled for execution by Nazis, in the Lithuanian city of Vilna. Consider it, if you must (but you shouldn’t), the site of one of those recently cited “Holocaust centers.” Check local listings. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
19
DESIGNATED SURVIVOR By David Bianculli
 
 
In tonight’s episode, President Tom Kirkman (Kiefer Sutherland) has to force his hand to get his way assembling a new U.S. Supreme Court. Sound familiar?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
19
FARGO By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This is Season 3 for Noah Hawley’s reimagining of the Coen Brothers Fargo ethos – the third time he’s started from scratch and introduced a new setting, plot, and cast of characters. And for the third time, based on tonight’s kickoff episode, he’s struck gold yet again. Ewan McGregor, in a dual role as very different brothers Emmit and Ray Stussy, is amazingly good, twice. And Mary Elizabeth Winstead, as Ray’s ex-con girlfriend and aspiring co
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
19
ARCHER By David Bianculli
 
 
The film noir coma dream by Archer (J. Jon Benjamin) continues, with Archer and all his colleagues trapped in an alternate reality with different settings and identities. Hey, wait a second… except for the film noir part, isn’t that exactly what’s going on right now on ABC’s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.? Except that on that show, the hero isn’t driving around with a beautiful redhead and a dead body.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
19
BROCKMIRE By David Bianculli
 
 
In the premiere episode of this very funny new IFC series, Hank Azaria’s Brockmire was introduced in a flashback meltdown, having just discovered his wife having extramarital sex, then railing about it on the baseball public address system where he was a booth announcer. His wife, Lucy, had decided to adopt a very “free” lifestyle – and after they split up, Brockmire had spent the better part of a decade overseas and on a bender. But now he’s back, working at a mino
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
19
EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE IN THE FACE OF UNIMAGINABLE HORROR – THE STORY OF THE ‘HOLOCAUST ESCAPE TUNNEL’ By David Hinckley
 
 
One of the great frustrations in discussing the Holocaust is that the numbers quickly become so large they often begin to feel abstract...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
19
FOX NEWS CHANNEL OFFICIALLY CUTS TIES WITH BILL O'REILLY (UPDATED) By Ed Bark
 
 
The Murdoch brothers and their father have officially performed last rites on Bill O’Reilly and his long-standing hit Fox News Channel show, The O’Reilly Factor...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
New From TVWW

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'
By Ed Bark
 
 
 
 
Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver
By Christy Slewinski
 
 
 
 
'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy
By Noel Holston
 
 
 
 

Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James
By Mike Hughes
 
 
 
 
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self
By Monique Nazareth
 
 
 
 
Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption
By David Hinckley