MINISERIES PREMIERE: Part 1 of 3. This three-part American History documentary looks back 100 years and just beyond, to America’s initially reluctant involvement in what eventually came to be known as World War I. Before there was a WWII, this global conflict was called “The Great War.” Most people know that. What you may not know, in this study focusing largely on the U.S. arguments for and against military intervention at the time, how freakishly similar our current events ar

2017

Apr

BATES MOTEL By David Bianculli

This series, this season, has become one of the year’s most delightful surprises, as it closes in on its finale, and its merging with the story told in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 classic movie Psycho. Last week, Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore) and his domineering mother Norma (Vera Farmiga) finally confronted each other about the elephant in the room, and it was a dead elephant. Viewers know she’s dead, and exists now only as a very active figment of her son’s imagination &n

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Apr

BETTER CALL SAUL By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Season 3 of Better Call Saul begins right where Season 2 left off, with Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk), eventually to adopt the slimy persona of shifty attorney Saul Goodman, confessing to his brother Chuck (Michael McKean) that he doctored some paperwork, and committed a felony, to take some legal business away from his brother. Chuck is out for revenge – and so, in other scenes, is Mike Ehrmentraut, the formidable ex-cop played by Jonathan Banks. Mike’s quest takes hi

2017

Apr

ANGIE TRIBECA By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This Season 3 start of Angie Tribeca returns Rashida Jones to the deadpan role of dedicated detective Angie Tribeca, who’s surrounded by clues yet, like her colleagues, perpetually clueless. Angie Tribeca is guilty of serving up the most groan-inducing puns and outrageous sight gags since the days of Police Squad! and the classic Mel Brooks TV sitcoms, including Get Smart. And that’s meant not as a complaint, but as the highest of compliments. There aren’t many

2017

Apr

'HOMELAND' SEASON SIX HAS TRACKED REAL EVENTS, FAKE NEWS By David Hinckley

Homeland wraps up its sixth season Sunday and as usual, the wrapping will have some loose ends hanging out. “I think it’s very fair to say everything won’t be resolved,” says producer Lesli Linka Glatter, who directed Sunday’s season finale...

2017

Apr

THE CIRCUS: INSIDE THE BIGGEST STORY ON EARTH By David Bianculli

In last week’s fast-moving installment, this series took the temperature of the Trump base with a whirlwind tour of five states in as many days, asking Trump voters what they thought of his presidential performance to date. What an interesting trapped-in-amber moment, because that was just before the military strike in Syria, and the controversial but successful U.S. Supreme Court nomination. This week, arguably for the first time since the election, The Circus gets to show Trump triumphan

2017

Apr

HOMELAND By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: Last week, Homeland escalated tensions on several front, with an inflammatory TV appearance featuring the President-Elect and a sudden spike in the spy-directed infusion of “fake news” on Internet sites. In tonight’s Season 6 finale, new chief executive Keane (Elizabeth Marvel) is targeted not by disinformation and a smear campaign, but by a highly trained hit squad sent to kill her – with only Carrie (Claire Danes) suspecting the mission, and on site to pr

2017

Apr

FEUD: BETTE AND JOAN By David Bianculli

In last week’s episode, Bette Davis lost the Best Actress Oscar to Anne Bancroft, while a competitive and gleeful Joan Crawford, who hadn’t even been nominated, accepted on Bancroft’s behalf. (And what a great, unbroken handheld camera shot that episode included!) The feud between Davis and Crawford, played so superbly by Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange, is at fever pitch now – but it’s not over just because the Oscars have been awarded. Now, in tonight’s new

2017

Apr

GIRLS By David Bianculli

Last week, the drama and the comedy were equally satisfying, as Adam (Adam Driver) came back to Hannah (Lena Dunham) and argued that they should reunite as a loving couple. This week, in this series’ penultimate episode, the reunions continue, as Hannah contacts her inner circle and requests a “group meeting.”

2017

Apr

BILLIONS By David Bianculli

Paul Giamatti and Maggie Siff, paying the estranged power couple Chuck and Wendy Rhoades, have been excellent on this series, and especially coiled and intense this season, as they circle each other as well as outsiders. But their intensity is, if anything, outshone this year by Damian Lewis as billionaire Bobby Axelrod, who’s fighting hard to retain and expand his power base. With so many billionaires in and around the White House, his performance in Billions has even more resonance &ndas

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