MINISERIES PREMIERE: The sudden recent burst of socially relevant limited dramas, begun with ABC’s When We Rise and the Season 3 return of American Crime, continues with this new 10-part Fox drama, built around two cases of civilian shootings of teenagers by police officers. The racial components of the cases are polarized and polarizing: a white youth shot by a black cop, and a black youth shot by one or more white cops. For full reviews, see Ed Bark’s Uncle Barky’s Bytes and

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EMPIRE By David Bianculli

MIDSEASON RETURN: Now that Star has ended its freshman season, Empire returns for a new round of high-octane drama, the second half of Season 3 – and just watching the network promo, featuring Taraji P. Henson’s Cookie walking in slow motion with the fierceness of a lioness on the prowl, carrying a baseball bat like Beyoncé in her Lemonade video, is enough to get you to press “Record” for this midseason opener. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the

2017

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DESIGNATED SURVIVOR By David Bianculli

In this week’s episode, while the White House is in crisis mode, what’s left of the new administration and its supporters focuses less on the problems at hand than on the sources of potentially damaging press leaks. Isn’t it great to watch prime-time broadcast scripted television just to get away from it all?

2017

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LEGION By David Bianculli

This is the penultimate episode of Season 1 of Legion. At this point, I can’t understand, much less explain, exactly what’s going on – but I know that, each episode, things get not only more complicated, but even more interesting…

2017

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FULL FRONTAL WITH SAMANTHA BEE By David Bianculli

These days, watching Samantha Bee begin her show is like watching Reggie Jackson stroll up to home plate during his glory days with the New York Yankees. It seems like each week of headlines gives her some fat new pitches at which to swing – and lately, she’s really been hitting them out of the park.

2017

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DAVE CHAPPELLE: “THE AGE OF SPIN” AND “DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS” By David Bianculli

SPECIAL PREMIERES: Since Dave Chappelle walked away from Comedy Central and his popular, very funny series in 2005, he hasn’t gotten any less funny. He’s just spent the time, since his extended break, doing live standup appearances around the country – including one hilarious stop in Philadelphia, which I saw as he made one of his first return appearances. But Chappelle hasn’t made a TV standup special in the dozen years since his abrupt departure. Until now, when Netflix

2017

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THE VOICE By David Bianculli

The “Battle Rounds” continue, along with the input from the guest mentors brought on by this cycle’s judges. It’s a combination of good advice, genial competitiveness, and very talented vocal performances. It’s also a feel-good program which, on TV these days, is an increasing rarity.

2017

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FRONTLINE: "IRAQ UNCOVERED" By David Bianculli

My head is so close to exploding from the day’s headlines and analysis each day, I approach a Frontline special analysis of Iraq with equal parts curiosity and trepidation. If this is a scandal of sorts, how many scandals ago is it? And does my brain have the capacity for unpacking yet another important, detailed timeline of who did what when why and to whom? If there’s such a mental condition as news fatigue, I think, after four decades in journalism, I finally may be suffering from

2017

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THE AMERICANS By David Bianculli

Tonight’s new episode is titled “The Midges,” and it’s the one in which Elizabeth, on a mission that takes her to a remote greenhouse, uncovers the scary details of a covert plot to influence and weaken a rival superpower – but in this Reagan-era period spy series, it’s apparently the U.S. planning to use bio-engineered insects to destroy the Russian wheat crop. “Midge” is the name of the devastating, tiny little pest used as the object of wanton d

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