This final season of Girls has delivered one excellent, unexpected plot twist after another, from character revelations to the recent mini-play, in which guest star Matthew Rhys played an author either victimized by, or victimizing, Lena Dunham’s Hannah. Tonight, Hannah’s mom, Loreen (played by Becky Ann Baker), comes home to roost – or, at least, her problems and issues do, as Loreen comes to visit after separating from Hannah’s father.

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LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER By David Bianculli

Last week, after doing the expected and unavoidable week’s debriefing on President Donald Trump, John Oliver took a major, and majorly appreciated, left turn, by interviewing the Dalai Lama. What will Oliver do tonight? All I know is I’ll be watching… and grateful for the opportunity.

2017

Mar

CANINE CONFESSIONS By Eric Gould

Conservative observation has it that liberals usually assume everyone’s a critic of the President. See what happens in this SNL sketch when three scientists (including Scarlett Johansson) debut their new invention, a machine that translates for pets...

2017

Mar

OPPOSITE OF ESCAPISM: SEASON 3 OF ABC'S ‘AMERICAN CRIME’ By Ed Bark

Season 3 of American Crime looks like a very tough, if not an impossible sell. Which in its own way is commendable on the part of ABC but not exactly heartening news for the Disney-owned network’s sales force or stockholders...

2017

Mar

SEASON 3 OF ABC’S ‘AMERICAN CRIME’ ADDRESSES THE ISSUES OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS By David Hinckley

To the credit of ABC and creator John Ridley, American Crime is still tackling the tough ones and not pretending any solution is easy...

2017

Mar

CREAM: FAREWELL CONCERT By David Bianculli

Like its dairy namesake, the Sixties supergroup trio Cream turned out to have a very brief shelf life. Guitarist Eric Clapton, bass player Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker released their first album, Fresh Cream, in 1966, and disbanded after Cream’s Royal Albert Hall farewell concert two years later. A TV special was built around the goodbye performance in 1967, but it took decades for a remastered and re-edited version to capture a decent version of that last onstage performance (until

2017

Mar

PLANET EARTH II By David Bianculli

If you’re not hooked on this nature series by now, you should be. And you can jump aboard this particular band wagon any time, so whether you’re returning, or a first-timer to Planet Earth II, enjoy tonight’s astoundingly photographed installment, called “Deserts,” which includes more than one thrillingly photographed chase scene.

2017

Mar

SAMURAI JACK By David Bianculli

SERIES RETURN: Samurai Jack was an animated series about a time-traveling samurai warrior. It was a visually bold, Emmy-winning adventure series created by Genndy Tartakovsky, and ran for four seasons on the Cartoon Network from 2001-2004. Tonight it returns, with new installments, and with Tartakovsky again in charge, on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. It seems altogether fitting: a series about a Japanese warrior displaced in time resurfaces in a strikingly different era…

2017

Mar

THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW By David Bianculli

Tonight's show features a reunion of X-Men co-stars Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellan and Patrick Stewart, but not technically for that series of movies. Stewart and Jackman are visiting Graham Norton tonight to promote Logan, Jackman's newest Marvel Comics entry in his Wolverine spinoff series, while McKellan is on hand to promote the new live-action movie version of Beauty in the Beast, in which he plays Cogsworth.

2017

Mar

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli

On tonight’s new edition, Scarlett Johansson hosts Saturday Night Live for the fifth time – earning her entrance into the show’s ultra-exclusive Five-Timers Club, a group ranging from old-time SNL veterans Tom Hanks and Steve Martin to more modern frequent SNL flyers Alec Baldwin and Justin Timberlake. And Johansson, on SNL, deserves her return invitations: She’s been consistently funny and increasingly fearless. Tonight’s musical guest: Lorde.

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