With the CIA ranks decimated after the bombing, Saul (Many Patinkin) calls in a new “expert” to help steer their investigation – a young woman who’s just started at the agency, and doesn’t exactly make a positive first impression with her new boss. Saul starts off being rather tough with her – and before the episode is over, that sternness spreads to other people in Saul’s inner circle.

2013

Oct

MASTERS OF SEX By David Bianculli

Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan continue their starring roles as sex researchers William Masters and Virginia Johnson, and in tonight’s episode, the private fantasies of both of them are revealed, and shown on screen. His are of a sexual nature, with her. Hers are of ways to reject his advances. This couple, indeed, is worthy of further study.

2013

Oct

'BREAKING BAD' VIDEO AS ART By Eric Gould

You'd think that a week out from the finale, we would be all done with Breaking Bad material. Uh uh... Here's a supercut collaboration compiling some of the signature shots from Season 5.2...

2013

Oct

'MIND OF A CHEF' COOKS UP INNOVATION By Gabriela Tamariz

PBS's The Mind of a Chef is back this fall on Saturday nights, with new hosts and new flavors to make your stomach growl with hunger...

2013

Oct

2013 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYOFFS By David Bianculli

Only two postseason games are played today, as a doubleheader televised by TBS. First up, at 5:30 p.m. ET, is Game 2 in the Tampa Bay Rays vs. Boston Red Sox series, a series in which Boston has the edge by clobbering the Rays 12-2 in Game 1. Next, at 9 p.m. ET, is Game 2 in the Detroit Tigers vs. Oakland Athletics, a contest which, to this point, has been much more competitive: Detroit won Game 1 by a score of 3-2.

2013

Oct

MUHAMMAD ALI'S GREATEST FIGHT By David Bianculli

This new HBO telemovie is about Muhammad Ali’s U.S. Supreme Court battle to defend his conscientious objection status in refusing to be drafted during the Vietnam War. Ali is seen only in vintage footage, but the Supreme Court justices are played by others. And what others: Christopher Plummer, Frank Langella and Danny Glover star. For a full review, see Gerald Jordan’s Crossing Jordan.

2013

Oct

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE By David Bianculli

One of Stanley Kubrick’s masterpieces. This 1971 movie, based on the book by Anthony Burgess, is the movie that made me want to be a critic, because it disturbed yet impressed me at the same time, and I kept returning to it to figure out why. (The answer: It’s a brilliant piece of filmmaking, basically.) Malcolm McDowell stars as a futuristic teen thug who, over the course of the movie, experiences being both predator and prey.

2013

Oct

HOUSE OF VERSACE By David Bianculli

I’m not remarking on the quality of this new Lifetime movie – just on the casting, which is reason enough to tune in on a slow Sarturday night. Gina Gershon stars as Donatella Versace, the fashion designer who, until now, has been most visibly and famously portrayed by Maya Rudolph on Saturday Night Live. And also featured in this movie, in a supporting role: Raquel Welch. The stars of Showgirls and One Million Years B.C. in the same movie? Here we go…

2013

Oct

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE By David Bianculli

There have been two pop-culture tsunamis so far this fall: the build-up to the end of Breaking Bad, and the series of successfully attention-demanding antics by Miley Cyrus. Posturing at MTV’s Video Music Awards. Riding her “Wrecking Ball” video, naked, to unprecedented first-day views. And now, appearing on Saturday Night Live, as both guest host and musical guest. Nice twerk if you can get it.

2013

Oct

AMERICA IN THE 1950S: GONE FISSION By Noel Holston

We saw mushroom clouds in our nightmares. Fallout freaked us out. We had plenty more to fear than fear itself...

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