If you’re looking for subtlety in your military adventure stories or your prime-time network drama, CBS’s new SEAL Team won’t be your cup of adrenalin...

2017

Sep

THE VIETNAM WAR By David Bianculli

Episode 9. Tonight’s installment is titled “A Disrespectful Loyalty,” and is loaded with drama, unexpected reveals, and emotional gut punches. That may sound like I’m issuing a warning, but quite the contrary. This episode covers from May 1970 to March 1973, and includes both POWs finally returning from Vietnam after years of brutal captivity – and, at home, the presidential cancer known as Watergate. For a full review of tonight’s episode, see Alex Stra

2017

Sep

SURVIVOR: HEROES VS. HEALERS VS. HUSTLERS By David Bianculli

CYCLE PREMIERE: This is not a recommendation. This is the 35th different contest for Survivor, and the desperation to find new ways to repackage the same old product no longer is wearing thin. It’s worn straight through. The competition for this new 2017 edition is set in Fiji, and the three teams starting out pitted against one another are, as the title suggests, heroes, healers and hustlers. If this alliterative approach to Survivor continues, I’ll tune back in for Vixens vs. Virgi

2017

Sep

EMPIRE By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This is Season 4 for Empire. If you remember what happened in the cliffhanger last season, you’re in better shape than Lucious (Terrence Howard), who’s still suffering from amnesia. And Cookie (Taraji P. Henson sees his condition as she sees just about everything else: as an opportunity.

2017

Sep

MR. MERCEDES By David Bianculli

Tonight, Brady (Harry Treadaway) gets even more wound up, angry and determined. Considering that, in the past, he’s killed people by driving his car into a crowd of helpless victims, that’s a dangerous escalation indeed.

2017

Sep

SEAL TEAM By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: The photography for this new CBS series pilot is way above average – but it’s not uncommon for a production company to invest lots of money in a pilot to sell it, then pull back both financially and artistically once the series begins. What’s most trustworthy about this series, for now, is the presence of David Boreanaz as the star. This guy has lived on TV, with one successful series after another, since co-starring in the first season of Buffy the Vampire Sla

2017

Sep

LIAR By David Bianculli

MINISERIES PREMIERE: This six-part British miniseries import stars Joanna Froggatt, who engendered such love and sympathy as lady’s maid Anna Bates on PBS’s Downton Abbey. Here, she plays a schoolteacher who accepts a date with a handsome doctor, played by Ioan Gruffudd, then awakens convinced that she was raped. Liar begins as a he-said, she-said drama, but eventually shifts to something more mysterious.

2017

Sep

JON BOKENKAMP ON THE MYSTERIES OF ‘THE BLACKLIST’ By David Hinckley

Jon Bokenkamp, who created NBC’s The Blacklist, knows where his shadowy tale is going. He’s just unsure about a few details like exactly how and exactly when...

2017

Sep

‘THE VIETNAM WAR’ “EPISODE 8 - THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD (APRIL 1969 - MAY 1970)” By Alex Strachan

“My older sister and I one time were watching the movie So Proudly We Hail! on TV,” ex-Army nurse Joan Furey recalls in the opening moments of “The History of the World,” tonight’s latest chapter in The Vietnam War...

2017

Sep

THE MENENDEZ BROTHERS GET ANOTHER WHIRL, THIS TIME WITH NBC'S ‘LAW & ORDER’ ATTACHED By Ed Bark

Yes, the Menendez murders have been “done” before, dating back to a pair of spring 1994 productions on Fox and CBS, and resuming this year with a two-hour ABC documentary and a scripted Lifetime movie. No, that lamentably doesn’t mean enough is enough...

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