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2017
Sep
12
 
 
In this new ESPN 30 for 30 documentary, the year was 1987, and the scabs were the replacement players who came from Canadian teams, or from nowhere, to fulfill dreams of playing pro football in the States by crossing picket lines while regular team players went on strike. Eventually, the focus settles on one team in particular, where the efforts of these often maligned replacement players may have enabled the “real” players, once they returned, to ascend to the Super Bowl that year.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
12
 
 
MINISERIES CONCLUSION: Nicole Kidman, Gwendoline Christie and star Elisabeth Moss all play complicated, flinty, proudly independent characters in this Top of the Lake sequel – and in tonight’s conclusion, all three get scenes in which they display why they were so eager to play these particular parts.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
12
 
 
Kai (Evan Peters) is the fervid Trump supporter who is empowered, post-election, to begin his old cult. Ally (Sara Paulsen) is the distraught liberal who is so depressed, post-election, that she begins to fall apart mentally – even imagining that she’s being chased and threatened by frightening clowns. This new season of American Horror Story sounds like an obvious knee-jerk reaction to a particularly divisive political climate – but as it progresses, Cult begins rolling out tw
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
12
 
 
For the fifth year in a row, the Washington NFL team began its season with a loss Sunday. No news here: it looks like it might be another long season...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
12
 
 
Ken Burns was nine-years-old when he first heard the word Vietnam, and it meant nothing to him. That is to say, it meant about as much to him as North Korea might to an average nine-year-old today...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
11
 
 
My Love, Don’t Cross That River is a simple and profoundly moving examination of a couple that’s been together 75 years...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
11
 
 
The TV version of Newton’s Law doesn’t offer anything as profound as Isaac Newton’s theory of gravity. Just a good story...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
11
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: The latest season of Monday Night Football begins, officially, with a doubleheader. First up, at 7 p.m. ET, is the New Orleans Saints vs. Minnesota Vikings. Then, at 10:20 p.m. ET, another game, from the West Coast: the San Diego Chargers vs. the Denver Broncos.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
11
 
 
This movie came out when I was 7 years old, and while I didn’t even fully grasp the Swiss part of the title, or wonder why the shipwrecked boys had names like Ernst and Fritz, this live-action Disney film about a family fighting off pirates on a remote island, and living in an absurdly ornate treehouse, was almost too much for my imagination to bear. If my own, non-Swiss family hadn’t just moved to Ft. Lauderdale, where just about the only trees were palms, I would have lobbied for a
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Sep
11
 
 
Part 2 of 3. This miniseries deepens tonight, with a series of character studies comparable to Jane Tennison’s in the original Helen Mirren mysteries on Prime Suspect. Elisabeth Moss’s detective, Robin Griffin, is even more troubled and burdened than she was in the first Top of the Lake miniseries in 2013. Nicole Kidman, as the mother of a rebellious young woman, is fragile and open and raw in a remarkably impressive way – and Gwendoline Christie, as Robin’s newly assigne