As Barack Obama’s second term as President is about to begin, Frontline assesses his first, in a profile that is critical as well as complimentary. In any event, with Obama drawing lines in the sand, this month, about debt ceilings and gun control, it’s certainly a timely halftime show. Check local listings.

2013

Jan

JUSTIFIED By David Bianculli

In this second episode of the new season, Patton Oswalt continues his delightful recurring role as Constable Bob Sweeney, who becomes the newest and most comically entertaining sidekick of Timothy Olyphant’s Raylan Givens. But while they’re fun to watch, there’s a lot of serious stuff afoot as well, as this year’s major antagonists and plot lines continue to be introduced.

2013

Jan

COUGAR TOWN By David Bianculli

This week’s episode may as well be a tribute to Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott: the guys decide to sport major moustaches, as a way of proving, well, something. I'm not sure what, exactly -- and I've seen the show.

2013

Jan

'PIONEERS OF TELEVISION' CONTINUES ITS LOOK AT TV'S BEST By Tom Brinkmoeller

This season's Pioneers of Television focuses on female comedy stars, primetime soaps, superheroes and miniseries — and most importantly, historic television programming...

2013

Jan

HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER By David Bianculli

Ray Wise from Twin Peaks guest stars in this new episode, playing Robin’s father, whom Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) approaches to get his blessing to marry his daughter. Robin’s father may not be as easygoing as Barney would hope – but you have to like his taste in shirts. Don’t you? I do.

2013

Jan

THE CARRIE DIARIES By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This is not a recommendation, but this new CW series is too interesting a concept, as prequels go, not to mention. Flashing all the way back to 1984, this series is like a superhero origin story – except it’s all about Carrie Bradshaw, the heroine of Sex and the City, and how she got that way. AnnaSophia Robb plays the younger Carrie, and the pilot explains how she got her first fancy purse, met her first true fashionista (Freeman Agyeman of Doctor Who and Law &

2013

Jan

GIRLS By David Bianculli

If you watched the Golden Globes last night, and watched Lena Dunham walk off with all those Golden Globes for Girls, now you can see what all the fuss are about: Tonight, HBO2 repeats the Season 2 premiere, shown last night on HBO… directly opposite NBC’s telecast of the Golden Globe Awards.

2013

Jan

INDEPENDENT LENS: "SOUL FOOD JUNKIES" By David Bianculli

Filmmaker Byron Hurt became interested in looking seriously at the emotional connections African-Americans have to soul food when his own father, facing a health crisis, refused to back down from his regular diet. The younger Hurt talks with people covering the entire range of reactions, from enthusiasts of the title to those who believe the culinary tradition is a form of genocide as well as suicide. Personally, if I have to die with fried chicken from Aunt Berta’s as my weapon of c

2013

Jan

THE STAIRCASE By David Bianculli

Part 2. This updated 2004 documentary series continues, examining, once again, the complex mystery of the death of the wife of Michael Peterson.

2013

Jan

THE SOPRANOS By David Bianculli

Six seasons, 30 DVDs, and one of the most formative TV series of modern times...In style and content, it seems to serve as the perfect bridge, or dividing line, between “old” and “new” television dramas, with the antihero coming to full flower in the persona of James Gandolfini’s Tony Soprano...

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