In tonight’s episode, Zane Holtz and D.J. Cotrona, as the Gecko brothers, go from the robbery to the road, and meet up with the family they end up kidnapping temporarily. Am I a bad person for wanting them to hurry up and get to the isolated dive bar, so that they can run into Eiza Gonzalez as vampire temptress Santanico Pandemonium? So far, she’s appeared only in flashbacks, or as a vision haunting one of the main characters – though it’s easy to see why.

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JUSTIFIED By David Bianculli

This week, Raylan (Timothy Olyphant) and Boyd (Walton Goggins) end up with a similar mission, hunting the same quarry – Dewey Crowe, who last week fled a police stop by running over both his own partner and the officer who was attempting to stop them. And in hunting Dewey down, Raylan, once again, finds himself in a showdown situation. These days, when doesn’t he?

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TV CRITIC DAVID BIANCULLI STILL A BREATH OF 'FRESH AIR' By About TVWW

The author, professor and NPR guest host has highlighted network gold for nearly 30 years... he's been dealing with finding an answer to deadlines, detritus and overlapping duties for a long time, paid to watch TV for a living for nearly 40 years. "I've seen a shameful amount of TV," Bianculli says without a hint of remorse...

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HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER By David Bianculli

The story’s almost over: At the end of the month, How I Met Your Mother will finally, finally finish its wedding day story. And even though it’s not the wedding day of the couple referred to in the show’s title, at least we’re getting closer. Though in tonight’s episode, there’s a bit of a frightening revelation that may affect the wedding.

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PAYCHECK TO PAYCHECK: THE LIFE & TIMES OF KATRINA GILBERT By David Bianculli

Maria Shriver is one of the executive producers of this documentary, which takes a one-person sample of someone working near or below the national poverty level, and follows that person through daily life, without narration. In this HBO Documentary Film, the person is Katrina Gilbert, a single women with three young kids, a job in a nursing home that pays just over $9 an hour, and a life that seems a nonstop treadmill of caring for others and facing more bills. It takes a while for what’s

2014

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NATURAL BORN KILLERS By David Bianculli

Matthew McConaughey got most of the attention for his riveting performance in HBO’s just-completed True Detective, but Woody Harrelson was excellent, too, and his reactions to his TV partner’s speeches and digressions were pivotal to the drama’s effectiveness. Here’s a chance to revisit the Oliver Stone film in which Harrelson proved he was so much more than a likable character actor from Cheers (though that, in itself, was a fine accomplishment). And one of the things th

2014

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BATES MOTEL By David Bianculli

On this series, this season, the primary plot is that Norma Bates’ infamous motel is threatened by the imminent construction of a freeway that will bypass the main access to Bates Motel. But on TV itself, there’s some quick construction, and a required relocation, going on around Bates Motel. The new show that A&E used to televise at 10 p.m. ET, Chloe Sevigny’s Those Who Kill, has been yanked from the schedule after just two showings. Beginning tonight, Bates Motel moves fr

2014

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INSIDE COMEDY By David Bianculli

Usually, David Steinberg interviews two different comedy stars in his excellent half-hour TV talk show. Tonight, he interviews three – but that’s because one focus this week is a comedy duo. Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, better known as Comedy Central’s Key & Peele, are two of Steinberg’s guests. The third? Veteran TV producer Garry Marshall, the guy behind TV’s Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Mork and Mindy, and so much more. When Marshall would show

2014

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'MCCONNELLING' WITH JON STEWART By Monique Nazareth

Last Thursday, Jon Stewart introduced a newly released political ad by Kentucky Senator and Senate Minority Leader Mitch Mcconnell on Comedy Central's The Daily Show. Apparently, it’s b-roll of the smiling Senator in various situations with nothing but music to accompany it for other PAC’s to use. That's what made it so perfect for Stewart...

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BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID By David Bianculli

One of my absolute favorite movies, ever. And here, on TCM, this 1969 Western classic, written by William Goldman and directed by George Roy Hill, is shown widescreen, without interruption, and without edits – so, presumably, we can hear what Butch and Cassidy (Paul Newman, Robert Redford) scream as they jump off that cliff. And no, it’s not “Geronimo!”

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