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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2014
Apr
2
GOOD NIGHT, JOHN-BOY; HELLO, TELEVISION By Ed Martin
 
 
I remember a period spanning many years when The Waltons and its characters were part of the national conversation. They were household names; their routine "good nights" to each other at the end of every episode were mimicked by adults and kids alike...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
2
MODERN FAMILY By David Bianculli
 
 
Last week’s episode, set in Las Vegas, managed to put Sofia Vergara’s Gloria into a skimpy French maid costume for one fast, funny scene. This week – who am I kidding? With last week’s move (pictured, for posterity), Modern Family has my loyalty, and my attention, regardless.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
2
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA By David Bianculli
 
 
Whenever TCM shows David Lean’s 1962 epic, it’s worth watching – because this network shows the film as it should be seen, in the proper screen ratio, and without interruption. Peter O’Toole, Omar Sharif star.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
2
THE AMERICANS By David Bianculli
 
 
Elizabeth hasn’t given up on her personal mission yet, and takes aim on the U.S. capitol. Problem is, there are other people in Washington who haven’t given up on their missions yet either, and their paths seem destined to cross soon.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
2
DOLL & EM By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON FINALE: Em (Emily Mortimer) and best friend and personal assistant Dolly (Dolly Wells) end Season 1, with a poignant episode that leaves lots of room for an interesting and involving Season 2 – but only if producing network Sky, the British source of this series, opts to make more. Two episodes are shown tonight, and the last one, set in a London restaurant, is the one that really demonstrates this show’s potential.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
2
O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? By David Bianculli
 
 
A lovely, funny, creatively presented movie, this 2000 Coen Brothers film is a movie I love to watch, and am happy to recommend, every time it’s on. George Clooney stars, in what surely is the best interpretation of The Odyssey ever put on film.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
1
MONSTERS & MYSTERIES IN AMERICA By David Bianculli
 
 
Some people, looking for worthy TV alternatives today and tonight, might opt for The Story of the Jews with Simon Schama on PBS (8 p.m. ET), a new Justified on FX (10 p.m. ET), or the Season 2 premiere of Inside Amy Schumer on Comedy Central (10:30 p.m. ET). But today, of all days, the creature cognoscenti should be heading to Destination America, the little-known, little-watched cable network that today presents a mini-marathon of its Season 2 Mosters & Mysteries in America episodes. Where
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
1
KEEPING UP WITH THE KARDASHIANS By David Bianculli
 
 
One of the TVWW slogans, at least unofficially, is “No Kardashians,” but every once in a while – once a year, to be exact – an episode is televised that is so Kwintessentially Kardashian that it cannot be ignored. Today, almost like Klockwork, that day arrives. Again.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
1
AMISH MAFIA By David Bianculli
 
 
Tonight’s new episode of Amish Mafia includes a serious report about a very serious domestic abuse case – even if it’s a case that calls into question the entire cloistered premise of this Discovery Channel series about Amish “enforcers.” Tonight, those enforcers saddle up to shut down an Amish strip club. And that, in itself, raises all sorts of questions? What do they strip? Their collars and bonnets? And instead of stripper poles, do they gyrate around butter chu
 
 
 
  
 
 
2014
Apr
1
GAME OF ARMS By David Bianculli
 
 
This question may seem obvious, perhaps even rhetorical, but I’ll ask it anyway: What could possibly be more interesting than a TV show about arm wrestlers?
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
New From TVWW

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'
By Ed Bark
 
 
 
 
Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver
By Christy Slewinski
 
 
 
 
'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy
By Noel Holston
 
 
 
 

Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James
By Mike Hughes
 
 
 
 
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self
By Monique Nazareth
 
 
 
 
Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption
By David Hinckley