Last week, this documentary by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, about honor-killing in Pakistan (and, specifically, a young woman who survived the targeted killing by her father and uncle), won the Academy Award for documentary short subject. This week, here it is on HBO, which helped produce it – the latest feather in a feather-filled cap by HBO documentary maven Sheila Nevins.

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BATES MOTEL By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Last season ended with Norman (Freddie Highmore) killing someone, but doing it as his mother Norma – though, in his increasingly twisted mind, it was his mom (Vera Farmiga) doing the deadly deed. And what this means, going forward, is that both Highmore and Farmiga get to play dual roles. Highmore plays Norman and, on occasion, his embodiment of mother Norma – and Farmiga plays both mother Norma and her son’s imagined killer version of Mother Norma. And that, I

2016

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BETTER CALL SAUL By David Bianculli

Kim (Rhea Seehorn) has to go into the boardroom, to face both her boss and Saul’s brother, to defend her culpability with Saul’s controversial TV commercial. And the question she’s asked, basically, is: What did you know, and when did you know it?

2016

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AS SEEN PREVIOUSLY ON ‘CELEBRITY APPRENTICE': WHAT A TRUMP CABINET MIGHT LOOK LIKE By Alex Strachan

Super Tuesday wasn’t so super for old-school traditionalists. Super Saturday was no better. This is now a Donald Trump world. You’re just living in it...

2016

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'DOWNTON ABBEY' RECAP, SEASON 6, EPISODE 9, THE FINALE By David Hinckley

And just like that, Downton Abbey ended. Poof. Over. Unless the cast can be rounded up for a movie, we will never see them together again, and while we know that what we should say is “thanks for the memories,” it also illustrates how cruel the universe can be...

2016

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THE CIRCUS: INSIDE THE GREATEST POLITICAL SHOW ON EARTH By David Bianculli

It’s not too soon to start thinking about this Showtime political documentary series as a regular event – not only as an addition to your weekly TV viewing schedule, but as a TV series that rises from dormancy every few years, like locusts, to cover the latest presidential election campaign. It’s that interesting. Give the producers credit, too, for launching their Circus in the middle of the most unpredictable and unusual race in modern political history. The latest to fall: B

2016

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ONCE UPON A TIME By David Bianculli

MIDSEASON RETURN: Once Upon a Time is back with new episodes, but this time the show’s gone to hell. Or, at least, to some version of the Underworld, where a band of characters from Storybrooke descend in hopes of rescuing Hook. Watch for Greg Germann of Ally McBeal fame as Hades – and watch for several long-dispatched characters from the series to make return appearances, because Hades happens to be their current place of residence.

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THE GOOD WIFE By David Bianculli

In this week’s episode, the grand jury is assembled, Peter is the target – and Alicia and Eli have to decide what to do, how to react, and, most crucially, whom to trust. Assembling the jury: Assistant U.S. District Attorney Connor Fox, played by former Glee star Matthew Morrison.

2016

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MASTERPIECE: "DOWNTON ABBEY" By David Bianculli

MINISERIES CONCLUSION: What you want most, out of the final episode of a long-running, much-beloved TV series, is for it to end in a way that’s both satisfying and representative – that it feels like another episode of the series, and yet brings closure to several ongoing story lines and a punctuation mark to the fates and fortunes of several of the characters. Downton Abbey, with tonight’s home-run finale, does just that, in a way that ties a ribbon on the whole thing yet leav

2016

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THE WALKING DEAD By David Bianculli

Jesus, this has been a great midseason run so far for The Walking Dead – and the mysterious character who calls himself Jesus, and has delivered our understandably wary heroes to yet another new settlement of survivors, is a big part of it. Tom Payne plays Paul Monroe, a.k.a. Jesus.

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