Those of us who grew up listening to the Beatles may take a deep breath when we overhear the grandchildren watching the colorful and charming new Netflix series Beat Bugs...

2016

Jul

GARRY MARSHALL'S WORLD: SMALL STORIES, NEVER CRUDE By David Hinckley

Thinking back on the late Garry Marshall’s work, which is what we do when a valuable artist dies, you become even more impressed when you realize he took the harder road to both comedy and romantic comedy...

2016

Jul

WHY 'POWER' IS MORE COMPELLING THAN ITS RIVAL 'EMPIRE' By David Hinckley

The electric Starz drama Power, television’s best “gangster show set in the black music world,” has lost none of its wattage when it returns Sunday...

2016

Jul

HBO'S 'VICE PRINCIPALS': AN AVALANCHE OF OBVIOUS JOKES AND DIRTY WORDS By David Hinckley

HBO’s Vice Principals will run 18 episodes, which makes it not a good sign that the laughs are already feeling forced by the end of episode one...

2016

Jul

ESPN'S 'DOC AND DARRYL' EXPLORES HOW TWO STARS FLAMED OUT By David Hinckley

What we learn from ESPN’s new film "Doc and Darryl" is that Dwight Gooden and Darryl Strawberry also don’t quite know what to say about what happened...

2016

Jul

HER STRONG CHARACTER IN 'MR. ROBOT' HAS HER IN ITS GRIP By David Hinckley

Since she started filming the second season of USA’s hot-buzz hit Mr. Robot, Stephanie Corneliussen has been on a sporadic apology tour...

2016

Jul

'SUITS' RETURNS FOR SEASON 6 WITH AN ORANGE/BLACK RESET By David Hinckley

The prison storyline in USA’s Suits will not be confused with the prison storylines in Orange Is the New Black – and not just because the inmates in Suits seem to wear blue...

2016

Jul

ACORN BRINGS US 'JERICHO,' A CRACKLING GOOD BRITISH WESTERN By David Hinckley

Okay, the U.K. isn’t usually where we colonists look for Westerns, but the Brits have come up with a crackling good one in Jericho, which arrives here Monday [July 11] on Acorn TV...

2016

Jul

TURTURRO MAKES HBO’S 'THE NIGHT OF' WORTHY OF GANDOLFINI'S MEMORY By David Hinckley

HBO’s The Night Of was worth the wait. The eight-part miniseries, which drills deep into the case of a New York man arrested for a murder he’s pretty sure he didn’t commit, premieres Sunday...

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