Those ubiquitous Seinfeld reruns are just one of many places you’ll find Jason Alexander these days. He'll be in the new animated children's series Kody Kapow on the Sprout channel, and later this fall on the new Audience Network comedy Hit the Road...

2017

Aug

‘COMRADE DETECTIVE’ IS HARD TO EXPLAIN BUT EASY TO WATCH By David Hinckley

Like most spoof shows, Amazon’s Comrade Detective may have a finite life span. But the new series offers some clever moments out of the gate...

2017

Aug

USA'S 'THE SINNER' HAS PERP, SEARCHES FOR MOTIVE By David Hinckley

Maybe the biggest surprise about USA’s dark new series The Sinner is that it isn’t based on a story from Scandinavia. Instead, it’s based on a story from Germany. Close enough...

2017

Jul

LOVE, RELIGION, AND AIDS WITH ‘MEMORIES OF A PENITENT HEART’ By David Hinckley

Like most big stories, the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s was also a tragically large number of small stories, and director Cecilia Aldarondo has found a compelling one in Memories of A Penitent Heart...

2017

Jul

THE FINAL EPISODE OF ‘RARE’ OFFERS MORE INSIGHT INTO ENDANGERED SPECIES By David Hinckley

National Geographic’s Joel Sartore has photographed thousands of birds, animals, insect, fish, and other wildlife over the last quarter century. For a disturbing number of those species, Sartore’s photographs may soon be all we have left...

2017

Jul

REEXAMINING THE ‘SON OF SAM’ CASE ON SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL By David Hinckley

For people who lived in New York in the mid-1970s, there has never been a more visceral example of homegrown terror than the Son of Sam case...

2017

Jul

THE DISTURBING AND CREEPY ‘ROOM 104’ By David Hinckley

If your sleep issue is that you don’t have enough nightmares, several episodes of HBO’s new Room 104 should be just the antidote you were looking for...

2017

Jul

JUNE FORAY 1917 - 2017 By David Hinckley

June Foray was heard but not seen. Foray, who died Thursday in Los Angeles, just a few weeks short of her 100^th birthday, provided the voices for hundreds of animated television and film characters over a career that spanned 10 decades...

2017

Jul

AMAZON'S 'THE LAST TYCOON' ISN'T PERFECT, BUT CERTAINLY WORTH WATCHING By David Hinckley

Thought-provoking and melancholy, like all good F. Scott Fitzgerald stories, The Last Tycoon delivers a good summer watch...

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