If you only know Kris Kristofferson from his biggest hit songs, like “Me and Bobby McGee” or “Help Me Make It Through The Night,” you can give yourself a treat Friday night by listening to a fistful of the rest...

2017

Oct

PERHAPS SHOWTIME'S 'ACTIVE SHOOTER' CAN HELP GET THE TOPIC OF MASS SHOOTINGS TO THE FOREFRONT By David Hinckley

Showtime’s docu-series Active Shooter has been a good way to put a bad thing into perspective...

2017

Oct

GOTHAM By David Bianculli

“Hog Day Afternoon” is the name of this weeks episode – and it refers to the introduction of a new villain to the Gotham series: Professor Pyg, played by guest star Michael Cerveris. Professor Pyg is a killer of a role, and Cerveris has plenty of experience playing a killer: He was an unforgettably good John Wilkes Booth in Stephen Sondheim’s musical Assassins.

2017

Oct

THE GOOD PLACE By David Bianculli

This NBC series has become one of the smartest and funniest sitcoms around. Last week, it saddled Ted Danson’s Michael with an existential crisis, which led to both jokes about a Kierkegaard musical and a midlife crisis, in which Danson’s humanoid assistant Janet was temporarily refashioned as a shapely blonde. This week, Janet’s glitches continue to affect the environment of “the good place” – which, if you’ve been watching The Good Place, you know is r

2017

Oct

THE ORVILLE By David Bianculli

Fox was able to promote this series heavily during the first two games of this year’s World Series – and with today being a travel day for the Houston Astros and Los Angeles Dodgers, Fox gets to slide in a new episode of The Orville between games (and, so far, what games they’ve been!). The title of tonight’s episode is “Majority Rule,” and has Kelly (Adrianne Palicki) leading an away team on a visit to a planet that resembles 21st century Earth. In case you&r

2017

Oct

A CLOCKWORK ORANGE By David Bianculli

Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 movie is a fantastic, disturbing, utterly original dystopian drama about free will, ultraviolence, and the disintegration of modern society. Based on Anthony Burgess’ novel, written back in 1962, Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange is an amazing piece of cinema – and the movie that made me want to become a critic, because I saw it so many times trying to understand why I liked it. Ironically, once I became a TV critic, and began to have to watch a lot of b

2017

Oct

PUTIN UNPLUGGED: PBS' 'FRONTLINE' TELLS A STORY WORTHY OF JOHN LE CARRÉ IN A TWO-PART 'PUTIN'S REVENGE' By Alex Strachan

I knew a number of things about Vladimir Putin before I sat down to PBS’ Frontline’s two-part program Putin’s Revenge, which premieres Wednesday...

2017

Oct

‘NOVA’ TAKES A LOOK AT DISASTROUS WEATHER By David Hinckley

PBS’s Nova series has decided that the way to make us feel better about this year’s catastrophic weather events is to point out that at some point over the last 20,000 years, extreme weather has been worse...

2017

Oct

'FRONTLINE' POURS ON THE RUSSIAN DRESSING WITH 'PUTIN'S REVENGE' By Ed Bark

Frontline’s A to Z Vladimir Putin primer, affixed with the sexier title of Putin’s Revenge, is dutifully sober and cautionary without being particularly revelatory. That is, unless you’ve been paying no attention at all...

2017

Oct

2017 WORLD SERIES By David Bianculli

Last night’s Game 1 of this year’s series was the fastest-played World Series game in 25 years – it took only two hours and 28 minutes, making it the fastest game since 1992. Pitching on both teams was amazing, but the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Houston Astros thanks to big-bearded Justin Turner’s big two-run homer that broke a 1-1 tie, and proved the only margin of victory the Dodgers needed. Tonight, Game 2 – and, most probably, more dominant pitching.

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