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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2017
Apr
6
SWEDISH IMPORT 'JORDSKOTT' IS A WORTHY MASH-UP By David Hinckley
 
 
To the casual viewer who just likes a good tense police mystery drama, the Swedish series Jordskott seems to be exactly that right up until the moment we suddenly realize it’s also a sci-fi horror story...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
5
THE REASONS WHY ’13 REASONS WHY’ HAS IMPORTANT THINGS TO SAY By David Hinckley
 
 
Watching 13 hours about a teenage girl killing herself may not sound like the most enticing of the many choices on television these days. Trouble is, suicide is a choice too many real-life teenagers make...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
5
‘ARCHER’ RETURNS ON A NEW NETWORK AND IN A NEW DECADE By David Hinckley
 
 
Sterling Archer meets Humphrey Bogart this season, and it’s about time. Archer, the title character in television’s finest animated detective dramedy, ended last season in a coma...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
4
THE TENSION AND TURMOIL OF ‘PRISON BREAK’ IS BACK ON FOX By David Hinckley
 
 
If you imagine life in the Middle Ages was short, ugly and brutish, there’s a corner of television today that doesn’t portray it much differently. Take the return of Prison Break on Fox at 9 p.m. ET Tuesday...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
4
THE FUN UNDEAD RETURN ON ‘IZOMBIE’ By David Hinckley
 
 
Once upon a time, the undead on iZombie were just misunderstood. Now someone wants to kill them. That may sound a little weird, the undead already being dead and all...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
3
THE AFTERMATH OF THE MASS SHOOTING AT SANDY HOOK IS ADDRESSED ON PBS’ ‘NEWTOWN’ By David Hinckley
 
 
When Kim Snyder decided to make a documentary on the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., she didn’t want simply to plunge back into the darkness...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
2
PBS’S ‘HOME FIRES’ IS BEING EXTINGUISHED AFTER THIS SEASON By David Hinckley
 
 
The only bad thing about PBS’s Home Fires is that, alas, its second season will be its last...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Apr
2
THE NUNS FROM ‘CALL THE MIDWIFE’ RETURN TO A NEW BOSS By David Hinckley
 
 
The delivery of babies remains a constant on PBS’s Call the Midwife, but almost everything else in the show’s world keeps changing as we move to Season 6 and the early 1960s...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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