The film noir coma dream by Archer (J. Jon Benjamin) continues, with Archer and all his colleagues trapped in an alternate reality with different settings and identities. Hey, wait a second… except for the film noir part, isn’t that exactly what’s going on right now on ABC’s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.? Except that on that show, the hero isn’t driving around with a beautiful redhead and a dead body.

2017

Apr

BROCKMIRE By David Bianculli

In the premiere episode of this very funny new IFC series, Hank Azaria’s Brockmire was introduced in a flashback meltdown, having just discovered his wife having extramarital sex, then railing about it on the baseball public address system where he was a booth announcer. His wife, Lucy, had decided to adopt a very “free” lifestyle – and after they split up, Brockmire had spent the better part of a decade overseas and on a bender. But now he’s back, working at a mino

2017

Apr

EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE IN THE FACE OF UNIMAGINABLE HORROR – THE STORY OF THE ‘HOLOCAUST ESCAPE TUNNEL’ By David Hinckley

One of the great frustrations in discussing the Holocaust is that the numbers quickly become so large they often begin to feel abstract...

2017

Apr

FOX NEWS CHANNEL OFFICIALLY CUTS TIES WITH BILL O'REILLY (UPDATED) By Ed Bark

The Murdoch brothers and their father have officially performed last rites on Bill O’Reilly and his long-standing hit Fox News Channel show, The O’Reilly Factor...

2017

Apr

CREATOR NOAH HAWLEY ON THE NEW SEASON OF ‘FARGO’ By David Hinckley

If hanging the new season of Fargo on the fiscal crisis of 2008 doesn’t sound all that sexy, creator Noah Hawley says the new edition really gets back to something more timeless and troubling. “It’s about what people will do for money...”...

2017

Apr

THE VOICE By David Bianculli

Last night, in the first night of the live competition round, singers from the teams of Blake Shelton and Alicia Keys competed to stay alive in the contest. Two singers on each team of six were voted as worthy of continuing by viewers at the end of the program, and the judges were allowed, after that, to select one other team member apiece for advancement. At the show’s literal last minute, Keys rewarded, with her judge’s pardon, one of the finest performers of the night: Stephanie R

2017

Apr

IZOMBIE By David Bianculli

In tonight’s episode, Liv (Rose McIver) eats the brains, and temporarily absorbs the memories and personality, of a laid-back lifestyle guru. You might well ask: "Oh, yeah? And zen what happens?"

2017

Apr

L.A. BURNING: THE RIOTS 25 YEARS LATER By David Bianculli

They’re widely called the L.A. riots, those violent street protests that followed the 1992 not guilty verdict in the case of four white L.A.P.D. officers captured on videotape violently beating black motorist Rodney King. But others call them “the L.A. uprisings,” and 25 years later, the racial and societal divisions exposed by that event and court case have, sadly, been repeated and amplified in the many years since. “Can’t we all just get along?” King famous

2017

Apr

MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. By David Bianculli

For a few episodes now, the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. have been plugged into the alternate reality world known as the Framework, which keeps their bodies inert by their minds intensely occupied and distracted – by placing them in a different world, populated by the familiar yet altered. Aida (Mallory Jansen), an artificial intelligence android corrupted by an evil force, captured and mentally imprisoned and altered the agents, and now rules them as the ruthless leader of Hydra. But the native

2017

Apr

THE AMERICANS By David Bianculli

More than a year’s worth of episodes on The Americans, ever since young Paige (Holly Taylor, who gets better and better every week) snooped around in the family laundry room and began learning that her parents were Russian spies, have led up to the cliffhanger that ended last week’s episode. The chief handler of Philip and Elizabeth, Frank Langella’s Gabriel, had revealed to them his intention to return to the Soviet Union – and Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth (Keri R

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