One of the gems of current television, The Handmaid’s Tale on Hulu, wraps up its first season with an ending that’s appropriately menacing and yet reassuringly cryptic...

2017

Jun

THE HANDMAID'S TALE By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: The season’s final episode of The Handmaid’s Tale is televised tonight, with Offred (Elisabeth Moss) reaching neither the end of her journey nor the end of her rope. But the way things are going, inside and outside her prison-type household, things are getting very tense. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All along the Watchtower.

2017

Jun

THE CARMICHAEL SHOW By David Bianculli

Tonight’s new episode is titled “Shoot-Up-Able,” and has Jarrod (Jarrod Carmichael) surviving a tragedy that requires police to visit the house to investigate. And when they show up, the reaction of the family members, to police and to the subject of guns, sets off another set of volatile, and very different, family reactions.

2017

Jun

FARGO By David Bianculli

Last week’s Fargo episode was an amazing one, showing Nikki Swango (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and her determined escape from what seemed like a rendezvous with certain death – an escape aided by a character who has appeared now in all three Fargo miniseries. As for Ray Wise’s character, who chatted with Nikki on a plane and in a bar earlier in the season, showing up again in what may or may not have been a remote bowling alley, who can tell? But this is the next-to-last episode

2017

Jun

BLOOD DRIVE By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Syfy unveils its newest weekly series – this one a grindhouse homage that’s set in a dystopian future that’s actually a reimagined past: a Mad Max-ish 1999. Christina Ochoa stars, in a show that’s not to be taken at all seriously, but ranks high with its scenes of sex, violence, robots, and blowing things up. The “Farm Film” critics on SCTV would have loved it, because things on this show “blow up real good.” For a full review, see

2017

Jun

FULL FRONTAL WITH SAMANTHA BEE By David Bianculli

To Bee or not to Bee? On the day after the attorney general testifies before a Senate committee, and on the day that happens to be President Donald Trump’s 71st birthday, the answer, in terms of TV recommendations, is: definitely be a Do-Bee.

2017

Jun

‘THE PLANET OF WYH’ UNCUT By Eric Gould

Like the rest of TVWW, Alex Strachan was struck and swept over by last week’s episode of Fargo (“Who Rules the Land of Denial” 6/7/17) where several Coen Brother film tropes are reprised...

2017

Jun

‘BLOOD DRIVE’ IS A NEW SYFY SHOW WITH THE EMPHASIS ON BLOOD By David Hinckley

You wouldn’t necessarily say the level of violence, blood, and mutilation in Syfy’s new series Blood Drive is unprecedented. You could find a similar level of gore with relative ease at, say, the Chicago stockyards...

2017

Jun

MARLENE DIETRICH TRIBUTE By David Bianculli

Most of Marlene Dietrich’s best, most glamorous and most outrageous movies are not included in tonight’s one-evening salute (what, no Scarlet Empress?). But there are some relative rarities here, including such early films as 1936’s Desire (at 8 p.m. ET, pictured) and 1933’s Song of Songs. But of this bunch, the classic arrives late, with the 2 a.m. ET showing of Dietrich’s late-career triumph, 1957’s Witness for the Prosecution.

2017

Jun

IZOMBIE By David Bianculli

Tonight’s new episode is called “Conspiracy Weary” (say it aloud, and it’s funnier), and has Liv and her vampire buddies ingesting the brains of a diehard conspiracy theorist. And when I say “diehard,” in this case, it’s literal…

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