Episode 5. This series, for example, hasn’t proven itself either way as yet. After four hours, I still don’t have a grasp, or a firm opinion of, this revisitation of the Twin Peaks songbook. There are individual scenes that work, but there are others that are just… there. Tonight, perhaps, the plot lines will advance, and the character of Dale Cooper will begin acting like – well, like the character of Dale Cooper, rather than either a longer-haired Michael Madsen or an

2017

Jun

AMERICAN GODS By David Bianculli

Episode 6. Ian McShane’s Mr. Wednesday feels increasingly threatened by the new gods – and increasingly determined to defend himself, with a little help from his friends.

2017

Jun

I'M DYING UP HERE By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This new series is a missed opportunity – a TV series, based on a nonfiction book about the burgeoning standup comedy scene of the 1970s, rewritten and whitewashed as a fictional work featuring mostly composite characters. The major reason to watch also is the major reason this series should have played it straight, and fact-based: Melissa Leo is a marvel as Goldie, the tough-talking owner of an L.A. comedy club that serves as home base for a parade of aspiring young

2017

Jun

FAMILIAR STRANGE BEGINNINGS By Eric Gould

While much of the criticism of David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return focuses on its non-sequiturs, time shifts, and general incomprehensibility, it’s probably wise to remember that it was always, sort of, this way...

2017

Jun

LIVING THE LIFE OF TORTURED STANDUPS IN SHOWTIME'S SEARING ‘I'M DYING UP HERE’ By Ed Bark

It’s oftentimes said, usually by its practitioners, that comedy isn’t pretty...

2017

Jun

‘GAP YEAR’ FOLLOWS MILLENNIALS ON A TRIP THROUGH SOUTHEAST ASIA By David Hinckley

Gap Year, a Brit series that rolled out Friday on Hulu, suggests the real rule of overseas travel for millennials is this: Don’t forget to pack all the neuroses that drove you to travel in the first place...

2017

Jun

SGT. PEPPER'S MUSICAL REVOLUTION By David Bianculli

SPECIAL: This is the easiest, and most obvious, TV recommendation of the night. Fifty years (and a day or two) after The Beatles released the groundbreaking 1967 concept album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, PBS presents a new special, co-produced by Apple Corps Ltd. With the full support of the Beatles estate. Directed by Francis Hanly and hosted by Howard Goodall, this special uses audio outtakes from the Sgt. Pepper sessions to help deconstruct and reconstruct the making of one o

2017

Jun

MISS PEREGRINE’S HOUSE FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN By David Bianculli

This 2016 movie, sort of a cross between The X-Men and a Dickensian boarding house, is a Tim Burton film that almost got unnoticed as a Tim Burton film, but it’s clearly got his take on it – and, like Barry Sonnenfeld with The Addams Family and A Series of Unfortunate Events, benefits greatly from his visual playfulness. Eva Green, so great in Showtime’s Penny Dreadful (and also prominent in Burton’s own, less impressive Dark Shadows remake), stars as the title character.

2017

Jun

THE SON By David Bianculli

In tonight’s episode, in the sequences in the past now set in 1849, young Eli must trust an unlikely ally in order to survive his latest set of ordeals. Meanwhile, his older counterpart, back in 1915, has problems, and allies and adversaries, of his own.

2017

Jun

DOCTOR WHO By David Bianculli

Tonight’s new episode, “The Lie of the Land” (lie, not lay – get it?), concludes this unofficial trilogy story line about the menacing alien monks. In the first episode, the end of the Earth turned out to be an artificial test-run simulation before the monks’ actual invasion. In the second episode, the blinded Doctor (Peter Capaldi) regained his sight, but potentially at the loss of Earth for real. But tonight, the Doctor and his companions have one last chance to s

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