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...

2017

Apr

THE CIRCUS: INSIDE THE BIGGEST STORY ON EARTH By David Bianculli

On Sunday evenings, my busiest night for TV viewing, I’m happiest when both Showtime’s The Circus and HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver are present and offering new editions, as is the case tonight. I love learning new insights and perspectives on issues in the headlines, and I also get a bit of emotional release laughing at some of them. The funny thing is, with these two shows, the places you learn, and the places you laugh, aren’t always on the shows you might e

2017

Apr

THE WALKING DEAD By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: This seventh season began with Negan, the cruel post-apocalyptic tyrant played by Jeffery Dean Morgan, taking his barbed-wire-covered baseball bat and crushing in the skulls of two beloved Walking Dead regular characters. It ends tonight, finally, with Rick and company gathering enough resistance, ammunition and bravery to stage an attack to exact revenge and stop Negan’s reign. The tension, in this episode, probably will derive less from whether they’ll succeed (they

2017

Apr

BIG LITTLE LIES By David Bianculli

MINISERIES FINALE: This costume party episode is supposed to be the end of this HBO limited series, revealing both the identity of the murderer and the murdered – so far, we don’t know either, just that someone was killed. But speaking of killing, Big Little Lies has killed in the ratings – doing so well that HBO reportedly is considering bringing the show back for more story, and another run. Nothing’s set yet – but in today’s TV landscape, Walking Dead-level

2017

Apr

HOMELAND By David Bianculli

Is it just me? Or does it seem to you, too, that the more that Carrie (Claire Danes) and this season’s Homeland explore the intrigue between the various intelligence agencies and the White House, the more it seems to be some sort of alternate-universe equivalent of what’s going on in real life? Of course, it really is an alternate universe, because the newly elected President of the United States is a woman…

2017

Apr

FEUD: BETTE AND JOAN By David Bianculli

Tonight’s episode is called “And the Oscar Goes To….,” and has great fun with Joan Crawford’s jealous and fiendish campaign to try to steal some of the thunder from Bette Davis, her What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? co-star, who was nominated for an Academy Award while Crawford was not. The show even gets great drama out of the opening of an Oscar envelope – and when’s the last time that happened? Oh, yeah. I almost forgot….

2017

Apr

GIRLS By David Bianculli

Tonight’s episode title says it all: “What Will We Do This Time about Adam?” The performance of Adam Driver, as the unpredictable sometimes boyfriend of Lena Dunham’s Hannah, has been riveting from the start of this series – and it’s still riveting at the end. Adam comes to Hannah with some surprising news, while she, of course, has some significant news of her own. Will this lead to a reconciliation, and the former couple reuniting? Or is that too neat a ribb

2017

Apr

LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER By David Bianculli

Start with The Circus, and finish here. It’s a one-two punch of news and insanity, and you never know which show will be serving up which, or when.

2017

Apr

THE PEOPLE'S SUPREME COURT By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This new syndicated series has been rushed into production, in hopes of capitalizing on political and judicial gridlock should the confirmation of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch be stalled. That would leave the highest court in the land with a general 4-4 ideological divide, and the chances for lower court rulings to stand until a ninth Supreme Court judge finally is approved. This is where The People’s Supreme Court comes in: petitioners normally arguing before t

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