DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

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2018
Jun
3
 
 
AMC’s new series Dietland achieves the remarkable feat of not feeling like anything else currently on television. Like a diet itself, it feels valuable while sometimes seeming hard to quantify, shape and digest...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
30
 
 

The Americans doesn’t end the way most fans have probably been thinking it would end... No spoilers here, except to say many viewers may be surprised by who’s left standing at the end. And where...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
29
 
 
When the History Channel gets serious, it can still offer solid stories like its new Hunting ISIS...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
28
 
 
For Whom the Bell Tolls, HBO’s documentary on Sen. John McCain, plays like the kind of tribute that, at the risk of sounding cold, ordinarily surfaces after the subject has died...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
27
 
 

One of the many contradictions of unaffiliated journalism is that a troubling message can be good news for the messenger. Showtime’s new documentary series The Fourth Estate makes that point explicitly and implicitly...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
26
 
 
When a show is slotted for 10 o’clock Saturday night on a holiday weekend, it’s usually a good indication someone at the network thinks it’s going to be a hard watch...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
23
 
 
The women in the Defoe family excel at breaking things up. Of course, they do. They’re high-end London divorce lawyers...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
23
 
 
In the music game, Clint Walker would have been what we call a one-hit wonder...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
22
 
 
If any campaign can cross party lines this summer, it should be the one PBS has just launched: It wants us to read books...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
22
 
 
Will Shortz is a two-sport athlete: Table tennis and crossword puzzles...