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2018
Dec
14
 
 
One of the many pleasures tucked into Amazon’s award-winning series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is the occasional trip down a set of mysterious stairs to a 1958 record store...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Dec
12
 
 
The documentary Paris to Pittsburgh works hard at separating the politics of the climate change debate from the science of climate change...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Dec
12
 
 
Champaign ILL could be described as the hip-hop version of the classic Townes Van Zandt song “Pancho and Lefty.”...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Dec
10
 
 
Anyone who laments the lack of bipartisanship in contemporary America can sigh with wistful nostalgia over a new Vice documentary (in collaboration with HBO) on the trillion-dollar 2008 government bailout fondly known as TARP...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Dec
9
 
 
If you didn’t watch the first season of the Starz series Counterpart, don’t delude yourself that you could understand the second. If you did watch the first season...then you’ll be pleased with several of the turns in the new season...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Dec
9
 
 
Let’s face it, all of us can use a good extreme weather show once in a while. And if you air it under the aegis of the Smithsonian Channel, it almost sounds, well, educational...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Dec
7
 
 
The American Meme – which debuts Friday on Netflix – is essential for anyone who wants the full, if not always pretty, picture of contemporary cultural media...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Dec
5
 
 
One of the many reasons that The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel swept every comedy award last year, and deserved to sweep every comedy award, is that it wasn’t just a comedy...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Dec
4
 
 
More and more television shows, you may have noticed, never really die. They seem to, then spring back to life. They’re zombies. In a good way...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Dec
2
 
 
If Earth were dying and everyone on Earth knew it, you’d think humans might stop quarreling long enough to try saving it...