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2018
Oct
31
 
 
We all speculate from time to time about what cities like New York, Tokyo, London, and Miami will look like in the future. This produces a wide range of dreams and visions, among which we usually find a consensus on at least one point: We don’t want them to look like Atlantis...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Oct
29
 
 
Lest anyone think Smithsonian’s new Lost Tapes special on the impeachment of President Bill Clinton is just an exercise in uncomfortable nostalgia, the documentary opens with an old news clip of Clinton at a podium saying he will “make America great again.”...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Oct
28
 
 
Partway through the first episode in Season 6 of Ray Donovan, Liev Schreiber’s Ray – that’s Ray from the South Boston Donovans – walks into a bar wearing a Yankees cap. That, my friend, is how a TV show signals a reset...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Oct
28
 
 
Christian Brassington has the best of both worlds: He gets all the fun of playing a really sleazy character on television yet in real life he doesn’t get stopped on the street by viewers who want to scold him about it...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Oct
25
 
 
Apparently, it isn’t only in the shadowy darkness that vampires live forever...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Oct
24
 
 
The Bodyguard, a TV series not to be confused with the Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner movie, opens with British policeman David Budd trying to talk a woman out of detonating the suicide vest into which her husband has strapped her...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Oct
23
 
 
In real life, Elizabeth Bennett of Pride and Prejudice probably wouldn’t stand a chance in a faceoff with Harry Potter...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Oct
21
 
 
At a time when the supernatural on television tends to turn graphically violent, the BBC and PBS deliver something closer to intrigue bordering on elegance in the classic quasi-ghost story The Woman in White...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Oct
19
 
 
Marvel’s Daredevil did the right thing with its alpha villain back in Season 1. It didn’t kill him. It just locked him up...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Oct
16
 
 
There’s no reason Jewish families should be the only ones featured in zany, exasperating, nostalgic and ultimately heartwarming sitcoms...