Tonight’s new episode celebrates Thanksgiving, in family gatherings in present and past timelines. And pass the drama: as a complete family unit, the flashback Thanksgiving not only may be the Pearsons’ last. It is their last.

2018

Nov

FRONTLINE: "DOCUMENTING HATE: NEW AMERICAN NAZIS" By David Bianculli

Frontline already has presented one documentary under the Documenting Hate banner – and sadly, there’s plenty of room, and need, for at least one sequel. Documenting Hate: Charlottesville was broadcast in August, examining the roots of the violence that erupted at that 2017 rally. Tonight’s new entry is called Documenting Hate: New American Nazis, and uses the horrific and deadly anti-Semitic attack upon Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue as a springboard to probe the cu

2018

Nov

THE VOICE By David Bianculli

After last week’s live eliminations, The Voice is down to the Top 13 – which, for at least one of tonight’s singers in tonight’s next round of competition, will not prove to be a lucky number.

2018

Nov

THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL By David Bianculli

MINISERIES PREMIERE: It takes a long time for this new miniseries to get going. In fact, tonight’s two-hour block of this adaptation of the John Le Carre novel takes that long just to set the spy drama’s primary plot in action. But it’s worth it. And The Little Drummer Girl, which continues Tuesday and concludes Wednesday, ends up being well worth your time, and memorably suspenseful. Florence Pugh stars as a British actress recruited by some Israeli spies (Alexander Skarsgard,

2018

Nov

ALL YOU NEED IS ART By Eric Gould

It’s the 50th (gulp) anniversary of the eponymous The Beatles album (aka The White Album) released in November 1968, and to mark the occasion the company has released two new videos to coincide with a special re-release of the record...

2018

Nov

SHOWTIME'S 'ESCAPE AT DANNEMORA': A PRISON BREAK QUITE UNLIKE ANY OTHER By Ed Bark

There’s nothing at all comedic, or even serio-comic about Showtime’s Escape At Dannemora, which makes it all the more surprising to see Ben Stiller’s named attached...

2018

Nov

HBO BRINGS ELENA FERANTE'S 'MY BRILLIANT FRIEND' TO MINISERIES By David Hinckley

Elena Ferrante’s four Neapolitan novels have tens of millions of fans, and HBO’s adaption of the first one, My Brilliant Friend, reminds us why...

2018

Nov

ENEMIES: THE PRESIDENT, JUSTICE & THE FBI By David Bianculli

DOCUMENTARY SERIES PREMIERE: This four-part nonfiction series slips into the Sunday night Showtime slot established by The Circus – a great place to watch a weekly take on political maneuvering. This new effort is from director Alex Gibney, and is based on Tim Weiner’s book Enemies: A History of the FBI. It examines the complex ways, over the years, in which the White House, the courts and the FBI have functioned. And, often, dysfunctioned.

2018

Nov

THE CLINTON AFFAIR By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Watch this only if you’re interested – but I’m guessing many people will be. It’s a new nonfiction series examining the scandalous relationship between President Bill Clinton and one of his White House interns, Monica Lewinsky. But this time, Lewinsky herself provides her side of the story, her memories – and her assessment of how that affair changed her life.

2018

Nov

RAY DONOVAN By David Bianculli

Mickey Donovan (Jon Voight) is so furious at what w a movie production company has done to his screenplay, he’s stormed the New York location set and kidnapped the leading man. And in the process, Voight gets to stroll the streets of New York again, many, many years after Midnight Cowboy.

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