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2018
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MINISERIES PREMIERE: Paul Dano and Benicio Del Toro star in this seven-hour miniseries, playing real-life convicts Richard Matt and David Sweat, who escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility in 2015. They escaped with help from prison employee Joyce Mitchell, played by Patricia Arquette. For a full review, see Ed Bark's Uncle Barky's Bytes.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Nov
18
 
 
Every week Oliver is reviewing the previous week, I’ll be there. So here we are again…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Nov
17
 
 
The word “Jonestown” doesn’t invoke quite the same chill now as it did when Americans first heard the incomprehensible news that more than 900 followers of a religious leader named Jim Jones had killed themselves on his command...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Nov
17
 
 
Once again, on Saturday, it’s a very slow night. So, once again, the only thing on TV I’m pointing out today is the new installment of SNL. This week the guest star is Steve Carell, and the musical guest is Ella Mai. (Say, didn’t she used to be on The Beverly Hillbillies?)
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Nov
16
 
 
Netflix has become a powerful streamer. Michael Douglas’ new character very much wants to be one again...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Nov
16
 
 
Hulu’s wry comic drama The Bisexual doesn’t leave viewers guessing about its subject matter...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Nov
16
 
 
MOVIE PREMIERE: This Coen Brothers movie, a made-for-Netflix Western, was envisioned as a six-part anthology series, then refashioned as a movie so that it could be (and, last Friday, was) released in theaters as a movie, thus qualifying for Oscars and other film awards. I don’t care how it got here – I just know that from the very first frame, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs charmed me silly. Tim Blake Nelson, who showed off his singing and comedy chops in the Coen Brothers’ mast
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Nov
16
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: Chuck Lorre, co-creator and overseer of CBS’s The Big Bang Theory, foregoes the studio audience and multi-camera approach to present this eight-episode comedy series about two very old friends – emphasis on the old. Michael Douglas, 74, is veteran Hollywood acting coach Sandy Kominsky, and Alan Arkin, 84, is his sarcastic and honest agent, Norman Newlander. They meet for lunch and drinks at Musso & Frank’s, where their waiter is even older, and get through
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Nov
16
 
 
SEASON FINALE: A few weeks after celebrating his 25th anniversary hosting a topical comedy talk show, Maher calls it quits – but only for the season. And this season finale, celebrating an increasingly blue wave in the midterm elections, includes such scheduled guests as Van Jones, Steve Schmidt and Garry Kasparov.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Nov
16
 
 
Attention, all guys: Don’t let the gender diversity in the cast of Netflix’s new comedy The Kominsky Method fool you into thinking this is some kind of female-centric rom-com. Oh, you’ll see a couple of terrific female characters, but with all due respect, this show is also a charming old-guy buddy tale...