The Handmaid’s Talebecame television’s sleeper hit last year, with good reason, and Season 2 leads off with the show’s biggest asset: lots and lots of Elisabeth Moss...

2018

Apr

THE HANDMAID'S TALE By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Many series these days return from hiatus between seasons having jumped ahead in their narrative time lines – a year later, three years later, or, in the case of Roseanne, many, many years later. But The Handmaid’s Tale, fresh from its Emmy win as Outstanding Drama Series, returns by picking up right where it left off: With our oppressed heroine, played so powerfully by Elisabeth Moss, being escorted by force from the home where she was assigned (i.e. imprisoned) as

2018

Apr

NOVA WONDERS By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: There’s a lot that could be called smart and clever in this new six-part spinoff science series from Nova, the super-long-running PBS show. One is to have relatively young scientists address various big questions, and another is to have the chosen hosts be people of color, and to have the majority of them we women. NOVA Wonders is intentionally inclusive, in tone as well as presentation. But while it avoids such unfortunately third-rail topics as evolution and climate chan

2018

Apr

SUITS By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: This is the end of Season 7, and it promises to end with a wedding. Rachel Zane, this show’s paralegal turned attorney, is slated to marry longtime boyfriend Mike Ross. They’ve planned a wedding on this show once before, but it fell through. This one won’t, because the actors playing Rachel and Mike have announced their attention to leave Suits for good after tonight’s season finale. The actor playing Mike, Patrick Adams, is pursuing other opportunities. An

2018

Apr

THE AMERICANS By David Bianculli

The summit meeting is getting closer, which means the need for inside intel, on both sides of the Soviet power struggle, is more heightened than ever. Elizabeth and Philip are working the same mission now, but for different sides. And on her side, Elizabeth, with help from her handler, Claudia (Margo Martindale), is getting daughter Paige more and more involved.

2018

Apr

ARCHER: DANGER ISLAND By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Archer, as an animated secret agent spoof series, was funny enough its first seven seasons. Then, after almost killing its titular spy character in that year’s season finale, returned with Archer and company in an entirely new time and place, and most of the characters with new identities. Turns out Archer was in a coma, and dreaming an entire other world, Singing Detective-style. So Season 8 was a film noir fantasy, and Season 9, starting tonight, continues the start-from

2018

Apr

BROCKMIRE By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: For Season 2, Hank Azaria’s on-the-skids baseball announcer Brockmire has worked his way up from the depths just enough to be faced with several new obstanles, opportunities and/or adversaries. He’s now in New Orleans, announcing games for the Atlanta Braves’ AAA team, but jockeying for attention and advancement opposite a new broadcast rival, Raj (Utkarsh Ambudkar), and dealing with an Atlanta Braves PR representative, Whitney, played by Dreama Walker from Don

2018

Apr

'NOVA' ASKS 'WHAT ARE ANIMALS SAYING?' By David Hinckley

PBS’s Nova starts an ambitious new series Wednesday by asking one of the eternal questions: What exactly are animals saying to us? Or to each other?...

2018

Apr

'ARCHER' RETURNS AND HASN'T LOST ANY OF ITS BRILLIANT FOOLISHNESS By David Hinckley

FXX’s Archer heads into Season 9 the way it started back in Season 1: It’s one of the funniest shows on television...

2018

Apr

HULU'S 'THE HANDMAID'S TALE' KEEPS THE FAITH WITH A BRACINGLY STRONG SEASON 2 By Ed Bark

The show that flipped the switch for Hulu has returned under its own full power...

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