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2018
May
12
 
 
Reeling, raging, slurring and hallucinating, the title character in Showtime’s Patrick Melrose begins by riding high while sinking ever lower from non-stop addictions to booze, pills, and injections...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
12
 
 
A show starring Benedict Cumberbatch may not constitute a rarity these days, but Patrick Melrose provides an industrial-strength dose of the video world’s most wanted man...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
12
 
 
Writer-director Christopher Nolan presents this elaborately filmed drama about the decisive WWII battle in which Allied soldiers, surrounded by Nazis, held off the enemy while being evacuated by sea, in a daring and unorthodox plan. The same true story provided the pivotal climax for another 2017 WWII drama, Darkest Hour, starring Gary Oldman as Winston Churchill. So if you saw that movie, or know your history, consider this an after-the-fact Spoiler Alert.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
12
 
 
MINISERIES PREMIERE:  This new Showtime miniseries stars Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role, playing a British aristocrat with a serious drug addiction – and a childhood past more than dark enough to explain it. Based on the semi-autobiographical novels by Edward St. Aubyn, this five -part drama is darkly comic in spots, and just plain dark in others. But because of the performances, you won’t want to miss it. That goes for Cumberbatch, most certainly, who makes you feel bot
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
12
 
 
Returning as tonight’s guest host is Amy Schumer. Musical guest: Kacey Musgraves.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
11
 
 
If you’ve ever wistfully wondered whether anyone will make a John Hughes movie again, this should cheer you up: Someone has...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
11
 
 
Sweetbitter may have found a way to make the wild side of twentysomething New York life bingeable for viewers who aren’t twentysomething themselves...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
11
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: The original “Rocky & Bullwinkle” cartoon series from the late 1950s and early 1960s, Rocky & His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show, may have been my first personal examples of Must-See TV. So the idea that Amazon Prime is reviving the show after all these years is good news, but also news that’s laced with a bit of apprehension – especially since Amazon didn’t make any episodes available for preview. After watching the first few episodes of t
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
11
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This is Season 3 for this confidently entertaining and informative showcase for Bill Nye, and it begins with an episode about death – a bold and typically intriguing way to dive into the intersection of science and… everything else. Tyler the Creator guest stars in the opener, which taught me a cool new vocabulary word: apoptosis. As they say, you can look it up…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
11
 
 
Tonight’s episode is called “The Force of Gravity,” and it continues the story line in which Talbot (Adrian Pasdar), fully fueled by the alien element known as Gravitonium, is on a massive power trip. He may save the world, but he may also destroy it…