Yesterday, this documentary – along with the aforementioned World Series Game 5 – was my Best TV Tomorrow recommendation on video. That’s two recommendations for TV offerings that I can’t see advance: the baseball game because it’s broadcast live, and this Showtie documentary because it’s cobbled together as late as possible, to include all the week’s big political events. This week, that will include the Republicans’ encroachment on the

2019

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THE WALKING DEAD By David Bianculli

Perhaps this is the week, after weeks of teasing, when we finally learn the cause, or at least the full effect, of the explosion of an unknown satellite above the land where our heroes, and the villains, currently are nestled. That’s what a zombie show needs to enliven itself… some UFOs.

2019

Oct

WATCHMEN By David Bianculli

Last week’s premiere set the stage for a new chapter in the Watchmen saga – and also showed its ability to pull us into the drama, with an unexpected and still-resonant death, suffered by a character I’d hoped would be central to this drama. But unsettling as that is, we still have Regina King as this show’s center – and for now, that’s plenty good enough for me.

2019

Oct

SILICON VALLEY By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Mike Judge’s razor-sharp, forward-thinking satire of Silicon Valley returns for a new season. And the way Judge has made fun of things before they happen in real life, he’s turned this series into a kind of small-scale, small-screen version of Paddy Chayefsky’s Network.

2019

Oct

MRS. FLETCHER By David Bianculli

MINISERIES PREMIERE: Tom Perrotta, who also wrote the novel which HBO adapted into The Leftovers, created this new series, also based on one of his novels. Kathryn Hahn, who did fine work in Parks and Recreation, I Love Dick, and all the way back to Crossing Jordan, stars as a single mom who adjusts to an empty nest after her son leaves for college. The son is played by Jackson White – and both of them are about to reconsider their long-held opinions regarding

2019

Oct

LAST WEEK TONIGHT WITH JOHN OLIVER By David Bianculli

This has been a crazy week for U.S. politics – and for U.K. politics, too. Here comes John Oliver, who may well take cracks at explaining both, and swings at ridiculing them.

2019

Oct

THE ROLLING STONES: TOTALLY STRIPPED By David Bianculli

On nights when there’s a World Series game scheduled, there usually aren’t a lot of alternatives. Here’s one, from a cable and satellite network most people seldom watch – but which may be worth finding, and watching, tonight. Totally Stripped is a music special, a film compiling performances from both concert events and studio sessions, in which The Rolling Stones perform many of their classic songs in stripped-down, acoustic versions. Basically, it’s&nbs

2019

Oct

JURASSIC PARK By David Bianculli

This is such a smart movie – and every time I see it, I marvel at something different. When I first saw it in theaters in 1993, it was to be astounded by the image of dinosaurs come to cinematic life. Now that that sort of moviemaking magic has become commonplace, thanks to digital special effects, watching Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park today is almost like re-reading a favorite children’s book from childhood. It’s a return to innocence, and yet, all these ye

2019

Oct

2019 WORLD SERIES By David Bianculli

Predicting the unpredictable may be the only way, in this year’s World Series, to prepare yourself for what’s to happen each night. During the first two games, the heavily favored Houston Astros had home-field advantage and played under American League rules (meaning pitchers for both teams could be substituted at the plate by designated hitters), yet the Washington Nationals won both of those games – the second one by a resounding 12-3 margin. Yet in last night’s Game 3,

2019

Oct

BOJACK HORSEMAN By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This is the sixth and final season of this improbably entertaining animated series, about the everyday misadventures and problems of a former talking-horse TV star. Will Arnett provides the voice of this equine has-been, and believe it or not, it’s one of Arnett’s best roles. This final go-round is divided into two half-season chunks (the first eight episodes arriving today, and the final eight dropping next January). Bojack – the horse, not the series –

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