SEASON PREMIERE: This is the third and final season for Jessica Jones, which was, and remains, the best Marvel TV series based on one of the comic giant’s characters. The first season had Jessica (Krysten Ritter), a private detective imbued with supernatural strength and agility, battling two demons: her alcoholism, and the mind-controlling bad guy who captured and manipulated her as his unwilling plaything before she escaped and vowed revenge. David Tennant played that villain, and was a

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MURDER MYSTERY By David Bianculli

MOVIE PREMIERE: Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler star in Sandler’s latest made-for-Netflix movie comedy, and this is by far his best concept yet. Not for the movie, but for the deal he gets from Netflix: For Murder Mystery, he concocts a plot that allows he and his cast members to go to Monte Carlo and film on a yacht, with he and Aniston playing American vacationers invited to a private gathering hosted by a snooty tycoon (Terence Stamp), who isn’t so much the life of the party as

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MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. By David Bianculli

In this week’s new episode, alternate universes converge, and so do plot lines that have been dangling for several seasons now. This is the episode when what’s left of the old S.H.I.E.L.D. team finally locates Fitz, whose misadventures has taken him through various time and space portals. The question is, have they found him only to lose him again?

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JETT By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: Carla Gugino already made her mark on TV in one attention-getting series, the outstanding Elmore Leonard Out of Sight spinoff, Karen Sisco. But ABC canceled that series much too prematurely, and it’s taken until now, 16 years later, for Gugino to get another worthy shot. In this new crime series from Cinemax, she plays Daisy “Jett” Kowalski, a former master thief who gets pulled back into a life of crime just when she thought she was out. And one of the powerfu

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REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli

Tonight’s is a shouldn’t-miss episode: George Will opens the show, and Martin Short closes it.

2019

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IZOMBIE By David Bianculli

Tonight’s episode is called “Filleted to Rest,” and has Liv (Rose McIver) temporarily becoming an impatient perfectionist after snacking on the brains of a murder victim found dead in a trendy and high-intensity restaurant kitchen.

2019

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BASKETS By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Season 4 begins with an episode called “Cat People” – which has nothing to do with the familiar movie premise. Well, not much. But it does feature its share of cats, and homes, and why Chip is planning to leave his… home, that is.

2019

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THE SUCCESSES AND LOSSES OF A PROLIFIC PLAYWRIGHT ON "AMERICAN MASTERS" WITH 'TERRENCE MCNALLY: EVERY ACT OF LIFE' By Mike Hughes

Twice now, prominent actresses have pulled Terrence McNally aside to tell him something important: He was making a big, lunkheaded mistake...

2019

Jun

'ROLLING THUNDER REVUE: A BOB DYLAN STORY' BRINGS BACK AN EXCITING AND HISTORIC TOUR By David Hinckley

In case you hadn’t noticed, the only person in the music biz who doesn’t want to explain Bob Dylan is Bob Dylan...

2019

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ROLLING THUNDER REVUE: A BOB DYLAN STORY BY MARTIN SCORSESE By David Bianculli

MUSIC DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: In 1974, the then-reclusive Bob Dylan embarked on a comeback reunion tour of sorts, joining with his “Basement Tapes” cohorts The Band on a high-intensity, high-volume national tour. I saw one leg of that tour, at a January 1974 concert in the Everglades in Hollywood, FL. The following year, Dylan gathered a new set of cohorts, and began what he called the Rolling Thunder Revue. At first, it was an ad hoc adventure on a rather small scale, then morphed int

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