DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

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2019
Jun
16
 
 
Way before Beverly Hills, 90210 or Gossip Girl, screwed-up teenagers were providing reliably fertile ground for television shows. Euphoria takes the concept to a new level...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
16
 
 
A passing reference leaves its mark in Episode 3 of HBO’s aggressively graphic Euphoria...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
16
 
 
It takes just over 34 minutes for City on a Hill, a new drama revolving around the criminal justice system in Boston in the early 1990s, to reach the words “Whitey Bulger.” ...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
15
 
 
Strolling through the summer TV line-up can feel like a trip to a perverse flea market...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
15
 
 
The trouble with English cops – at least, the TV ones – is they're so unrelentingly cooperative...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
15
 
 
It’s Day 3 at Pebble Beach, where there are plenty of stories, and players to root for, after two days of play. The leader going into the weekend is Gary Woodland, a U.S. player atop the field with a two-day score of nine under par. Tiger Woods, who missed the weekend cut for the PGA Tournament after winning the Masters, is nine strokes back, at even par. And Brooks Koepka, who won this year’s PGA by a wide margin, is five strokes behind the lead with a score of four under par. If Ko
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
14
 
 
James Corden is one of the all-time great live show hosts, and last Sunday’s Tony Awards (June 8th) was no exception. During a commercial break he looked for a willing audience member to quickly perform his now well-known karaoke segments...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
14
 
 
Daisy “Jett” Kowalski is one of the lucky inmates who comes out of prison with a skill that’s marketable in the free world. Unfortunately, it’s the same skill that put her in prison in the first place...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
14
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: Stana Katic returns for Season 2 of this moody character drama, which has her portraying a woman still haunted by memories of her time being held captive, chained and abused by a sadistic kidnapper. Imagine The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, then erase the laughs…And starting today, the misery continues, with a second season of psychological sadness.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Jun
14
 
 
SERIES PREMIERE: This new crime series – and that’s hardly its only genre description, since its tone and content are so weird – is from Nicholas Winding Refn, who takes for apparent inspiration pieces from David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino, but removes all the music and most of the quirky characters. The pace is so deliberately slow, it makes Michelangelo Antonioni’s movies seem like they’re on fast-forward, and Refn, the Danish filmmaker who also directed The Neon