If you've watched the first two seasons of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, recommending that you watch the third season is like recommending that if you have a choice of Oreos, you go for the double-stuffed. There's nothing to think about, really...

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Dec

THE LATEST VIOLENT THRILLER IS HEADED BY ABIGAIL SPENCER ON 'REPRISAL' By David Hinckley

In a world where pretty much every disagreement is settled by brute force between large angry men, Doris Quinn might not seem like a fit...

2019

Dec

THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This Emmy-winning Amazon series returns for a new season at full speed, with a big splash, and with a Season 3 opener that had me laughing out loud several times during the hour. The setting, for most of it, is a USO tour performance, for which the still-on-the-rise Mrs. Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan, nailing every single scene) takes the stage in front of a gaggle of fevered servicemen, and charms them. Series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino both writes and directs the opener, which a

2019

Dec

REPRISAL By David Bianculli

Abigail Spencer, from Timeless, stars in this new Hulu series, a revenge drama in which she survives a horrible physical and mental attack, then takes methodical steps to target and punish her attackers. It may sound like the plot of an exploitation film, like I Spit On Your Grave – but Reprisal is much higher-minded than that. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower, and for background on the show, see Mike Hughes' Open Mike.

2019

Dec

WUTHERING HEIGHTS By David Bianculli

SPECIAL: Remember a few years ago, when TCM presented a long-lost live TV production of The Glass Menagerie, starring Shirley Booth? Well, tonight TCM is at it again – and good for them. This time, the once-lost, now-found Golden Age TV classic is a 1958 production of Wuthering Heights, starring Richard Burton and Rosemary Harris. Burton starred in it the year before appearing in the 1959 movie version of the John Osborne play, Look Back in Anger – which

2019

Dec

TALKING ABOUT THE POWER OF 'REPRISAL' AT TCA By Mike Hughes

People can fit any image they'd like. They can be dark leather or pink fluff, or both, switching from day-to-day...

2019

Dec

OCTAVIA SPENCER MUST REINVESTIGATE ON 'TRUTH BE TOLD' By David Hinckley

Few things are subtle in Truth Be Told, an unsettling new series about a journalist and her subject who are both looking for redemption...

2019

Dec

TELL ME A STORY By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: The concept of this series – taking fairy tales and adapting them as very modern allegorical dramas – was much better than its execution last year. But now, for Season 2, it has a new chance to reboot and readjust. The primary plot threads, this season, borrow from three very familiar stories: Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Beauty and the Beast. That last one puts a gender-reversal spin on it – a spin that looks a lot like a female Ph

2019

Dec

A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS By David Bianculli

This was yesterday’s Best TV Tomorrow video on TVWW, and today it’s not only the best of all Bianculli’s Best Bets, but the best Christmas special of the season, period. It doesn’t matter how many times you’ve seen this animated special, first telecast by CBS in 1965. Charles Schulz’s timeless Peanuts characters are worth watching, and embracing, again and again and again. And before I die, I hope to learn how to play “Linus

2019

Dec

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE CHRISTMAS SPECIAL By David Bianculli

It seems like only last week that NBC presented an SNL Thanksgiving special – hey, it was only last week! – and tonight, it presents its Christmas counterpart. But it’s a welcome holiday treat, because it’s bound to include not only Alec Baldwin talking about his particular brand of holiday goodies (“Schweddy balls”), but Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg singing about their particular brand of holiday gift-giving: “One, cut a hole i

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