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2019
Nov
26
 
 
When I first sat down to watch Green Eggs and Ham (Netflix), I felt a bit like the guy in the book: doubtful that I would like it...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
26
 
 
The Rebecca Eaton era is ending at Masterpiece. It has been, well, mostly masterful...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
26
 
 
On the eve of the holiday we Americans traditionally celebrate by rounding up all family members, even the ones we don't really want to see, we’re getting a subtle gift from overseas...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
25
 
 
Once upon a time, if you wanted to convey that a television character was a little wild or a little raffish, you gave that character a cigarette. For a variety of reasons – all of them good – that's become more problematic...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
25
 
 
Bob and Abishola aren’t even a couple yet, and already they’re part of a potential romantic triangle. An old suitor of Abishola’s, played by Tony Tambi, re-enters the picture, asking Abishola for a second chance. How can Bob compete – or can he?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
25
 
 
In this week’s episode, we finally spend time with two long-awaited elements of this HBO series: the armor-plated polar bear, and the intrepid adventurer played by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Only one of them arrives courtesy of CGI special effects – but rest assured. So long as I’m aware, no Lin-Manuel Mirandas were hurt in the making of this TV show.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
25
 
 
Up until 20 or 30 years ago, education was considered a standard component in prison rehabilitation programs...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
24
 
 
Last month, the long-running Treehouse of Horror franchise of The Simpsons completed three decades of annual installments, presenting Treehouse of Horror XXX, in which the individual segments poked fun at Stranger Things, The Shape of Water, and Heaven Can Wait. Today, Fox inaugurates what may be a new holiday tradition of anything-goes anthology Simpsons stories, this time built around Thanksgiving. Yes, it’s the first Thank
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
24
 
 
In my opinion, this 1987 William Goldman adaptation of his own book, directed by Rob Reiner and starring Mandy Patinkin, Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Wallace Shawn, Andre the Giant, Billy Crystal and Carol Kane, is The Wizard of Oz of its generation – the finest family movie made since that 1939 classic. And yes, I really mean it. Anybody want a peanut?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Nov
24
 
 
Here’s a real TV rarity: Tonight on DECADES, the ABC 1966-67 camp fantasy series The Green Hornet, presented as a spinoff of sorts from the contemporaneous, equally camp Batman, is shown in its entirety, in one long 26-episode marathon, beginning at 8 p.m. ET. Van Williams stars as the masked crimefighter – by day, a well-to-do newspaper publisher named Britt Reid – but the big draw here is Reid’s valet and chauffeur, Kato, a kung fu expert who also se