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2020
Mar
13
LINCOLN RHYME: HUNT FOR THE BONE COLLECTOR By David Bianculli
 
 
SEASON FINALE: The season’s last two episodes of Lincoln Rhyme are presented tonight on NBC, televised as a two-parter. Will the series, and the story, continue beyond these episodes? The network hasn’t decided – but it wouldn’t surprise me, when NBC in a few months assembles its projected schedule for next fall, that its plans include neither Rhyme nor reason.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Mar
13
REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER By David Bianculli
 
 
Tonight’s live episode of Real Time will be especially captivating to watch for two reasons. One, so much news regarding reactions to the spreading coronavirus has broken the past few days that Maher, commenting on it in and on Real Time, should have an awful lot to say. And two, will he be performing in front of his usual studio audience – or, like this Sunday’s Joe Boden and Bernie Sanders at their Democratic debate, without benefit of a crowd?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Mar
13
A CREEPY BUT WELL-DONE VERSION OF CHRISTIE'S 'THE PALE HORSE' ON AMAZON PRIME By David Hinckley
 
 
Agatha Christie stories, always tense and scary, don't often get as downright eerie as the new TV version of The Pale Horse...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Mar
12
DEVS By David Bianculli
 
 
This FX on Hulu series – yes, it’s on Hulu, but it’s from FX, if that makes any sense – continues tonight with Episode 3, the first of its now weekly installments since last year’s double-decker launch. Nick Offerman gives a career-best role as Forest, a somewhat inscrutable Silicon Valley visionary – and the idea that’s unveiled in this series, regarding the top-secret project behind the “Devs” development drawbridge of the mysteri
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Mar
12
FULL METAL JACKET By David Bianculli
 
 
Stanley Kubrick directed this 1987 movie, a Vietnam film so stylized, it fits nicely into the Kubrick canon. Matthew Modine stars throughout – but in the opening half, R. Lee Ermey as the sergeant, and Vincent D’Onofrio as the private who is his favorite target, are unforgettably good. 
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Mar
11
MODERN FAMILY By David Bianculli
 
 
The finale for ABC’s Modern Family is only a month away – and the network is giving viewers a chance this week to mini-binge, by showing a clump of repeat episodes in prime time tonight. This is a TV family it’s always fun to spend time with, so enjoy the visit.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Mar
10
MARC MARON: END TIMES FUN By David Bianculli
 
 
The co-star of Netflix’s GLOW, and the star of his own WTF podcast, steps out in this standup comedy special, called End Times Fun. And he called it End Times, and taped it, before the headlines of the past few weeks.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Mar
10
JIMI HENDRIX By David Bianculli
 
 
This 1973 documentary was made only a few years after the famed guitarist’s death at age 27 in 1969. As such, the perspective is a close one – but my, the music.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Mar
10
MONTEREY POP By David Bianculli
 
 
D.A. Pennebaker directed this 1968 film about that year’s Monterey Pop Festival – the California music fair that set the stage for Woodstock, and that served as a launching pad for such talents as Janis Joplin, Otis Redding, The Who – and Jimi Hendrix, making this a real Purple Haze of an afternoon TCM double feature.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Mar
10
'NARCOS: MEXICO' + 'ZEROZEROZERO' = FAMILIAR, YET GRIPPING JUST THE SAME By Alex Strachan
 
 
And then there were two. Or perhaps 22. Who knows anymore? ZeroZeroZero landed mere days after the second season of Narcos: Mexico on Netflix, and it's becoming hard to keep track...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action
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How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James
By Mike Hughes
 
 
 
 
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self
By Monique Nazareth
 
 
 
 
Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption
By David Hinckley