DAVID BIANCULLI

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2020
Mar
6
 
 
Next week, NBC doubles up on Lincoln Rhyme, presenting the season’s final two episodes in a special two-parter. So tonight’s episode, I guess, can be considered the show’s next-to-penultimate installment…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Mar
6
 
 
Gee, any interesting breaking news for Bill Maher to address this week? Other than Joe Biden’s rise, so many other candidates’ withdrawals, and the spread of the current pandemic, it’s been a fairly slow week…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Mar
5
 
 
Making tech billionaires into villains for purposes of TV drama isn't a tough sell. Devs...doesn't waste time in letting us know that its Big Bad is Forest (Nick Offerman), the calculating bossman at a tech giant...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Mar
5
 
 
MINISERIES PREMIERE: This new eight-part sci-fi drama comes from FX – it’s an FX Production appearing first, and exclusively, on Hulu, in what is a new, occasional occurrence billed as “FX on Hulu.” More to the point, Devs is written, directed and executive produced by Alex Garland, writer and director of Ex Machina. It looks appropriately and impressively futuristic, and stars Nick Offerman as Forest, head of a very secretive and envelope-pushing tech
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Mar
5
 
 
Tonight TCM presents another carefully curated double future – so carefully, it’s a double double. The first movie, at 8 p.m. ET, is 1957’s Paths of Glory, and the second, at 9:45 p.m. ET, is 1960’s Spartacus. Both star Kirk Douglas, and that would be enough to justify, and dive into, this particular twin bill. But both of these films, in addition to having the same star, have the same director: Stanley Kubrick.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Mar
5
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: It’s now Season 4 of Pamela Adlon’s FX series showcase, and she’s managed to keep capturing slices of life as a single mother, parenting three increasingly individual daughters. Adlon created this show, and stars in and directs it as well, and has evolved Better Things into an even better show – one that finds its beauty, and even its meaning, in the unexpectedly small, seemingly arbitrary moments.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Mar
5
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: More strange stuff, more intriguing animated and live-action shorts – all coming from one of the most varied, and intelligent, anthology shows since The Great American Dream Machine.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Mar
5
 
 
There's a new streaming service – yes, another one – out there. Or you might call it a semi-service – a hub to something that was already there. Either way, FX on Hulu is a major player...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Mar
5
 
 
The long life and wondrous career of Kirk Douglas will be celebrated on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) today, Wed., March 5, with some of the best-known films airing at night...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
Mar
5
 
 
Here is the precise opposite of typecasting: In Devs, Nick Offerman plays someone who masters the wispy world of computer dimensions...