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2020
May
27
 
 
This day in 1994 marked the last telecast of the syndicated late-night talker, The Arsenio Hall Show...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
27
 
 
STREAMING SERVICE LAUNCH: It’s neither HBO Go nor HBO Now – though, if you have either of those, they should, theoretically, shift or allow free access to HBO Max, the new streaming service rolled out today. Its biggest draw is its large backlog of series and movies, both from HBO and elsewhere. (From this point on, for a while, HBO Max is the only streaming site on which you can see all of Friends.) There also are HBO Max originals being unveiled today, from children&rsquo
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
27
 
 
MINISERIES FINALE: Today brings Episode 9 of Mrs. America, which is the final installment in this story of the initial attempts to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. As with the opening episode, Cate Blanchett takes center stage as anti-ERA activist Phyllis Schlafly – but the episode it titled “Reagan,” evoking the era if not the man himself.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
27
 
 
MINISERIES FINALE: Lee lost. Grant won. That was in yesterday’s Part 2. Tonight, it’s the post-war story, and what happens to Ulysses S. Grant as he prepares his memoirs… which Mark Twain wants to publish. For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
27
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This final season of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. propels the team back to Earth, but shifts time as well as space: It’s the Earth of the 1930s, when Agent Coulson, Daisy and the other S.H.I.E.L.D. stalwarts must defeat an extraterrestrial enemy, avoid a disastrous time paradox – and, given the time period, perhaps encounter a teenage, pre-bulked Steve Rogers, before he enlists to fight the Nazis and is transformed into the original Captain America
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
27
 
 
In tonight’s episode, Nadja and Lazslo venture into a dangerous new environment: open mic night at a local nightclub. And the two vampire lovers have an old musical number they’re dusting off for the occasion… "You're So Vein," perhaps?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
26
 
 
Standing face-to-face with a racist, filmmaker Andrew Goldberg found something surprising: He sort of liked him. “He’s a very likable guy...We had an interesting friendship.”...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
26
 
 
From 1978 to 1985, the BBC spent seven years producing new TV productions of every play William Shakespeare ever wrote. I reviewed them, as a TV critic, as all 37 were released stateside by PBS – and expected to see them repeated on TV from then on. Instead, they all but vanished. Until now, when Britbox is making all of them available for streaming beginning today. Helen Mirren is in two of my very favorites from this BBC run: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and As You Like
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
26
 
 
Episode 2. Granted, the reenactments in this new History documentary about Ulysses S. Grant often are problematic. But the history being retold here is captivating, and inarguably valid and valuable.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2020
May
26
 
 
This 1989 movie is a super-stylized horror film – as much a character study of delusional aberrant behavior as of being in thrall of an alleged vampire. And it’s the acting that makes it work so well, led by Jennifer Beals as the potentially undead femme fatale, and Nicolas Cage as the man whose cinematic and gothic influences go all the way back to Nosferatu.