Last week’s Season 3 premiere ended with Caleb, the hapless human played by Aaron Paul, coming to the aid of a badly wounded Dolores, the ruthless android warrior played by Evan Rachel Wood. Tonight, they team up – but for what? And against whom? Meanwhile, the show’s attention shifts from the outside “real world” back to the park. But it’s no vacation.

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On Homeland in this final season, things have gotten more and more dire, people are dying quickly and unexpectedly, and everywhere you turn, the news is bad, and the government is in chaos. Isn’t it nice to find a TV show where you can escape and forget about your real-world troubles for an hour?

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CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM By David Bianculli

SEASON FINALE: Last week, when Larry David was preparing to open his “spite store,” Latte Larry’s, Ted Danson popped in for a sneak preview – and was impressed not only by the coffee shop’s tables that didn’t wobble, but also by the fact that every table was equipped with a bottle of hand sanitizer. Both these features made it into Larry’s show-within-the-show “commercials” for Latte Larry’s. And these shows were filmed before

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DARK PHOENIX By David Bianculli

This 2019 movie entry in the Marvel X-Men universe was a relative disappointment, creatively as well as at the box office. The original comic-book arc on which it’s based, Chris Claremont’s “Dark Phoenix Saga” in which powerful mental mutant Jean Grey turns evil, is one of the most famous narratives in Marvel history. So getting it right should have been more of a priority, but Dark Phoenix, to succeed, might have required being darker than the Marvel

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WAIT UNTIL DARK By David Bianculli

Alan Arkin has an actor’s field day in this 1967 film adaptation of the Frederick Knott play, but I can’t tell you why without ruining one of this drama’s many surprises. So just tune in and watch – and turn off as many lights in your house as possible. Audrey Hepburn plays a blind woman who eventually becomes the target of a group of thieves and a home invasion. Suspense? Absolutely. Clever, intense, intimate direction? Absolutely – and it’s by Ter

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GREMLINS By David Bianculli

Chris Columbus wrote this 1984 horror comedy, and Joe Dante directed it, and both of them had a blast. Gizmo and his cuddly friends are very cute, but only if you obey the rules – which are largely ignored. Stars include Phoebe Cates, Zach Galligan, Corey Feldman, and some noteworthy supporting players. The character named “Mr. Jones” is played by Chuck Jones, animator extraordinare – and Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul fans can watch for a younger J

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THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS COMEDY HOUR By David Bianculli

Tonight’s repeat of a classic Comedy Hour episode is from Season 3, when Tom and Dick Smothers were experimenting with thinking almost exclusively of the new generation. Gone, basically, were the days of cross-generational guest stars, with Bette Davis and The Who on the same bill. Instead, this 1968 installment features a young comic named George Carlin, a young improv group called The Committee (with Howard Hesseman, later of WKRP in Cincinnati), and a young rock grou

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BIANCULLI'S BINGE TIPS By TV WW

David Bianculli, founder of TV Worth Watching, provides his recommendations on binging tips during this time of home stays and social distancing…

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OCTAVIA SPENCER STARS IN 'SELF-MADE,' THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF MADAM C.J. WALKER By David Hinckley

We know where the story of Madam C.J. Walker is going. At the time of her death in 1919, no woman in America had earned more money on her own...

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THE ENGLISH GAME By David Bianculli

SERIES PREMIERE: This new Netflix series is like a Chariots of Fire for soccer, or the United Kingdom “football” equivalent of David E. Kelley’s Mystery, Alaska, where a small-town team of hockey players challenged the more established franchise for a game for pride and honor. The English Game is a drama series about the origins of British football, and how it came from, and was reclaimed by, working-class rural enthusiasts. There’s a bit of&

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