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All Along the Watchtower

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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2021
Mar
31
THIS IS THE END, MY FRIENDS, AND YET NOT THE END By Alex Strachan
 
 
I did not have a TV when I grew up. The family moved from city to city, country to country — a life on the road, constantly on the move...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Mar
29
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS: KEN BURNS AND LYNN NOVICK TAKE ON ERNEST HEMINGWAY, THE MAN AND THE MYTH By Alex Strachan
 
 
The sun also sets on literary reputations, especially when a famous writer's flamboyant lifestyle and personal peccadilloes threaten to overwhelm the work for which he became famous...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Mar
3
SPORTS AND POLITICS WALK A FINE LINE IN NETFLIX PELÉ DOCUMENTARY By Alex Strachan
 
 
Soccer's greatest legends: Diego Maradona, Lionel Messi, Neymar, and now Kylian Mbappé. Above them all, though, one name stands out...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Mar
1
THEY DO IT WITH MIRRORS: HOW 'THE HANDMAID'S TALE' AND REAL LIFE INTERSECT By Alex Strachan
 
 
Real life intruded briefly on the made-up world of TV drama this past week..
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
21
'PRISTINE SEAS' AN ELOQUENT STATEMENT FOR CLEANER OCEANS, AND A PLEA FOR US TO DO MORE By Alex Strachan
 
 
Out of sight is not necessarily out of mind...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
9
'FRONTLINE' IS ON THE FRONT LINE OF WHERE PBS WANTS TO BE DURING THE COMING YEAR, PBS CEO VOWS By Alex Strachan
 
 
Just as there are known knowns and known unknowns, there are facts, and then there are non-facts. And then there are alternative facts. Or are there?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Feb
2
PBS' 'FRONTLINE' REVEALS 'CHINA'S COVID SECRETS' IN THOUGHTFUL, EYE-OPENING EXPOSÉ By Alex Strachan
 
 
Borat called it the Wuhan flu. A certain national leader kept referring to it as "the China virus." And news headlines of late have been describing the hoops the World Health Organization is having to jump through...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
30
THE WORLD IS WAITING: PHIL KEOGHAN ON THE FUTURE OF 'THE AMAZING RACE' By Alex Strachan
 
 
The 33rd cycle of The Amazing Race was good to go, and go it did. The latest running of the 10-time Emmy Award-winning around-the-world challenge burst out of the starting gate as scheduled last February...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2021
Jan
20
NETFLIX'S 'CALL MY AGENT!' IS BACK, THIS TIME WITH SIGOURNEY WEAVER IN THE MIX By Alex Strachan
 
 
Call My Agent! is the anti-Entourage...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
New From TVWW

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'
By Ed Bark
 
 
 
 
Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver
By Christy Slewinski
 
 
 
 
'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy
By Noel Holston
 
 
 
 

Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
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