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2016
May
31
 
 
Watching the new Roots, which would be one of the best TV things you could do this week, you’re reminded that in at least one important sense, it’s not about slavery at all. It’s about how individuals behave in a world where slavery happens to be an accepted institution...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
30
 
 
Our attention to Memorial Day gets spottier as more of our wars fall into grey areas, and PBS reflects that unease with TED Talks: War & Peace...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
29
 
 
If you’re ready for a short binge toward the end of the holiday weekend, you could do a lot worse than the Australian series Jack Irish, which has been brought to these shores by Acorn TV...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
27
 
 
The more you like country music, the more you’re apt to like "The Highwaymen: Friends Till The End," a PBS American Masters documentary...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
27
 
 
What Jessi Colter remembers about the Highwaymen is how sane and normal they so often were. How’s that for shattering a few myths?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
25
 
 
You can make a decent argument that in four seasons, ABC’s Nashville has said pretty much all of what it has to say. But if Wednesday’s episode is indeed the end of the series, I’m still going to miss it...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
24
 
 
New faces don’t mean things have gotten any kinder and gentler in the rustic town of Wayward Pines, Idaho...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
23
 
 
As a business plan, kidnapping so rarely works out. But that doesn’t always deter the desperate, and desperate seems to describe Frank Mallon in Clean Break...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
22
 
 
Adapting Garth Ennis’s Preacher for television has some of the same degree of difficulty as wrestling with God, so it’s impressive that after the first few episodes, the adapter team is still standing...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
May
21
 
 
The HBO Lyndon Johnson drama All the Way starts from the bold premise that the former President was larger than life, then proves it...