DAVID BIANCULLI

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2017
Jan
29
 
 
Agatha Christie’s The Witness for the Prosecution has been around the block a few times since its original publication as Traitor Hands back in 1925...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
26
 
 
Mary Tyler Moore never actually worked for a real-life local TV news team. It just seemed that way because of her indelible role as indomitable Mary Richards of Minneapolis’ WJM-TV...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
26
 
 
Heisting storylines from both Twin Peaks and Dawson’s Creek, The CW’s Riverdale gives the venerable G-rated Archie Comics the most extreme makeover since Joaquin Phoenix went this way and that...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
21
 
 
Wanna get away from it all without succumbing to the slogan of a certain airline? Lifetime’s re-do of Beaches provides a suitably weepy, sometimes sappy, overall entertaining escape...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
18
 
 
Could it be true, though, that this dourest of FX comedies also sucker punches its loyalists with a little heart and humanity? Yes, that’s right...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
15
 
 
At the close of Homeland’s Season 5, CIA heroine Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) seemingly pulled the plug on the comatose Peter Quinn after reading his love letter to her. But the room brightened as she did so, signaling something or other...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
14
 
 
Holy smokes, what will American audiences make of The Young Pope, which already has been underway in Italy since late October?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
10
 
 
Tom Hardy conveys menace with the ease of Jimmy Fallon conveying love to any and all of his late night guests. So that’s certainly not the problem with FX’s explicitly profane Taboo...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
7
 
 
It’s highly unfortunate, to say the least, that startling events prompted HBO to move up the premiere of this intimate documentary. It’s also commendable to do so...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Jan
6
 
 
Skepticism prevailed when Norman Lear let it be known, at a summer 2015 Television Critics Association panel, that “we’re talking about doing a Latina version of One Day At a Time. That could happen.” Yeah, like that was gonna happen...