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2018

Jun

JUST IN TIME FOR AWARDS SEASON: ON ‘THE AMERICANS’ AND SERIES FINALES By Alex Strachan

Endings are hard. We know this. They’re even harder, perhaps, when they have to put an exclamation mark on an entire series...

2018

Jun

ANTHONY BOURDAIN ON A LIFE HARD-LIVED: ‘ANOTHER TATTOO, ANOTHER THING YOU DID. ANOTHER PLACE YOU’VE BEEN’ By Alex Strachan

Is it possible to be both shaken and stirred at the same time? I know that feeling today...

2018

Jun

TV REMAKES: BEEN THERE, SEEN THAT — NOT THAT THERE’S NECESSARILY ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT By Alex Strachan

To hear some people tell it, the upcoming 2018-19 network TV season is the Year of the Remake — and they’re not far wrong...

2018

May

‘THE HANDMAID’S TALE’ AFTER MARGARET ATWOOD’S NOVEL: A FUTURE IMPERFECT FORETOLD By Alex Strachan

The Handmaid’s Tale isn’t treading uncharted emotional territory as it reaches the midpoint of its harrowing, nerve-inducing second season — not exactly, anyway...

2018

May

PBS' 'NATURE' SEASON FINALE: HOW HONEY BUN AND A CONSERVATIONIST FROM CALIFORNIA ARE FIGHTING TO PROTECT 'THE WORLD’S MOST WANTED ANIMAL' By Alex Strachan

Even by Nature’s standards, the pangolin is one weird critter...

2018

May

WHEN NOSTALGIA CLASHES WITH CONTEMPORARY REALITY: RECONCILING ‘I, SPY’ WITH BILL COSBY By Alex Strachan

It’s one of the toughest questions there is, as a fan. How do you separate an actor from the character he, or she, plays on TV? Can you separate the two? Is it even right to try to separate the two?...

2018

Apr

PBS FRONTLINE’S ‘BLACKOUT IN PUERTO RICO’: TALES OF SOUND, FURY, SKULLDUGGERY By Alex Strachan

It might be hard for the last one out to please turn off the lights if the lights aren’t on to begin with...

2018

Apr

PBS' 'FRONTLINE' PORTRAIT OF ‘MCCAIN' IS A POLITICIAN DETERMINED TO SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER By Alex Strachan

Given the present state of affairs-of-state, one could be forgiven for thinking Arizona Sen. John Sidney McCain III is old news...

2018

Apr

PBS'S 'FRONTLINE,' "TRUMP’S TAKEOVER," SCRUTINIZES THE ‘FAUSTIAN BARGAIN’ BETWEEN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND DONALD TRUMP By Alex Strachan

How did he do it? How exactly did Donald John Trump seize control of the Republican Party — “a hostile takeover,” as one political insider describes it...

2018

Mar

IN PRAISE OF ‘THE AMERICANS’ AND WHAT IT REVEALED ABOUT RUSSIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS DURING THE REAGAN YEARS By Alex Strachan

First of all, no spoilers. Not here, anyway...

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Alex Strachan

Alex Strachan has written extensively about television since 1995. He was the staff television critic for The Vancouver Sun from June 1995 to 2003. Prior to that, he was a general-assignment reporter and sportswriter at the Sun, which he originally joined in 1979. He became the national TV critic for Canada’s Postmedia News chain, or Canwest Global Communications as it was then called, in September 2003. He wrote for the chain from 2003-15, during which time his stories appeared regularly on Canada.com and in such daily papers as the National Post, Vancouver Sun, Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen and Calgary Herald. In recent years, his writing has focused more on media analysis and industry trends than celebrity profiles and background features, but he still finds time to watch The Voice and The Amazing Race, not to mention guilty pleasures like Banshee and Amazon Hotel. Alex's personal website focuses on his concern for the world around us through his stunning photographs from his world travels. In addition, check out Alex's blog on his site which he tries to update every two days or so. You can also follow Alex @astrachanideas

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