The Audience Network’s latest offbeat romantic adventure series, You Me Her, creates a number of profound life choices for its characters. It also creates some choices for the viewer...

2016

Mar

'FAKING IT' PRODUCER FEEDS ON FRIENDSHIPS WITH WEAK SPOTS By David Hinckley

Perhaps the most interesting argument on TV this spring unfolds between Amy and Karma, two high school best friends on MTV’s Faking It. Producer Carter Covington explains...

2016

Mar

ATO ESSANDOH ON 'VINYL' AND THE SLOW FADE OUT OF RACIAL INEQUALITY By David Hinckley

Of course racial tension is going to complicate the new HBO series Vinyl, says Ato Essandoh. If we can’t figure out the racial thing in real life, how could we possibly avoid it in a high-octane drama about the chaotic music business of the 1970s?...

2016

Mar

WELLIVER REVELS IN THE FLAWS OF HARRY BOSCH, ANOTHER TOUGH GUY ROLE By David Hinckley

L.A. Detective Harry Bosch, as played by Titus Welliver, figures he can beat most criminals. Overcoming himself is a different kettle of demons, and that’s the adversary Harry is confronting in the second season of the taut and engaging series Bosch, which just dropped on Amazon...

2016

Mar

'NASHVILLE' IS SOAP, SO HERE IS WHAT THE WEDDING MIGHT MEAN By David Hinckley

Nothing says “Thank you!” to the fans of a TV show like a wedding between two of their favorite, most sympathetic characters...

2016

Mar

FX'S 'THE AMERICANS' SURVIVES AND THRIVES, JOINING SOME OF THE BEST By David Hinckley

Okay, I confess: FX’s The Americans has maintained its death-defying tension longer and better than I thought it could...

2016

Mar

A NEW 'CRIMINAL MINDS' TAKES US 'BEYOND BORDERS' FOR ITS CRIME OF THE WEEK By David Hinckley

An innocent bystander that could get clipped by our current barrage of complex TV crime/adventure thrillers is good old-fashioned procedurals like CBS’s new Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders...

2016

Mar

AUSSIE CRIME DRAMA 'JANET KING' DEBUTS ON ACORN By David Hinckley

Janet King seems to live in a state of perpetual exasperation. As played by Marta Dusseldorp, she wears it well...

2016

Mar

CASELLA SHAPES THE SOUND OF THE MUSIC OF 'VINYL' By David Hinckley

Thanks to the new HBO show Vinyl, Max Casella is getting a do-over on the music of the 1970s. The first time around, when he was growing up in Cambridge, Mass., he was listening to family records and the radio...

2016

Mar

'AND THEN THERE WERE NONE' UNFOLDS SLOWLY ON LIFETIME By David Hinckley

And Then There Were None, the latest retelling of Agatha Christie’s most famous crime mystery novel, delivers 10 killings in record time. But not the record you might think...

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David Hinckley

David Hinckley first grasped the power of television when, at the age of 8, he bullied his parents into buying a basset hound like Cleo on The People’s Choice. He named her Cleo. Somewhat more recently, he worked for 35 years at The New York Daily News, the last seven covering television.

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