DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

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MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

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GARY EDGERTON

TOM BRINKMOELLER

GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
 
 
 
2018
Feb
16
 
 
The fourth movement, er, season of Mozart in the Jungle maintains the breezy charm that’s made it one of the most enjoyable binges in streaming land...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
14
 
 
A lot of shows bill themselves as unusual love stories and to be fair, a lot of them are. You’ve still never seen one quite like This Close...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
13
 
 
Eight decades before September 11, another terrorist struck an unnervingly similar blow at what was considered another symbol of America’s evil economic tyranny: Wall Street...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
12
 
 
Think of HBO’s Atomic Homefront as Erin Brockovich without the happy ending...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
11
 
 
Finely attuned, as always, to the mood of the moment, this season’s Homeland is putting America first...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
11
 
 
If you hired a mad scientist to write This Is Us, you might end up with something like HBO’s new Here and Now...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
10
 
 
Considering that he’s widely revered as one of the greatest rock ‘n’ roll guitarists ever, Eric Clapton has maintained a remarkably low celebrity profile over the last half century...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
7
 
 
Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, best known to casual fans as the site of the good-time beach resort Cancun, turns out to harbor a raft of surprising clues about deeper matters like the history of humankind...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
6
 
 
The new PBS documentary The Gilded Age starts off exactly where the title seems to point: toward rich people in expensive clothes savoring sumptuous food. Soon, however, it digs into a different and far less glamorous side...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
Feb
5
 
 
The best sitcoms are never purely star vehicles...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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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