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2016
Oct
8
 
 
HBO’s Divorce isn’t the kind of television comedy for which Thomas Haden Church remains best-known, and he couldn’t be happier about that...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Oct
7
 
 

In at least one sense, the debate over raising the minimum wage is as simple as political questions can get...

 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Oct
5
 
 
When Raimy Sullivan fiddles with her father’s dusty old ham radio and hears his voice, she’s surprised. Probably because he died in 1996, which was 20 years ago...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Oct
4
 
 
The CW’s No Tomorrow unveils the latest clever disguise in which television tries to slip us a rom-com. Nor does the network need to apologize. No Tomorrow is winning and endearing...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Oct
3
 
 

I’m not sure we need to celebrate the point at which political commentary on television devolved into two people shouting at each other... But it’s worth acknowledging that moment, if only to satisfy our inner masochist, with a documentary on the 1968 quasi-debates between William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal....

 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Oct
3
 
 
Now here’s an optimistic premise: ABC’s new Conviction suggests that out of a gurgling swamp of political intrigue and double-dealing, something good could bubble to the surface...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Oct
2
 
 
Let me be the one writer apparently in the entire TV universe who isn’t blown away by HBO’s new adaptation of Westworld...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Oct
1
 
 
Television’s gallery of egocentric, outrageous and history-changing rulers from the last millennium is about to welcome a new addition: King Louis XIV of France...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Oct
1
 
 
When Mirabelle Harris first shows up in the new Amazon series The Kicks, it’s like, “Okay, the mean girl is in the house.” Then an odd thing happens. Isabella Acres, who plays Mirabelle, not only makes her sympathetic, but kind of cool...