DAVID BIANCULLI

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2016
Mar
17
 
 
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
17
 
 
Nothing says “Thank you!” to the fans of a TV show like a wedding between two of their favorite, most sympathetic characters...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Mar
16
 
 
Okay, I confess: FX’s The Americans has maintained its death-defying tension longer and better than I thought it could...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Mar
16
 
 
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
14
 
 
Janet King seems to live in a state of perpetual exasperation. As played by Marta Dusseldorp, she wears it well...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Mar
13
 
 
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
13
 
 
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...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Mar
12
 
 
Like most great singers, Billie Holiday never had to explain what she was singing about...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Mar
10
 
 

Who knew this would be such a fruitful TV year for sad clowns? Is it, like, another effect of El Niño? Will Arnett’s new Flaked, which drops Friday on Netflix, is comedy playing off against a story that’s deeply melancholy.

 
 
 
  
 
 
2016
Mar
9
 
 
Underground tackles what some have persuasively argued is the central moral dilemma of the whole American experience: slavery and what it says about our broader struggle with the noble concept of “all men are created equal.”...