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TVWW ARCHIVE

Contributors Archive
 
 
2017
Oct
15
THE SECOND SEASON OF ‘GOOD BEHAVIOR’ PREMIERES By David Hinckley
 
 
TV’s baddest rom-com, Good Behavior, returns Sunday with our principals, if possible, more schizophrenic than ever...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
15
‘ACCEPTABLE RISK’ IS THE LATEST ADDICTIVE MYSTERY By David Hinckley
 
 
If you really, really, really don’t need one more TV show to occupy more of your life, don’t start watching the murder mystery Acceptable Risk, because once you do, it’s devilishly hard to stop...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
15
'MAKE IT OUT ALIVE' OFTEN GOES TOO FAR TO MAKE ITS POINT By David Hinckley
 
 
The raw stories of human survival, or sometimes failure to survive, give Smithsonian’s new Make It Out Alive series a dramatic edge that’s hard to resist...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
13
THE ADVENT OF THE STUDY OF THE CRIMINAL’S MIND IN ‘MINDHUNTER’ By David Hinckley
 
 
Through no design of the producers, Netflix’s new Mindhunter series takes on a renewed and disturbing urgency from the recent murders in Las Vegas...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
13
GRAB ONTO ‘THIRD RAIL WITH OZY’ ON PBS By David Hinckley
 
 
If you think the last thing TV, America or the world needs is another panel show yelling about current events, you are a sane and rational person...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
11
SEASON 2 OF ‘CHASE’ ARRIVES ON HULU By David Hinckley
 
 
If you thought Hugh Laurie couldn’t find a psychologically darker role than Gregory House, you need to catch up with Hulu’s Chance...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
9
THE RETURN OF ‘SUPERGIRL’ AND THE OFF-CAMERA WORK OF MON-EL, CHRIS WOOD By David Hinckley
 
 
The situation with Supergirl’s squeeze is up in the air, so to speak, when her TV show returns to the CW...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
9
‘VALOR’ IS FILLED WITH MELODRAMA By David Hinckley
 
 
The season of the soldier marches on, with the CW’s new Valor offering yet another angle on American fighting forces vs. sneering radical terrorists...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
7
THE STORY OF ‘SPIELBERG’ ON HBO By David Hinckley
 
 
Because we know how good Steven Spielberg is at making movies about other people, it also becomes entertaining to watch his selfies...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2017
Oct
6
SEASON 2 OF ‘VERSAILLES’ CONTINUES TO EXAMINE THE INTRIGUING LOUIS XIV By David Hinckley
 
 
Television’s gallery of egocentric, outrageous and history-changing rulers from the last millennium has welcomed a new addition: King Louis XIV of France...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
New From TVWW

PBS' 'Frontline’ Examines Pension Promises and — Spoiler Alert — Finds the Math Doesn’t Add Up
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
The Decadence of ‘Versailles’ Comes to Ovation
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
Prescribing Mamie Gummer in 'Emily Owens, M.D.'
By Ed Bark
 
 
 
 
Looking for a Free Ride? HBO Can Deliver
By Christy Slewinski
 
 
 
 
'Pass the Biscuits' Part of the Hatfield-McCoy Pop-Culture Legacy
By Noel Holston
 
 
 
 

Dispatches From TVWW

'Extinction: The Facts' is a Sobering Call to Action
By David Hinckley
 
 
 
 
How 'Mayans' Has Been Influenced by the Show's Creator Elgin James
By Mike Hughes
 
 
 
 
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Take on Ernest Hemingway, the Man and the Myth
By Alex Strachan
 
 
 
 
In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self
By Monique Nazareth
 
 
 
 
Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption
By David Hinckley