In the opening episode of Sorry For Your Loss, we never learn why Matt Greer (Mamoudou Athie) died at a tragically young age. We only know that he’s gone and that his wife Leigh (Elizabeth Olsen) has watched her own life shatter into a thousand pieces...

2018

Sep

'INSIDE THE MANSON CULT: THE LOST TAPES' DOESN'T OFFER MUCH NEW By David Hinckley

A new Fox documentary on the late mass murderer Charles Manson reinforces, perhaps not by choice, the near-certainty that there may be little more to know or say about him...

2018

Sep

THE TRAGIC YET HOPEFUL STORY OF 'THE OSLO ACCORDS' ON HBO By David Hinckley

A quarter-century after they nearly happened, the Oslo Accords have largely become another footnote in the frustrating quest for Arab-Israeli peace in the Middle East...

2018

Sep

A PROGRAM THAT ENCOURAGES YOU TO PLAY ALONG: PBS' 'THE GREAT AMERICAN READ' By David Hinckley

If any campaign can cross party lines this summer, it should be the one PBS has launched: It wants us to read books...

2018

Sep

'THE MINIATURIST' IS AS BEAUTIFUL AS IT IS CRYPTIC By David Hinckley

A dozen scenes in The Miniaturist, the TV adaptation of Jessie Burton’s best-selling 2014 novel, look as if they could have been photoshopped directly from a Vermeer painting...

2018

Sep

'THE DEUCE' RETURNS, A FEW YEARS AHEAD By David Hinckley

For sheer non-stop action, not even an Ultimate Fighting showdown can match the Tenderloin district of New York in the 1970s...

2018

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'REL' COULD BE ONE OF THE FIRST OF THE FALL SHOWS TO FALL By David Hinckley

Lil Rel Howery isn’t the first standup comedian to mix elements of his life with elements of his act and serve it up as a sitcom. He also isn’t the first for whom the recipe doesn’t quite work out...

2018

Sep

'IRON FIST' IS STILL STRUGGLING ON NETFLIX By David Hinckley

Marvel still hasn’t quite figured out what to do with Iron Fist...

2018

Sep

'THE PURGE' IS A WORRISOME CHOICE TO AIR IN SUCH UNEASY TIMES By David Hinckley

Most people agree that the way to enhance the quality of life on Earth doesn’t involve thinning the herd...

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