Delayed from last week, this hour is scheduled to be about Ted Kennedy, Chappaquiddick and Mary Jo Kopechne – respectively, the politician driving the car that veered off a bridge and overturned in the water, the place of the accident, and the drowning victim who was the car’s only other passenger.

2019

May

FRONTLINE: "TRUMP'S TRADE WAR" By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: This is the Season 38 premiere of Frontline, a monumental feat that deserves a moment of silence – and awe. David Fanning’s documentary anthology series, like CBS’s 60 Minutes, has been so reliable and so informative for so long that it tends to be taken for granted. But since it deserves to inspire awe, let’s just call it awesome. Tonight’s opener analyzes the history and impact of President Donald Trump’s trade war policies. Check local list

2019

May

FOSSE/VERDON By David Bianculli

This is the fifth episode of Fosse/Verdon, and the last I’ve previewed. It’s called “Where Am I Going?” – and the eventual destination is Chicago. Not the city: the Broadway musical Chicago, the Bob Fosse triumph built around a show-stopping role for Gwen Verdon, as Depression-era killer and media sensation Roxie Hart. Michelle Williams plays Verdon, beautifully, and Sam Rockwell hangs on tight as Fosse.

2019

May

STATE OF THE UNION By David Bianculli

Part 2. This 10-part mini-drama (each episode is about 10 minutes long) continues, with another alternately rambling and intense conversation between a married couple about to step into a marriage counselor therapy session. Chris O’Dowd and Rosamund Pike star, and they’re brilliant here – you never catch them “acting.” This 10-part series is written by Nick Hornby and directed by Stephen Frears, who collaborated on the wonderful movie version of High Fidelity. And i

2019

May

'LONG TIME COMING: A 1955 BASEBALL STORY,' A DOCUMENTARY ON SO MUCH MORE THAN THE GAME By David Hinckley

On a late August day in 1955, the Orlando Kiwanis beat the Pensacola Jaycees, 5-0, to win the Florida Little League championship....

2019

May

CHERNOBYL By David Bianculli

MINISERIES PREMIERE: This is not a recommendation. This five-part miniseries, an account of the tragic Soviet nuclear disaster in 1986, comes from an unusual source. And I don’t just mean the British network Sky, which co-produces with HBO. I’m referring to series creator and writer Craig Mazin, whose previous writing credits include the third and fourth editions of Scary Movie and the two sequels to The Hangover. So yes, he’s written disaster movies before… but not in a

2019

May

STATE OF THE UNION By David Bianculli

MINISERIES PREMIERE: This is an almost startlingly original experiment by Sundance. It’s a 10-part drama series presented in daily installments over two weeks – but each installment is a mere 10 minutes long. Monday through Friday this week and next, you can watch the story of a husband and wife, played by Chris O’Dowd and Rosamund Pike, who meet at a pub before entering their regularly scheduled marital therapy sessions. It’s all dialogue, and unfolds deliberately, and i

2019

May

HBO'S 'CHERNOBYL' MINISERIES EXCEEDS EXTRAORDINARY By Ed Bark

Somber to a fault, but never to its determent, HBO’s Chernobyl dares to collude with the misery, deprivation and dogged survival instincts of Russian people large and small...

2019

May

'STATE OF THE UNION' REQUIRES MINIMAL TIME FOR MAXIMUM ENTERTAINMENT By David Hinckley

State of the Union, an experimental series from Sundance, adopts a new-media technique in a good way...

2019

May

THE STORY OF 'CHERNOBYL' COMES TO HBO By David Hinckley

Thirty years after the implosion of the Soviet Union, we still embrace the Cold War image of Russians as cold, calculating, soulless automatons. Chernobyl tracks the devastating accident at the nuclear power plant in 1986,and does nothing to rehabilitate the image of Soviet bureaucrats...

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