The point of driving is to get you somewhere. The point of Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America is to show the viewer how the American "crime" of driving while Black reflects a greater and deeper fear...

2020

Oct

LIKE A ZOMBIE, 'FEAR THE WALKING DEAD' HAS RETURNED By David Hinckley

The opening for the new season of Fear the Walking Dead will remind anyone who might have forgotten that yes, folks, this is a show built on a comic book...

2020

Oct

'CONNECTING…' IS A COVID-ERA COMEDY THAT REFLECTS THE NEW WORLD WE'RE ALL EXPERIENCING By David Hinckley

You knew it was only a matter of time before someone would create a sitcom that looks like a Zoom meeting...

2020

Oct

AI THAT'S SILLY, FOR A CHANGE, WITH 'CODE 404' By David Hinckley

There's a hint of Monty Python in the new British sitcom Code 404, and that's enough to make a marginal premise into an entertaining half-hour of television...

2020

Oct

DRAMA AND INTRIGUE IN THE WORLD OF FINANCE WITH 'DEVILS' By David Hinckley

If you find yourself missing Billions, The CW may be able to help you out. Just don't set your expectations too high...

2020

Oct

EXPLORING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE WITH 'NEXT' By David Hinckley

It's been 52 years since HAL, the rogue computer in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, threatened to undermine all of humanity by developing a not always benign mind of its own...

2020

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'SOULMATES': WHEN ROMANCE COMES DOWN TO SCIENCE By David Hinckley

Let's stipulate up front that to become one of the most unsettling things a viewer could have recently seen on television, the creative team has to clear a pretty high bar...

2020

Oct

'THE WALKING DEAD: WORLD BEYOND' HAS FINALLY ARRIVED By David Hinckley

With its newest spinoff, World Beyond, it feels like the Walking Dead franchise has decided to open a YA (young adult) division...

2020

Oct

THE NEWEST 'MASTERPIECE' AND THE MYSTERIES OF A LATE-LIFE ROMANCE WITH 'FLESH AND BLOOD' By David Hinckley

PBS is continuing this fall's "Masterpiece by committee" plan with a British miniseries called Flesh and Blood...

2020

Oct

FROM DARREN STAR, 'EMILY IN PARIS' IS A GREAT WAY TO ESCAPE By David Hinckley

At a point when we need more rom-coms than ever, we keep getting fewer. That's a problem. Emily in Paris is part of the solution...

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