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Skip the first episode of ‘I’m Dying Up Here’

Showtime’s “I’m Dying Up Here” is a fictional drama about the Sunset Strip stand-up comedy scene in 1973, and it’s full of revelations that it (wrongly) assumes to be fresh news to a cable a...

DATE: Jun 5, 2017 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

‘Twin Peaks’ in a time of peak weirdness

Last we saw FBI Agent Dale Cooper, he was in the Great Northern Lodge in the fictional town of Twin Peaks, Washington, staring into a cracked bathroom mirror with a maniacal grin. Staring ba...

DATE: May 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

In Netflix’s perfect revival of ‘One Day at a Time,’ there’s hope for the future of sitcoms

Well, they only had to remake a jillion TV shows from yesteryear to finally get one exactly, perfectly right. Not only is Netflix’s reimagined “One Day at a Time” a joy to watch, it’s also t...

DATE: Jan 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

‘The New Celebrity Apprentice’ is missing something – and it isn’t just Donald Trump

To no one’s surprise, NBC’s “The New Celebrity Apprentice,” which was shot many moons ago but made its two-hour premiere Monday night, is very much like the old “Celebrity Apprentice” – dull...

DATE: Jan 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

In Florence Henderson’s Carol Brady, a reassuring (and vanishing) sense of adulthood

Florence Henderson was 34 when she was cast as Carol Brady, an unmarried (presumably divorced; it’s still up for debate) mother of three little girls who met and married a widowed father of ...

DATE: Nov 25, 2016 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Rolling Stone has come up with the 100 greatest TV shows of all time; my list was a little different

The Oct. 6 issue of Rolling Stone is out, with the magazine’s list of “The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time” on the cover. (No. 1? Hardly a spoiler alert needed – it’s HBO’s “The Sopranos.”...

DATE: Sep 29, 2016 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

FX's 'People v. O.J. Simpson' is near-perfect and arrives at the perfect time

Here’s a strange blessing for our times: May you live long enough to see a sensationally overblown news event that you can still vividly recall turned into a very good and even powerfully th...

DATE: Feb 2, 2016 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

Conspiracy theories are mainstream now - can the new 'X-Files' stand out?

The rebooted, six-episode version of “The X-Files” (premiering Sunday on Fox) wastes no time acknowledging the obvious: As a people, Americans are a crazier bunch and more prone to conspirac...

DATE: Jan 26, 2016 | CATEGORY: Film, TV and Streaming

The latest at ‘Downton Abbey’ – exit signs

“Downton Abbey” has found its groove, which, of course, involves no real groove at all. A groove would ruin it. Viewers have figured out that their beloved British period drama moves through...

DATE: Jan 1, 2015 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Farewell, Stephen Colbert. (And hello, Stephen Colbert.)

In a culture as fickle and fast as ours, it ought to be impossible to keep a running joke aloft for nine years and still have it play in a vibrant and smart way night after night, but that’s...

DATE: Dec 19, 2014 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Skip the first episode of ‘I’m Dying Up Here’

‘Twin Peaks’ in a time of peak weirdness

In Netflix’s perfect revival of ‘One Day at a Time,’ there’s hope for the future of sitcoms

‘The New Celebrity Apprentice’ is missing something – and it isn’t just Donald Trump

In Florence Henderson’s Carol Brady, a reassuring (and vanishing) sense of adulthood

Rolling Stone has come up with the 100 greatest TV shows of all time; my list was a little different

FX's 'People v. O.J. Simpson' is near-perfect and arrives at the perfect time

Conspiracy theories are mainstream now - can the new 'X-Files' stand out?

The latest at ‘Downton Abbey’ – exit signs

Farewell, Stephen Colbert. (And hello, Stephen Colbert.)

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