‘Louie’s After School Pot Special
No wonder Louis C.K. took a year to produce his latest season of “Louie.” Every few episodes unfold like a little movie, with the deadpan flavor of 70s independent film.…
Go Big Dread: Absurdist Play About Nebraska Politics
Politics is such a relentless, fulltime obsession in D.C., it may never occur to you to duck into a theater to take in more of it. But Peter Sinn Nachreib’s…
Monday TV: New ‘Murder in the First’
Like his old "Murder One," years ago, Stephen Bochco's new "Murder in the First" (TNT, 10 p.m.) shares a number and the belief in creating an entire season out of…
Fisticuffs and Inspirational Speeches
The new AMC drama "Halt" and Catch Fire had some big shoes to fill. Sliding into the "Mad Men" timeslot was struggle enough, but it also came along just as…
Sunday TV: Jackman Back at the Tonys
Not so long ago, it was exiled to public television, if it was on the airwaves at all. Now, The 68th Annual Tony Awards (CBS, 8 p.m.) is one of the…
Saturday TV: 50 Cent Adds Starz’ ‘Power’
Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson has tried his hand at a number of things from drugs to VitaminWater. Now he tries TV, in a new series "Power" (Starz, 9 p.m.), starring…
Playlist 6-6-14
It's not as easy to draw up a D-Day playlist as it looks but we took a stab at it, aided mightily by Nat King Cole's jaunty song "D-Day," presented…
Friday TV: More Juicy ‘Orange’
I've just lately been binge-finishing the first season of "Orange is the New Black" (Netflix) and mostly been wondering why I've been delaying this gratification so long. The Jenji Kohan…
The Veep of My Street
For the annual Hobart Street Porch Fest this weekend in D.C., I did some research on the guy for whom the block was named nearly 100 years ago and found…
Thursday TV: NBA Finals Primetime Tipoff
It's been a long time coming, but tonight marks the start of the NBA Finals with Miami at San Antonio (ABC, 9 p.m.). It also marks the move of the…