Thursday TV: Women Lead New Dramas
Women are the stars of two new dramas starting tonight. Alice Braga stars as a woman seeking refuge in America after her drug-dealing boyfriend is killed in Mexico on the…
Wednesday TV: New ‘American Gothic’
The new summer series “American Gothic” (CBS, 10 p.m.) takes a page from cable with the limited series about a reopened murder case that affects a hifalutin Boston family headed…
Tuesday TV: Oprah Turns Over ‘Greenleaf’
For all her high mindedness, the ratings hero on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network have been the prime time soap operas from Tyler Perry. So it may not be a surprise…
The Jayhawks at The Lincoln Theatre
There is a steadiness and reliability to the Jayhawks’ music — melodic, often wistful, with jangly guitar, keening harmonies and a solid beat. While frontman Gary Louris is fiddling more…
Monday TV: Tailoring to a New Clientele
Lena Dunham helped produce “Suited” (HBO, 9 p.m.), a documentary about a Brooklyn tailor shop that has specialized in making what transgender clients want to wear. In another documentary tonight,…
Sunday TV: ‘Bridge’ Becomes ‘The Tunnel’
Originally “The Bridge” was a cross-cultural detective story between Sweden and Denmark. An American remake placed it between U.S. and Mexico. And now there’s a third version, where a body…
Saturday TV: Franco’s Lifetime Twist
Against all odds, Lifetime may be the new artistic playground for actors. After Will Ferrell made his own straight Lifetime Movie, "A Deadly Adoption" last year, James Franco has entered…
Playlist 6-17-16
We seemed to be back on the air this week. So we started with some Delfonics, since they're in town this weekend, and some James Brown because his sax man…
Friday TV: Orange is Still the New Black
Things get dark but also very timely on the fourth season of “Orange is the New Black” (Netflix, streaming), which drops online today in its entirety. Overcrowding and privatization of…
Thursday TV: ‘Aquarius,’ ‘Home Free’ Back
David Duchovny is arguably more at home in his role as a late 60s L.A. detective in the Manson-era “Aquarius” (NBC, 9 p.m.) than he was in the returning “X-Files”…