What I Saw at the Capital Fringe Festival
Got to see nearly a dozen productions at this year's Capital Fringe Festival. Which sounds like a lot but is only a fraction of the 130 shows produced. At any…
Saturday TV: Put a Spike in It, It’s Done
With the transcontinental railroad complete, “Hell on Wheels” (AMC, 9 p.m.) comes to an end after five seasons. The Central Pacific was first to hit the finish line and went over…
Playlist 7-22-16
A salute to George Clinton's birthday was followed by a memorial to Alan Vega, the innovator and former member of Suicide who died last Saturday at 78. There was a…
Friday Night: Battling Back to ‘Big Brother’
A rare Friday night “Big Brother” (CBS, 8 p.m.) is reserved for the competition among the five evicted houseguests so far to compete against one another so that one of…
Thursday: Finally, a Use for Political Pins
Hot air! Thin skin! Round! Unpredictability of how things will fall! The balloon drop shares a lot with the nominee at the Republican National Convention (MSNBC, 5 p.m.; Fox News,…
Wednesday TV: Satirical Motherlode
The only disappointment so far about “Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” is that it’s only on once a week. The GOP Trumpathon in Cleveland, though, has necessitated “A Very Special Full…
Tuesday TV: Trumpapalooza II
Not the most star-studded night at the Republican National Convention (MSNBC, Fox News, 7 p.m.; PBS, 8 p.m.; CNN, 9 p.m.; ABC, NBC, CBS, 10 p.m.). The biggest names include sleep-inducing…
RNC, Night One: Melania Loves Chachi
You thought those three-hour finales for “The Apprentice” stretched things out. The four day Republican National Convention (MSNBC, 5p.m.; Fox News, 6 p.m.; CNN, CSPAN, 7 p.m.; PBS, 8 p.m.;…
Also on Monday: Back from Blindness
An elderly woman and her husband both slowly went blind over the years from cataracts but continued to live their lives in remote Nepal. In Irene Taylor Brodsky’s sweet documentary…
Sunday TV: Squabbling ‘Vice Principals’
It took me a while to warm to Danny McBride’s “Southbound and Down,” but he essentially has the same character in the new “Vice Principals” (HBO, 10:30 p.m.). (In fact, didn’t…