Other Things I’ve Written Lately
A story about Ai Weiwei finally getting to see his "Trace," depicting political prisoners, at the Hirshhorn. A feature about the new season of "Playing House" on USA. Describing how one Matthew…
Thursday TV: Who’s ‘Hooten & the Lady’?
An eight-episode summer English import goes the Indiana Jones route. “Hooten & the Lady” (The CW, 9 p.m.) stars Michael Lands as an American adventurer who runs into a British…
Wednesday TV: More Cringe Comedy
The familiar comic face of Andrea Savage, most recently seen as President Laura Montez on “Veep,” writes and stars in the comedy “I’m Sorry” (truTV, 10 and 10:30 p.m.) that…
Tuesday TV: Freeform’s ‘The Bold Type’
New series about women in magazines have had mixed results. “Good Girls Revolt” was canceled after one season on Amazon Prime, but “Younger,” which is only peripherally about publishing, continues…
Monday TV: A Wilder Side of Shakespeare
Before he wrote all those plays and sonnets, the guy had to live, right? The new series “Will” (TNT, 9 p.m.) imagines young Shakespeare as a kind of 16th century…
Jimmy Iovine, Dr. Dre are ‘Defiant Ones’
It borrows its title from the 1958 film about a black and white prisoner chained together, but the bonds between super successful producers Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre led to…
Also On Sunday: Alec Baldwin Honored
Not sure exactly what he’s done to deserve the honor (did you see "Paris Can Wait"?), but a number of luminaries including Robert De Niro, Julianne Moore, Jane Krakowski, Jack…
Saturday TV: Doping ‘Tour De Pharmacy’
In the midst of another scenic and often dramatic Tour De France bicycle race, here’s an hour long spoof of a time when drugs took over the sport in “Tour…
Friday TV: ‘Castlevania,’ Vampire Hunter
It’s sounds a little like Transylvania, but the new animated action fantasy “Castlevania” (Netflix, streaming) is about a vampire hunter looking to kill Dracula, based on a video game of the…
Thursday TV: The Mosquito Menace
Before they bring out the bigger sharks to scare you, Discovery is poised to scare you with its film “Mosquito” (Discovery, 9 p.m.), about the danger and unpredictability of the…