Tuesday TV: New ‘Genius,’ ‘Great News’
Geoffrey Rush seems just the right guy to play the elder Albert Einstein in the new 10-episode miniseries “Genius” (National Geographic, 9 p.m.); impetuous and mercurial, he looks like he’ll…
Drive-By Truckers Split It Up at 9:30
The Drive-By Truckers tried something bold with their 10th studio album last fall, "American Band." Though the title makes it sound like a reprise of the Grand Funk hit, it…
Monday TV: Can Holocaust Humor Exist?
In politics, tossing off the Holocaust and Hitler for comparison is never a good idea. What about making a joke of them? The documentary “The Last Laugh” looks at where exactly…
Aimee Mann: Sad Songs in Hot Pants
Aimee Mann thinks her songs are sadder than they really are; that there’s so much psychosis on her latest album that she had to called it "Mental Illness." It was as…
Sunday TV: New ‘Mary Kills People’
The Canadian import “Mary Kills People” (Lifetime, 10 p.m.) has a bit of a “Breaking Bad” feel - a darkly comic drama about a doctor who covertly assists with euthanasia…
Stage Review: ‘Fun Home’ National Tour
Alison Bechdel’s “Fun Home” first arose 15 years ago as one of those rare graphic novels that rose above all others, as Art Spiegelman’s “Maus” or Marjane Satrapi’s “Persepolis” did…
Saturday TV: Oprah in ‘Henrietta Lacks’
“The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” (HBO, 8 p.m.) brings light to the story of the African-American woman whose cells unwittingly were used for decades of research and breakthroughs, but…
Friday TV: ‘Girlboss,’ Bill Nye and ‘Bosch’
Britt Robertson takes the role of a fictionalized Sophia Amoruso, who rose from the streets to become “Girlboss” (Netflix, streaming) in a new series produced by Charlize Theron, building the…
Thursday TV: The Rock Spins Records
The comedy series was pretty good, even though it had to interrupt a newsy era of political tragicomedy. Now comes its music history documentary, “Soundtracks: Songs That Define History” (CNN,…
Nat Geo Hasn’t Fired Bill O’Reilly Yet
It was kind of a funny day for National Geographic to release its slate of new scripted development projects, ranging from “The Birth of the Pill” to the Ebola drama…