Monday TV: Women Surviving Misery
One of the most harrowing stories of the decade happened in Nigeria, where 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped and taken into the forest by terrorist extremists in 2014. Fewer than half…
Bottle Rockets Share With Sarah Borges
The Bottle Rockets have always had a flinty, no-nonsense way of expressing the very concrete things of everyday life that sets it apart from most bands. There’s a hard-won Midwestern…
Death Cab for Cutie Rolls In
Despite its jokey name, lifted from a Bonzo Dog Band song title, Death Cab for Cutie have been releasing intriguing, largely wistful albums for 20 years now. Their latest, Thank…
Sunday TV: ‘The Woman in White’
Public TV looked at its Sunday night schedule and said: More British drama! So here’s a new five-part adaptation of Wilkie Collins’s 19th century mystery that "Masterpiece Theatre" has tackled…
Saturday TV: Small Shoes to Fill
"Game of Thrones” star Peter Dinklage spent several years helping turn an expansive, pre-suicide interview with the French actor Hervé Villechaize by journalist Sacha Gervasi into a screenplay, which makes…
Friday TV: More ‘Making a Murderer’
The sheer success of the series that helped kickstart a true crime TV blitz three years ago, demanded a second season of “Making a Murderer” (Netflix, streaming), if not the appeals…
Thursday TV: You Get a Rock
It’s not often that a whole new religion is presented in a half hour special - let alone a family cartoon — but that’s what “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie…
‘How I Learned to Drive’ in the #MeToo Era
What was it like 21 years ago when Paula Vogel’s “How I Learned to Drive” premiered off Broadway? It was more shocking, maybe; probably more balanced with laughs; and perhaps…
Wednesday TV: Leaf Peeping, Live!
I’m a sucker for live nature events and the latest one, after “Big Blue Live” and “Wild Alaska Wild” Is “Autumnwatch-New England” (PBS, 8 p.m., check local listings), celebrating good,…
Tuesday TV: ‘Roseanne’ Without Roseanne
When Roseanne Barr's racist tweet got her fired from her own sitcom, there was some thought of keeping the rest of the writers and cast to try doing the show…