Wednesday TV: Recounting the 2000 Vote
Even if you’ve already voted, you can get skittish by reliving what happened in 2020, when Al Gore won the popular vote and the Supreme Court told Florida to stop…
Tuesday TV: Dodgers-Rays Series Starts
It’s been a terrible baseball season, with phony, piped in cheers, suitable only for the cardboard cutouts they put in the stands. But the best couple of teams ended up…
Monday TV: The Saga of Pepe the Frog
At a time when a whole other extremist, internet-born right wing group, QAnon, is insinuating itself into mainstream Republican politics, it’s enlightening to see the damaged caused by a similar,…
Sunday TV: Another Cult Documentary
An arrest is made of the cult leader on the season finale tonight of the fascinating documentary series “The Vow” (HBO, 10 p.m.). But it was announced this week that…
Saturday TV: Awesome ‘American Utopia’
An inventive and joyous tour turned into a ebullient Broadway show, “David Byrne’s American Utopia” (HBO, 8 p.m.) may be all you need to lift you up above the dire…
Friday TV: Sorkin’s ‘Trial of the Chicago 7’
It’s been a big couple of days for Aaron Sorkin, who not only premiered a revived episode of “The West Wing” on HBOMax yesterday, he also presents a new film,…
Thursday TV: ‘The West Wing’ Cast Returns
There’s something of a political overload tonight, the most satisfying of which will likely be “A West Wing Reunion to Benefit When We All Vote” (HBO Max, streaming), the first…
Wednesday TV: Billboard Music Awards
The 2020 Billboard Music Awards (NBC, 8 p.m.) is the latest event to attempt to work amid a pandemic. It had already been postponed since April. Kelly Clarkson hosts and…
Tuesday: A History of ‘Driving While Black’
What seems bad in recent years has actually been around since the invention of the automobile, as chronicled in the new two hour documentary “Driving While Black: Race, Space and…
Monday TV: The Demise of Atlantic Ice
Shot over a series of four years, the documentary “The Last Ice” (Nat Geo Wild, 9 p.m.) shows the rapid disappearance of Arctic ice between Canada and Greenland and especially…