Saturday: West Memphis Three Revisited
The 1993 murders of three 8-year-old boys in Arkansas gets another look tonight. Originally three teenagers who were into the occult and heavy metal were convicted in the community heavily…
Friday TV: Gunn, Klum in New Design Show
What’s different about the new fashion designer competition “Making the Cut” (Amazon, streaming)? It seems to have a more global approach. Judges confer in front of the contestants. Most of…
Thursday TV: Fleeing Brooklyn for Berlin
Shira Haas stars in Maria Shrader’s new four-part adaptation of Deborah Feldman, “Unorthodox” (Netflix, streaming), in which a young Hasidic Jewish woman leaves Brooklyn and the orthodoxy for a new…
Wisdom from Terrence McNally, 1938-2020
Theater suffered a loss this week when the playwright Terrence McNally died at 81, of complications of our current plague, the coronavirus. It was a sad irony since many of…
Wednesday TV: Traveling by Television
When travel began to be shut down due to the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, religious landmarks were among the first to close. Thus a new series like “Earth’s Sacred Wonders” (PBS,…
Tuesday TV: ‘Council of Dads’ Debuts
A fragile and emotional time is probably the perfect atmosphere to introduce the new drama “Council of Dads” (NBC, 10 p.m.) in which a group of friends take over parenting…
Monday TV: A Boy’s Move to Fisherman
The documentary “The Rescue List,” making its premiere tonight on “POV” (PBS, 10 p.m., check local listings) follows a team working to rehabilitate two boys in Ghana who were trafficked…
Sunday TV: Damian Lewis Spills on Spies
He’s kind of a king of Sunday night TV, on shows like “Homeland” and “Billions” and even before that on the “Masterpiece” series “The Forsythe Saga” and HBO’s “Band of…
Remembering Kenny Rogers, 1938-2020
I feel kind of bad now that I pressed Kenny Rogers a few years back on whether a tour he was calling “The Gambler’s Last Deal: Final World Tour” would…
Saturday TV: Not Much, Frankly
For a Saturday night when perhaps a record number of Americans will be home, there isn't quite a lot of new or recommendable programs on. More bad planning! After marrying…