New Year’s Eve TV: Let’s All Stay Home
Staying home on New Year’s Eve is the smartest idea with new COVID infections have reached half a million people a day. Luckily there’s enough titles on to keep viewers…
Thursday TV: Lost in ‘The Twilight Zone’
One of the TV highlights of New Year’s has nothing to do with a Rockin’ Eve and everything to do with Rod Serling’s groundbreaking series from the 1960s. “The Twilight…
Wednesday TV: Boba Fett Gets Own Show
The armored bounty hunter Boba Felt has appeared in the “Star Wars” world as far back as the 1978 holiday special, “The Empire Strikes Back” and “The Return of the…
Tuesday: ‘The Super Bob Einstein Movie’
Two days after the notable season finale of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” (where the Funkhauser mantle has been picked up by Vince Vaughn), a documentary pays loving tribute to the erstwhile…
Capital Radio, New Year’s Edition, 12-27-21
The last show of the year was sort of a parlor trick: Could I make a full show out of New Year’s tunes? Almost. Especially if I play “What Are…
Monday TV: ‘Unapologetic’ on ‘POV’
“Unapologetic,” Ashley O’Shay’s new film on “POV” (PBS, 9 p.m., check local listings), follows the work of two young activists in Chicago and their work following the police murder of…
Sunday TV: ‘Insecure’ Has a Series Finale
Issa Rae wraps up her groundbreaking series “Insecure” (HBO, 10 p.m.) after five seasons, a benchmark further celebrated on the special “Insecure: The End” (HBO Max, streaming). Its companion comedy…
Saturday TV: ‘Call the Midwife’ Special
“Call the Midwife” (PBS, 9 p.m.) has its holiday special, with Lucille and Cyril about to tie the know during Christmas 1966. In what we can only hope is the…
Friday TV: Adam McKay’s ‘Don’t Look Up’
Big movies often come out at Christmas, but only in the COVID era does that happen on TV. Today’s big premiere is Adam McKay’s dark comedy “Don’t Look Up” (Netflix,…
Thursday TV: When Beanie Babies Ruled
As we fight crowds and pandemics to obtain this year’s supposed hot toy, let us consider one from the 90s, the Beanie Baby, which, according to the new documentary “Beanie…