Saturday TV: NBA Playoffs Tip Off
The NBA Playoffs begin in prime time with Boston at Brooklyn (ABC, 8:15 p.m.) in Game 1 of an Eastern Conference first round series. Other playoff games today have Miami…
How the Music of 1971 Changed Things
Picking an epochal year in music can be tricky. While 1954 or 1977 may be easy choices for turning points in rock, I was always partial to 1966. Ronald Brownstein’s…
Also on Friday: ‘Solos,’ ‘Say It Out Loud’
The seven-episode “Solos” (Amazon Prime, streaming) seems to be one of the better results of the pandemic. From writer David Weil ("Hunters"), it features a number of actors doing "Black…
Thursday TV: Emily Watson is ‘Too Close’
Emily Watson stars as a forensic psychiatrist who finds herself manipulated while she’s assessing a criminal suspect portrayed by Denise Gough in the three-part psychological thriller “Too Close” (AMC+, streaming).…
Wednesday TV: Hangin’ at the Waterhole
Where does all the wildlife meet on the African savannah? At the oasis if not the bar. It’s all “Life at the Waterhole” (PBS, 8 p.m., check local listings), a…
Tuesday: Caught in the Healthcare Divide
The COVID-19 pandemic deepened fault lines in American hospitals, especially those that regularly serve low income communities, which were already troubled before the deluge came. Richer hospitals made millions during…
Monday TV: Billy Graham’s Political Ploy
The road to the kind of conservative Christians who are these days paradoxically against vaccination began with the ambitions of evangelical preacher Billy Graham, who hid his full involvement into…
Sunday TV: Harlem Women ‘Run the World’
Amber Stevens, Andrea Bordeaux, Bresha Webb and Corbin Reid star in a kind of East Coast variation of “Insecure.” “Run the World” (Starz, 8:30 p.m.) follows a group of Black…
Saturday TV: Medina Spirit Tries Again
The 146th Preakness Stakes (NBC, 5 p.m.) gets a higher profile this year, because the clouded Kentucky Derby winner in dispute, Medina Spirit, is in it. Post time is 6:47…
Film: A Marriage’s ‘Before/During/After’
Finnerty Steeves is an actress who has put in good work on dozens of stages over the past couple of decades; on Broadway in “Brighton Beach Memoirs”; on TV on…