Thursday: Weirdness of ‘The Way Down’
I’m a sucker for documentaries about cults and over-the-top evangelists, so “The Way Down” (HBO Max, streaming) fits that bill. Especially since Remnant Fellowship Church leader Gwen Shamblin Lara looks…
Wednesday TV: Shh! It’s Silent Movie Day
There's nowhere better to be than Turner Classic Movies for Silent Movie Day, featuring many films made as long as a century ago. It starts with “Flesh and the Devil”…
Tuesday TV: The Sinkhole by the Tar Pit
“La Brea” (NBC, 9 p.m.) may seem like too direct a metaphor for network TV: tumbling down a sinkhole. Like a lot of sci-fi tinged broadcast series begin like this:…
Film Review: Optimistic ‘Seeding Change’
The preponderance of documentaries on climate crisis are so deeply depressing, with the prospects for the future so dire, one can hardly make it to a conclusion where there might…
Monday TV: ‘Citizen Hearst’ vs. ‘Kane’
The life and times of William Randolph Hearst is told over two nights on a four hour “American Experience” (PBS, 8 p.m., check local listings) that concludes Tuesday. Coincidentally, the…
The 2021 Fall TV Season: Weekends
THE NEW FALL SEASON Even for Sunday, television’s showcase night, broadcast networks have few new broadcast shows to offer this season. Content with their cartoons, on one network, game shows…
Sunday TV: Tony Awards Finally Return
Delayed for more than a year, the 74th Annual Tony Awards (Paramount+, streaming, 7 p.m.) has a lot of ground to cover, though Broadway went dark for most of the…
Saturday TV: ‘Promising Young Woman’
Carey Mulligan got an Academy Award nomination for her role in the unusual thriller “Promising Young Woman” (HBO, 8 p.m.), which makes its premium cable debut today. But Emerald Fennell’s…
The 2021 Fall TV Season: Fridays
THE NEW FALL SEASON Fridays have become so paltry in network programming, it’s almost not worth going through with our night-by-night look at the new fall season on broadcast TV.…
Friday TV: ‘Midnight Mass’ and More
Hamish Linklater plays a priest who turns an isolated island community upside down in the new horror series “Midnight Mass” (Netflix, streaming. It’s from Mike Flanagan, who previously conjured “The…