Monday TV: Edging Toward ‘The Endgame’
The statuesque Morena Baccarin returns as a mysterious Ukranian arms dealer who, once nabbed by the feds, orchestrates a series of bank heists in the pilot episode. “The Endgame” (NBC,…
Sunday TV: The Abe Lincoln Story Again
With a strong Abraham Lincoln documentary series already streaming on Apple TV+ (“Lincoln’s Dilemma”), here’s another miniseries on the 16th president that’s more conventional, with a recreation of the man…
Saturday TV: Remembering Sidney Poitier
Turner Classic Movies finally has its memorial tribute for Sidney Poitier, the groundbreaking actor who died last month at 94, with his films “In the Heat of the Night” (8…
Friday TV: Striking New ‘Severance’
Like a Non-Disclosure Agreement on steroids, the shadowy company at the center of the sci-fi series “Severance” (Apple TV+, streaming) erases all memories of the workplace when employees go home…
Thursday TV: ‘Big Nate’ on Paramount+
In an adaptation of the comic strip about a sixth grade kid with bumpy hair, “Big Nate” (Paramount+, streaming) gets filled out a bit. The computer-animated series features the voices…
Wednesday TV: Decades of Kanye West
How much do we want to know about rapper, celebrity ex-husband and onetime Presidential candidate Kanye West? A childhood friend who had a camera around created a three-part documentary about…
Tuesday TV: An ‘American Reckoning’
A trove of footage on Civil Rights protests and bombings of NCAAP officials in Natchez, Miss., in the 1960s recreates the pain and struggles of not that long ago, as…
Capital Radio, Valentine’s Edition 2-14-22
A radio show on Valentine's Day demands a slew of songs to commemorate, amid all the attendant hearts and flowers. And so it was, from Big Maybelle to Snail Mail;…
Monday TV: Domestic ‘State of the Union’
The format is a strange one — ten 10-minute episodes rolling out one a week. But “State of the Union” (Sundance, 10 p.m.), written by Nick Hornby and directed by…
Sunday TV: A Harder ‘Bel-Air,’ and Football
What began as an offhand filmmakers’ joke — making a trailer for “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” as if it were a gritty drama — caught the eye of Will…