Friday TV: Kid Reporters to the Rescue
The new family mystery “Home Before Dark” (Apple TV +, streaming) seems at first far-fetched: a murder cracked by a 9-year-old self-declared reporter. But the character of Brooklynn Prince (of…
Virus Takes Adam Schlesinger, 52
It’s clear COVID-19 will mow us all down, spiritually if not literally, decimating every aspect of life. The music world is already being cut down from every genre. I just…
Thursday TV: Abby Goes to a Sitcom
Longtime “NCIS” star Pauley Perrette turns to comedy in the new “Broke” (CBS, 9:30 p.m.) in which she plays a single mother whose sister and brother-in-law come to live with…
Wednesday TV: Wearing the Stetson Inside
The next coronavirus concert brings the country star Garth Brooks and his wife Trisha Yearwood, performing from their home recording studio in “Garth & Trisha Live!” (CBS, 9 p.m.). It…
Tuesday TV: Bribery in NBA Recruiting
That the NCAA basketball tournament was called March Madness seems quaint now. In a much deeper era of madness, the absence of the event means no brackets, no elite eight,…
Monday TV: ‘One Child Nation’ on PBS
We are learning too clearly these days that government policy can have devastating consequences. It happened in China, too, and we’re not talking about the coronavirus. It was its one…
Sunday TV: Sad Songs Save So Much
How does popular culture confront every huge disaster? With a concert! It happens again tonight with the hastily-planned Living Room Concert for America (Fox, 9 p.m.) hosted by Elton John,…
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…