Saturday TV: Christmas Comes Too Soon
It’s still a week until Halloween but the onslaught of cable Christmas romance movies begins squarely tonight with the long running Yuletide movie maker Hallmark starting its run of original…
Friday TV: A Whole Lot of Streaming
It may be the biggest movie streaming night ever - mostly because movie theaters aren’t opening. So here’s Sofia Coppola’s latest low key comedy “On the Rocks” (Apple TV+. streaming)…
Thursday TV: A New Swing at ‘The Witches’
Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, Stanley Tucci, Kristin Chenoweth and Chris Rock are all part of a remake of “Roald Dahl’s The Witches” (HBO Max, streaming). The remake of the 1990…
Wednesday TV: Recounting the 2000 Vote
Even if you’ve already voted, you can get skittish by reliving what happened in 2020, when Al Gore won the popular vote and the Supreme Court told Florida to stop…
Tuesday TV: Dodgers-Rays Series Starts
It’s been a terrible baseball season, with phony, piped in cheers, suitable only for the cardboard cutouts they put in the stands. But the best couple of teams ended up…
Monday TV: The Saga of Pepe the Frog
At a time when a whole other extremist, internet-born right wing group, QAnon, is insinuating itself into mainstream Republican politics, it’s enlightening to see the damaged caused by a similar,…
Sunday TV: Another Cult Documentary
An arrest is made of the cult leader on the season finale tonight of the fascinating documentary series “The Vow” (HBO, 10 p.m.). But it was announced this week that…
Saturday TV: Awesome ‘American Utopia’
An inventive and joyous tour turned into a ebullient Broadway show, “David Byrne’s American Utopia” (HBO, 8 p.m.) may be all you need to lift you up above the dire…
Friday TV: Sorkin’s ‘Trial of the Chicago 7’
It’s been a big couple of days for Aaron Sorkin, who not only premiered a revived episode of “The West Wing” on HBOMax yesterday, he also presents a new film,…
Thursday TV: ‘The West Wing’ Cast Returns
There’s something of a political overload tonight, the most satisfying of which will likely be “A West Wing Reunion to Benefit When We All Vote” (HBO Max, streaming), the first…