Tuesday TV: Escaping to Nebraska
In a premise as old as “Green Acres,” Dax Shepard and Lake Bell play a New York couple who abruptly move to a Nebraska farmhouse in the new “Bless This…
Monday TV: Tracking a Family Separation
David Sutherland’s documentary “Marcos Doesn’t Live Here Anymore” follows the immigration crisis through one family - a Marine veteran in Ohio separated from her undocumented husband, trying to unite with…
Sunday TV: ‘Game of Thrones’ Wall Falls
The overload of hype has almost put me off the return of “Game of Thrones” (HBO, 9 p.m.) for its final six episodes, with the Wall crumbling and the invaders…
Saturday TV: Beyond the Torn Achilles
Sports dominate TV tonight. The sports documentary “The Resurgence: DeMarcus Cousins” (Showtime, 8 p.m.) looks at the torn Achilles that ended the NBA season of DeMarcus “Boogie” Cousins and joining…
Friday TV: Pulitzer Awarded Own Bio Film
At a time when journalism seems at a crossroads, here’s a portrait of a media mogul whose name became synonymous with excellence, “Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People” on “American…
Thursday TV: More Zombie Problems
In the latest zombie series, “Black Summer” (Netflix, streaming), Jaime King stars as a mother seeking her daughter during the latest apocalypse. The eight-episode series from Karl Schaefer and John…
Wednesday TV: Monsters Tracking Noise
In addition to starring in “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” (Netflix, streaming), which just unleashed its second season, Kieran Shipka stars as a hearing impaired teen in the streaming service’s latest…
Embodying the Dazzle of ‘Fosse / Verdon’
Gorgeous-looking, high-end limited series with top stars doing Emmy-worthy work depicting in many cases real people has usually been under the aegis of Ryan Murphy at FX. But with Murphy…
Also Tonight: Revisiting Reconstruction
One of the most important, but least told aspects of American history, is that of the time that came immediately after the Civil War. Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s latest history…
Also Tuesday: Another Military Law Series
“JAG” ran for 10 seasons, over two different networks, from 1995-2005 and left its military / legal DNA in the spin-off “NCIS” (CBS, 10 p.m.) which in turn spawned two…