Sunday TV: ‘Westworld’s Violent Return
Perhaps HBO measures its quality television by the number of dead bodies with which it can cover the landscape - there are a lot of them on the second season…
Saturday TV: The Struggle of Motherhood
Raising a new baby isn’t a competition, but if it were, the beleaguered Audrey on the Australian comedy import “The Letdown” (Netflix, streaming) would be losing. Every terrible thing about…
Friday TV: Sutton Foster Sings
Sutton Foster, the actress from “Younger,” reminds TV audiences why she won two Tony Awards for her work in “Anything Goes” and “Thoroughly Modern Millie” with a concert special from…
Thursday TV: ‘Scandal’ Ends Its Run
From the start, it seemed too over-the-top to be taken seriously as a political drama, but “Scandal” (ABC, 10 p.m.) found a fiercely loyal audience that made a wine-pouring party…
Wednesday TV: Bill Nye Pleads His Case
After single handedly exciting a generation of future scientists, Bill Nye “The Science Guy” still keeps a very active schedule trying to convince adults that climate change is real. That…
Tuesday TV: Celebrating ‘Civilizations’
The ambitious reboot of Kenneth Clark’s original series, which helped put PBS on the map for cultural programming, begins with the wanton destruction of artifacts in Palmyra in present day…
Monday TV: Mariska Hargitay, SVU
It’s odd when you’re on a TV show: People connect you with the character even if it’s clear you are playing a role. It happened to Mariska Hargitay who in…
Sunday TV: Comey Sits With George
It’s one of those book launches that threatens to scrape history, which tends to happen every couple of months now. At any rate, the book tour of former FBI director…
Long, Laudatory Look at The King
As if to save him from the knick-knack shelf of American kitsch, the lengthy “Elvis Presley: The Searcher” (HBO, 8 p.m.) spends three and a half hours celebrating the musical…
Friday TV: Netflix’s new ‘Lost in Space’
I’m all for casting Parker Posey as the wily Dr. Smith, but an even better piece of casting for the new remade series “Lost in Space” (Netflix, streaming). is Molly…