Wednesday TV: Reconsidering ‘Waco’
Hard to believe it will be 25 years since the burning of the Branch Davidians in Texas this spring. Hard, too, to get your head around the notion of Taylor…
Tuesday TV: Boy, Oh Boy: ‘Baskets’
In a post-Patty Duke age when portraying twins both a showy way to act and edit, and possibly a cost-cutting way to cast, where James Franco plays two roles on…
Monday TV: Soderbergh’s Shifting ‘Mosaic’
Steven Soderbergh’s latest TV endeavor is a handsome looking murder mystery that takes place in the blue-tinged mountain resorts of Summit, Utah. Yet there seems something quite off about it.…
Sunday TV: Cool Spy Drama ‘Counterpart’
If you think you’ve seen too much of J.K. Simmons on insurance commercials for a guy who deservedly won an Oscar, you’ll see twice as many of him in the…
Attenborough Dives Into ‘Blue Planet II’
Sir Richard Attenborough usually gets closer to his subject matter than he is able to in “Planet Earth: Blue Planet II” (BBC America, 9 p.m.). Concentrating on the 3/4 of…
Catherine Zeta-Jones as Drug Godmother
Catherine Zeta-Jones returns to television for the first time in a big way since a 1996 “Titanic” miniseries (though she was briefly in “Feud: Bette vs. Joan” last year, in…
Also on Saturday: ‘Abba’ in All Its Glory
Here it is the story of Sweden’s biggest pop export (until the current group of writers and producers). “Abba: When All is Said and Done” (Reelz, 8 p.m.) is, if…
Lorraine Hansberry on ‘American Masters’
It seems odd at first that the "American Masters" (PBS, 9 p.m. ET, check local listings) tonight on the playwright Lorraine Hansberry seems longer than the film last week on…
Also on Friday: ‘High Maintenance’ Soars
“High Maintenance” (HBO, 11 p.m.), as it returns for its second season, is getting some higher profile as well. Those who have the discovered the charming anthology about little New…
Thursday TV: Spike Turns Into Paramount
It could be seen as part of the reckoning: The demise of Spike TV, which called itself “The First Network for Men” when it premiered 15 years ago, had a…