Heck of a Good Cobain Montage
Much has been written about the troubled childhood of Kurt Cobain, who turned his pain into indelible rock with Nirvana. But nothing has been done with as much style, nor…
Also on Monday: Salute to Dave
He’s done so much for so long to set the tone for late night television, it’s hard to believe they’ll let him go after a 33 year career with only…
Sunday TV: New ‘Penny Dreadful’ Season
The beautifully creepy “Penny Dreadful” (Showtime, 10 p.m.) starts its second season, if anything even more elegantly navigating its stories between young Dr. Frankenstein and his miffed monster, a burgeoning…
Saturday TV: Biggest Sports Day Ever?
It may be the biggest sports day ever, what with two major sports in playoffs, a third in its second month, a fourth still going through the fourth through seventh…
Friday TV: Double the Sharks
It’s not enough to plug in an episode of “Shark Tank” (ABC, 8 p.m.) every time there’s some empty space on the network schedule. Now there’s an official offshoot “Beyond…
Thursday TV: Dealing with McDeady
I suppose it's not a spoiler by now to anyone who still cares about "Grey's Anatomy" (ABC, 8 p.m.) that Derek, McDreamy himself, died in last week's episode. It's a…
Wednesday TV: Rowling’s ‘Casual Vacancy’
Dropped randomly in the middle of the week and given scarcely any publicity, the purchase of a three-episode British miniseries "The Casual Vacancy" (HBO, 8 p.m.) seems somewhat of an…
Tuesday TV: Last Days in Vietnam
It was 40 years ago this week that those last crowded helicopters pulled up from a Saigon roof marking the end of America's long, bloody involvement involvement there. At the…
Monday TV: Tracing Steps of Serial Killer
Bumbling British documentarian Nick Broomfield may be the last one you'd expect to get things right in one of his films -- he's the one who kept ambushing Courtney Love…
Sunday TV: ‘Happyish’ Just OKish
There are a hundred reasons to be sad that Philip Seymour Hoffman died, but one of them was that he never got to star in "Happyish" (Showtime, 9:30 p.m.). He…