Sunday TV: A Trip to a Different ‘MaryLand’
A pair of sisters, who join together after their mother’s sudden death, find out she had been leading a whole other life in the new three-episode series “MaryLand” (PBS, 9…
Saturday TV: Katt Williams Standup Special
The live comedy experiment this week on Netflix continues with “Katt Williams: Woke Foke” (Netflix, 10 .m.), the comedian’s special live from the YouTube Theater in Los Angeles. May the…
Friday TV: Jerry Seinfeld Gets ‘Unfrosted’
The cupboards in “Seinfeld” were always filled with cereal, so it figures that Jerry Seinfeld’s new comedy “Unfrosted” (Netflix, streaming) concerns the battles between Kellogg’s and Post to invent the…
Thursday TV: Tom Wolfe’s ‘A Man in Full’
Coming more than a decade after his first novel, “The Bonfire of the Vanities,” Tom Wolfe’s “A Man in Full” (Netflix, streaming) in 1998 had some of the same kinds…
Wednesday TV: Brittney Griner Breaks Silence
Sentenced for nine years in Russia jail for a drug charge WNBA star Brittney Griner ended up jailed for four monhs after a prisoner swap. Now she tells her story…
Tuesday TV: Elisabeth Moss Gets Tough
She’s been tough in five season of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” but it’s a little jarring to see Elisabeth Moss as a straight up brawler in the action spy series “The…
Some Other Things I’ve Written Lately
Here are some other things I've written at other places: A review of a fine tribute concert for Leonard Cohen at the Kennedy Center on my Substack. Surveying an exhibition…
Capital Radio, 4-29-24: Duke Ellington’s 125th
D.C. favorite son Duke Ellington was born here 125 years ago today, so we began Capital Radio with a handful of his selections, largely from 90 years ago — about…
Monday TV: ‘The Brokenwood Mysteries’
The New Zealand series “The Brokenwood Mysteries” (Acorn TV, streaming) returns for its 10th anniversary season, investigating murders in a small town on the North Island, starting with the death…
Sunday TV: ‘How Disney Built America’
A new six-part series charts the rise of Walt Disney and his company into a worldwide cultural and entertainment juggernaut, “How Disney Built America” (History, 10 p.m.). It joins the…