Psychoanalyzing Houdini
“Houdini” begins with a striking image of the escape artist Harry Houdini (Adrien Brody) perched on a bridge, shackled, as he works up the nerve to jump into the icy [...]
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Posted August 27, 2014in On The Tube
Posted August 20, 2014in On The Tube
Big news on the small screen
I was going to start talking about the overrated shows nominated for this year’s Emmy Awards (Monday, 7 p.m., NBC), as I don’t understand why critics have fallen for “Masters [...]
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Posted August 13, 2014in On The Tube
Who am I this time?
Martin Odum (Sean Bean) is a CIA agent who transforms himself into a different person for each undercover job. For example, he goes to great lengths to style himself as [...]
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Posted August 06, 2014in On The Tube
Damn yankee
At first glance, “Jersey Belle” (Monday, 9 p.m., Bravo) comes on like one of those housewife reality series everyone loves to hate. Jaime is a brash Jersey girl with an [...]
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Posted July 30, 2014in On The Tube
Spreading the wealth
In the reality series “#RichKids of Beverly Hills,” the rich kids aren’t icky in that Kardashian way (Sunday, 9 p.m., E!). They’re smart and self-aware, even self-mocking at times. As [...]
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Posted July 23, 2014in On The Tube
R.I.P. Hercule Poirot
Agatha Christie’s Belgian detective Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) returns to “Masterpiece Mystery!” with his waxed mustache, three-piece suit and formal manner — so formal that he even refers to himself [...]
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Posted July 16, 2014in On The Tube
Take my husband — please!
Finally, after a summer’s worth of awful new sitcoms, I’m laughing again. In “Married,” Russ (Nat Faxon) and Lina (Judy Greer) are a once-happy couple weighed down by three kids [...]
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Posted July 09, 2014in On The Tube
Catching your death of cold
Guillermo del Toro (“Pan’s Labyrinth”) co-wrote and directed the first episode of “The Strain,” a stylish thriller about a virus with vampiric origins (Sunday, 9 p.m., FX). Dr. Ephraim Goodweather [...]
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Posted July 02, 2014in On The Tube
Home is where the heart isn’t
In the opening scene of “Finding Carter” (Tuesday, 9 p.m., MTV), 16-year-old Carter (Kathryn Prescott) shares a tender moment with her mother over frozen yogurt, then heads off to party [...]
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Posted June 25, 2014in On The Tube
Bodies of evidence
With “Reckless,” CBS tries to create a sexy summer series — and succeeds (Sunday, 8 p.m.). Jamie (Anna Wood), a gorgeous Yankee lawyer in Charleston, South Carolina, is introduced in [...]
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