‘Fargo’ the flop
Only one word best describes the Coen Brothers’ 1996 movie “Fargo”: genius. It creates a parallel universe where a desperate family man contracts with criminals and gets tripped up by [...]
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Posted April 09, 2014in On The Tube
Posted April 02, 2014in On The Tube
King of the nerds
With “Beavis and Butt-head,” Mike Judge established himself as the bard of mumbling, antisocial, all-American nerds. But Judge tops himself with “Silicon Valley” (Sunday, 9 p.m., HBO), which locates the [...]
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Posted March 26, 2014in On The Tube
The dark and damp side of polygamy
For the life of me, I will never understand polygamy. Never mind that I watch TV for a living and thus am both intellectually and physically undesirable to a woman [...]
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Posted March 19, 2014in On The Tube
Latino boy makes good, then bad
In a stunning one-man show called “Ghetto Klown” (Saturday, 9 p.m., HBO), John Leguizamo presents a “cautionary tale.” He details his progression from a poor Latino boy to a showbiz [...]
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Posted March 12, 2014in On The Tube
The apocalypse, with acne
An icy CEO (Gillian Anderson), a troubled ex-CIA analyst (Dermot Mulroney) and other D.C. parents drop off their kids at an elite high school for a field trip. Before long, [...]
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Posted March 05, 2014in On The Tube
And a little child shall lead them
A 10-year-old girl named Bo (Johnny Sequoyah) has extraordinary powers, along with being extraordinarily cute. She can see the future, control nature and even save the world — that is, [...]
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Posted February 26, 2014in On The Tube
The Norman conquest
The acclaimed “Bates Motel” (Monday, 8 p.m., A&E) adapts Alfred Hitchcock’s horror classic “Psycho,” as Norma Bates (Vera Farmiga) and troubled son Norman (Freddie Highmore) run a motel in a [...]
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Posted February 19, 2014in On The Tube
It’s all in your head
Clark (Steve Zahn) is a disgraced academic with bipolar disorder. Russ (Christian Slater) is his perpetually exasperated con-man brother, just out of prison for fraud. This odd couple starts an [...]
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Posted February 12, 2014in On The Tube
Extraterrestrial without a cause
After aliens crash-land on Earth, the military herds them into a detention camp. They look just like humans — indeed, the gorgeous alien teenagers could easily be mistaken for stars [...]
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Posted February 05, 2014in On The Tube
Alice Walker, for and against
“Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth” (Friday, 8:30 p.m., PBS) tells the unlikely story of a poor African American sharecropper’s daughter who dedicates herself to changing the world and, against all [...]
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