Sticking the ending
On the eve of the Winter Olympics, Lifetime dramatizes one of the greatest stories from the 2012 summer games. Gabby Douglas (Sydney Mikayla, Imani Hakim) became the first African American [...]
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Posted January 29, 2014in On The Tube
Posted January 22, 2014in On The Tube
You go, ‘Girls’
Everyone without HBO keeps asking me: Is the third season of “Girls” any good? Does the series hold up as a satire of post-collegiate millennials grasping for meaning in New [...]
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Posted January 15, 2014in On The Tube
#SherlockNotDead
When last we saw Sherlock Holmes on “Masterpiece” two years ago, he had seemingly jumped to his death as a way of saving his friends. Since then fans have speculated [...]
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Posted January 08, 2014in On The Tube
The existentialist cop
Matthew McConaughey turned in a performance for the ages in “Dallas Buyers Club,” and damned if he doesn’t turn in another in “True Detective” (Sunday, 8 p.m., HBO). He plays [...]
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Posted January 01, 2014in On The Tube
Getting away with murder
You might not think you want to watch a two-hour documentary about chemicals. But “The Poisoner’s Handbook” tells a fascinating tale about pioneers in the use of toxicology for criminal [...]
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Posted December 25, 2013in On The Tube
Honoring the wrong pianist
This year’s “Kennedy Center Honors” (Sunday, 8 p.m., CBS) celebrates jazz innovator Herbie Hancock, guitarist Carlos Santana, movie star Shirley MacLaine, opera singer Martina Arroyo and pianist Billy Joel for [...]
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Posted December 18, 2013in On The Tube
I still love Lucy
What are the odds of a black-and-white 1950s sitcom being funny in 2013? Extremely low — unless the sitcom is “I Love Lucy.” In the “I Love Lucy Christmas Special” [...]
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Posted December 11, 2013in On The Tube
Crime-fighting through song
Creator Steve Franks has made a success out of “Psych,” the comedy-drama about a private investigator who fakes psychic powers but now faces the challenge of freshening things up after [...]
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Posted December 04, 2013in On The Tube
‘Bonnie and Clyde,’ superstars
The real Bonnie and Clyde were grotesque killers with no redeeming qualities. But the new TV movie “Bonnie and Clyde” (Sunday and Monday, 8 p.m., A&E, Lifetime and History) swathes [...]
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Posted November 27, 2013in On The Tube
‘Treme,’ a last jam
The final run of “Treme” (Sunday, 8 p.m., HBO) begins with Barack Obama’s election in 2008. We see a clip of Obama alluding to Sam Cooke’s “A Change Is Gonna [...]
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