Breeanna, a 17-year-old from Nevada, is on a mission to find her biological father. She knows him only as Donor No. 1096 — the guy who happened to provide the sperm for her lesbian mothers. Through a website, she has tracked down 15 half-siblings scattered throughout the country. “Generation Cryo”
Read More →In 2048, law enforcement devises a new crime-fighting strategy: partnering each human detective with an android. The strategy didn’t work so well for Det. John Kennex (Karl Urban), whose android let him down during an ambush that left him in a coma for two years. John returns to the force
Read More →I’m powerless to resist a documentary about John F. Kennedy. Though I’m well aware of the late president’s faults, I’m drawn in by his charisma every time. I cheer his triumphs and bemoan his tragedies. And I always respond to images of the assassination, as if I’m seeing them for
Read More →Hard to believe, but in the four decades since Jimi Hendrix died, no one has made a great documentary about him. “Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin’ ” on “American Masters” fixes that problem (Tuesday, 8 p.m., PBS). It capably tells the story of Hendrix’s rise from impoverished Seattle
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Posted October 23, 2013in On The Tube
As an Orson Welles fanatic, I thought I knew everything about his infamous radio adaptation of “War of the Worlds” from 1938. The 23-year-old genius crafted the program as if Martians had actually invaded the U.S., with news bulletins seeming to interrupt regularly scheduled programming. Listeners believed the invasion was
Read More →In 16th century France, the virginal Mary, Queen of Scots (Adelaide Kane), is swept up in palace intrigue. Her fiancé (Toby Regbo) cares less for her than he does for France, nattering on about the political advantage of their union. An evil queen (Megan Follows) plots against her, while her
Read More →A companion to “Once Upon a Time,” “Once Upon a Time in Wonderland” (Thursday, 7 p.m., ABC) reinterprets Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” Alice (Sophie Lowe) faces a panel of doctors in Victorian England who don’t believe her stories of an invisible cat and a hookah-smoking caterpillar. They consider
Read More →Multi-camera laugh-track sitcoms have been in decline, but “The Millers” is one that works (Thursday, 7:30 p.m., CBS). Nate (Will Arnett) and Debbie (Jayma Mays) have always kept their distance from their insufferable parents (Beau Bridges, Margo Martindale), but that becomes impossible when Mom and Dad break up. She moves
Read More →Michael J. Fox is one of our most beloved sitcom stars (“Family Ties,” “Spin City”), and he’s become even more so during his fight with Parkinson’s disease. With “The Michael J. Fox Show” (Thursday, 8 p.m., NBC), he returns to sitcoms as an unconventional leading man, given the involuntary contortions
Read More →“The Goldbergs” wallows in a decade’s worth of shame and guilt The 1980s take a beating in “The Goldbergs” (Tuesday, 8 p.m., ABC). An adult narrator looks back on his childhood in the days when REO Speedwagon seemed profound and even middle-aged moms wore the Madonna hairdo. The Goldbergs are
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