Television
From ‘Parks And Recreation,’ A Brief But Delightful Return To Pawnee
By Linda Holmes It’s been five years since Parks and Recreation ended its run, after a final season that jumped forward into the future — specifically, to 2017. We haven’t got the nifty transparent touchscreens their 2017 showed. Instead, we have a pandemic, and we have social distancing, and we are doing without many of our comforts, →
Inventive New Comedy ‘Upload’ Explores (Virtual) Life After Death
By David Bianculli We hardly get to know the lead character of new sci-fi comedy Upload — and the world →
‘Hollywood’ Serves Up A Progressive Alt-History Parable, Thinly Sliced
By Glen Weldon “My time in Washington,” Eleanor Roosevelt (Harriet Sansom Harris) says at one point in the →
‘Mrs. America’: A Star-Studded Cast Puts The ERA In The Spotlight
By Linda Holmes “With everything else going on in the world, now I gotta spend almost nine hours of my life thinking about Phyllis Schlafly?” It only seems honest to admit to this reaction to the approach of Mrs. America, a nine-part miniseries created by Dahvi Waller. It was made under the FX Networks umbrella, but →
Mindy Kaling Brings A New Nerd To TV, And Finds She ‘Was Not Alone’ As A Teen
When nerds are depicted on screen, they are often bookworms and wallflowers who struggle to stand up for →
Who’d Have Thought We’d Be Watching The ‘Homeland’ Finale To ‘De-Stress’?
By Mary Louise Kelly For eight seasons, Homeland has closely tracked real-life events and anxieties. Claire Danes played CIA officer →
‘Little Fires Everywhere’ Finds Families Ready To Collide
by Linda Holmes The great frustration of Little Fires Everywhere, the Hulu adaptation of Celeste Ng’s popular novel, is →
Netflix Promises To Quit Smoking On (Most) Original Programming
by Vanessa Romo There’s a scene in the hit Netflix series Stranger Things where the skeptical police chief, Chief Jim →
‘New Amsterdam’ Brings In The One Man Who Can Save Medicine (And The World)
You probably thought that the existing Coldplay version of the Coldplay song “Fix You” — which, by the →