- July 21, 2008
- A Messy Benjamin Bratt Insists on Cleaning Up Others
And shadowy detectives run amok across the cable dial.
- July 14, 2008
- HBO’s Terrific Summer Buzz Kill
From the folks who brought you The Wire, a Baghdad dystopia that’s bleaker than Baltimore.
- June 23, 2008
- Witness Protected
Will this summer’s sexiest slam-bang drama make it out alive?
- June 9, 2008
- Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Yes, his mother perished in the Holocaust. Yes, his wife was murdered by the Manson gang.
- June 9, 2008
- Sybil
Sybil asks us immediately to accept shattered crystal and Russian matryoshka dolls as twin images of a fine mind broken into jagged fragments and secret selves nesting inside one another.
- June 9, 2008
- Wife Swap, the Early Years
It’s 1976, and CBS’s Swingtown is stoned on Thorazine.
- May 12, 2008
- Never Leave Your Daughter Alone at the Circus
An American Crime’s explicit yet abstruse torturing of Ellen Page.
- March 31, 2008
- America (The Cable Show)
A newly naturalized Tracey Ullman riles up her adopted country, Arianna Huffington included.
- March 24, 2008
- Five Years In
If you’ll watch only one television program on the catastrophe in Iraq, make it this one.
- March 10, 2008
- The Frog Prince
Paul Giamatti’s John Adams is no swashbuckler, but the HBO show rises like a hot-air balloon.
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