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AMC’s ‘The Terror’ Deftly Blends Prestige and Horror
It has been a tough couple of years for AMC. Its flagship series, The Walking Dead, despite still being the highest-rated show on television, has been steadily leaking viewers and the effort to find another hit, whether it be another monster show or a prestige drama, like Mad Men or Breaking Bad, has been fruitless….
‘Elvis Presley: The Searcher’ Focuses on The Music, Not The Demons
Even 40 years after his death, 44 years after his last hit, everybody knows Elvis. He was the first rock and roll star, the first celebrity so popular to go by just his first name, our first true supernova celebrity, and at least the broad strokes of his meteoric rise and slow, sad fall are…
Tracy Morgan Breaks Good in ‘The Last O.G.’
Tracy Morgan more than earned his place at the top of Comedy Mountain a long time ago, with seven-year runs on both Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock, but his career was rudely interrupted in 2014 when he was in a near-fatal car accident that kept him out of action for over a year. Morgan…
Judd Apatow Pores Through ‘The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling’
When you think of the most influential comedians of all time, who comes to mind? Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Woody Allen, Steve Martin, Joan Rivers, Monty Python…. For most of us, the list would be pretty long before it got to Garry Shandling, who died two years ago of a heart attack, and is the…
The End is in Sight for ‘The Americans’
“How arrogant are you?” demands the anguished wife of the former KGB agent called back to duty in America. “You think the fate of the world rests on your shoulders?” It’s a common problem among characters on The Americans, which begins its sixth and final season Wednesday on FX, wrapping up an extraordinary run that,…
Season 3 of ‘Billions’: Worth It
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which would otherwise heal. –Francis Bacon When we last saw billionaire investor and sometime financial crook Bobby Axelrod (Damian Lewis) and his dogged, ethically flexible pursuer, U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti), Axe had seemingly checkmated Chuck, sabotaging the IPO that Chuck, his father, and…
The Money is In The Details For FX’s ‘Trust’
“The meek shall inherit the Earth — but not the mineral rights.” –J. Paul Getty One of the frustrations of reviewing TV can be when a show is particularly interesting, but it never catches on with the broader public for whatever reason. In the case of Trust, the new drama series premiering Sunday on FX,…