- 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.
- February 18, 2008
- The Believer
The kooky, mystical Eli Stone asks, �What Would George Michael Do?�
- January 21, 2008
- High Schools These Days
The broke chemistry teacher in Breaking Bad turns out to be pretty handy in a meth lab.
- January 14, 2008
- Future Fighters
The Terminator franchise lands on television with atavistic androids and a sizzling Sarah Connor.
- January 7, 2008
- Twilight Over Baltimore
The Wire draws to a close, but not before zeroing in on one more failed institution.