Recent TV Reviews

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Wednesday, October 21 2009

Independent Lens: Butte, America

By Cynthia Fuchs

Butte, America shows that as copper mine owners focused on exploiting resources, relations with workers deteriorated over decades.

Tuesday, October 20 2009

Frontline: The Warning

By Cynthia Fuchs

The Warning reveals that at least one person, CFTC head Brooksley Born, spoke out against OTC derivatives, over a decade ago.

Monday, October 19 2009

Schmatta: Rags to Riches to Rags

By Cynthia Fuchs

According to Schmatta, the garment industry's early energy and hopefulness had roots in the workers themselves, their immigrant backgrounds, their ambitions, and their loyalties to one another.

Sunday, October 18 2009

Occupation

By Cynthia Fuchs

Tensions between beliefs -- business and family, religion and nation -- provide a thematic focus for Occupation, a four-hour miniseries airing on BBC America.

Wednesday, October 14 2009

Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak

By Cynthia Fuchs

Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak is appropriately erratic and weird, part documentary, part video diary, and part cunning fantasy.

Tuesday, October 13 2009

Frontline: Obamas War

By Cynthia Fuchs

Beyond daily and continually mutating concerns in Afghanistan, the intelligent and unsettling Obama's War looks at big-picture questions.

Independent Lens: Herb & Dorothy

By Cynthia Fuchs

The first film in the new season of PBS' exceptional series, Independent Lens, Herb & Dorothy presents the Vogels with a mix of wonder and affection.

Tuesday, October 6 2009

NCIS: Los Angeles

By Lesley Smith

From opening credits to closing clichés, NCIS: Los Angeles perpetuates the dominance of men as protagonists in primetime action drama.

Monday, October 5 2009

Outrage

By Cynthia Fuchs

"It's kind of hard to be public and closeted," quips Barney Frank, though Outrage shows repeatedly that this is exactly how best to describe secretly gay politicians.

Sunday, October 4 2009

Three Rivers: Series Premiere

By Lesley Smith

In Three Rivers, a transplant surgical genius and his team save bodies and soothe souls, amidst glistening transparent walls (so much for patient privacy) and high-tech 3D projections of ailing organs.

Locks of Love: The Kindest Cut

By Cynthia Fuchs

It's hard to lose your hair any time, of course, but when you're eight years old, the resulting feelings of strangeness and isolation can be devastating.

Thursday, October 1 2009

Finishing Heaven

By Cynthia Fuchs

Finishing Heaven gives Robert Feinberg enough rope to dangle his own self-image -- as lifelong rebel, precocious artist, and misunderstood genius.

FlashForward: Series Premiere

By Marisa LaScala

While the time travel in Lost remains inexplicable to this day, FlashForward was right away hard at work to ground any fantastic elements in reasonable phenomena.

Wednesday, September 30 2009

Modern Family: Series Premiere

By Leigh H. Edwards

In Modern Family, the several families comprise one big multicultural "Circle of Life."

Monday, September 28 2009

Lie to Me: Season Two Premiere

By Cynthia Fuchs

The very notion of truth as conveyed by a "real" or "true" self now seems almost quaint.

Sunday, September 27 2009

Dexter: Season Four Premiere

By Daynah Burnett

While Dexter’s criminal “hobby” is a potent metaphor for those aspects of manhood suppressed by domestication, he is rarely emasculated or empowered. He’s simply absent.

Friday, September 25 2009

Medium: Season Six Premiere

By Cynthia Fuchs

The many threads of trust and logic that inform this "conversation" about time, memory, and illogic are vintage Medium.

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