There are two immediate takeaways from the movie “Nightbitch,” starring Amy Adams. movie review NIGHTBITCH Running time: 98 minutes. Rated R (language and some sexuality). In theaters Dec. 6. One that I hope most viewers know already is that motherhood is hard. The other is that trailers can be extremely misleading. The semi-fantastical comedy directed … Read more
Aisling Bea’s supporting role in “Alice & Jack” resonates with the Irish-born actress/comedian in its portrayal of a character type often shunted aside on screens big and small. Not so here. Bea (“This Way Up,” “Living With Yourself”) plays Lynn, the short-lived wife of Jack (Domhnall Gleeson), whose 15-year on-again/off-again romance with Alice (Andrea Riseborough) … Read more
Newly minted “Elsbeth” star Carrie Preston welcomes comparisons to “Columbo” — which helped inspire series creators Robert and Michelle King to transplant Elsbeth Tascioni from Chicago to New York City. “Robert and Michelle King told me that during the pandemic that they started watching ‘Columbo’ reruns and just loved them and found it comforting,” Preston, … Read more
Angela Lansbury would have turned 98 on Oct. 16 — and her “Murder, She Wrote” co-star, Louis Herthum, shared some memories of working with the legendary stage, screen and TV star, who passed away Oct. 11, 2022. Lansbury garnered 12 consecutive Emmy nominations for her starring role in “Murder, She Wrote” as sleuthing mystery writer … Read more
“Moonlighting” is back. ABC’s groundbreaking romantic comedy series starring Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis arrives Oct. 10 on Hulu in its streaming debut, 34 years after its final fadeout. “We tried to get the show on Disney+ when it was first announced and when the Hulu situation developed we explored that,” series creator Glenn Gordon … Read more
You’d think “The Bear” is the “Citizen Kane” of television dramedy, given all the critical hyperventilating/ kowtowing over Season 2, which premiered June 23 (the FX series streams exclusively on Hulu). It’s not — at least in the first half of this 10-episode season, already ruined for me by a Deadline interview with series star … Read more
Tom Arnold is back in the “True Lies” universe — this time on the small screen. Arnold, 64, guest-stars in Wednesday night’s episode of “True Lies” (10 p.m. on CBS) as Arnie, an ex-Omega operative living off-the-grid who, along with his onetime Omega flame, Sharon (Kate Vernon), is being targeted for murder years later by … Read more
Bob Odenkirk pivots effortlessly from his “Better Call Saul” bleakness to the world of small-town college academia in “Lucky Hank,” a pleasant AMC series that chugs along to the beat of its own foibles. He plays William Henry “Hank” Devereaux Jr., a once-semi-successful novelist who’s now chairing the English Department at underfunded Railton College somewhere … Read more
The spunky banter between “So Help Me Todd” stars Marcia Gay Harden and Sklyar Astin — by turns funny, offbeat and all-too-human — has driven the CBS dramedy to a breakout inaugural season … and an early Season 2 renewal. The series returns March 2 (9 p.m.) with new episodes after a two-week hiatus. It … Read more
Welcome to “Hello, Tomorrow,” where everything isn’t as it seems. The new Apple TV+ series, starring Billy Crudup as a fast-talking salesman with secrets, unfolds in a weird, hybrid world mixing 1950s attitudes, clothing and lifestyles with a quasi-steampunk futuristic flavor. It’s a world in which sandwiches cost 40 cents, people tool around in tail-finned, … Read more
Kudos to Milo Ventimiglia for smoothly switching gears from angst-ridden Jack Pearson to con artist Charlie Nicoletti in his new ABC romantic dramedy “The Company You Keep.” The series, premiering Feb. 19 at 10 p.m., frees Ventimiglia to unbuckle Jack’s suffocating, overwrought “This Is Us” straitjacket and breathe — and he exhales with an easygoing, … Read more
Season 2 of Mike White’s star-studded Emmy- winning HBO vacation dramedy “The White Lotus” returns with a mostly new cast and a new location. Premiering Sunday, Oct 30 at 9 p.m., the action kicks off in a similar manner to Season 1, which followed a star-studded cast (including Connie Britton, Sydney Sweeney, and Alexandra Daddario) … Read more