I am finally getting around to binge-watching “The Americans,” the FX series that just ended after five seasons. I remember checking out the first episode when it aired and not being impressed enough to continue, but on second viewing I was hooked. I became even more so when Margo Martindale showed up as a regular […]
If you’re looking for a streaming show to binge-watch, my wife and I suggest the BBC series “Shetland,” which is now on Netflix. Based on a series of novels by Ann Cleeves, it takes place on the Shetland Islands in Scotland, where Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez has to solve murders and other crimes with his […]
When the movie “Hidden Figures” came out a year and a half ago, I wrote about how much I enjoyed it, but how upset I was that we’d never been taught an important piece of NASA history — the role of African-American women in getting us into space. Now I’m even more upset after watching […]
If you’re a regular reader of this site, you know that my wife and I have seen every episode of “The Amazing Race” and look forward to each new season. The host, Phil Keoghan, tweeted yesterday that they’ve just started recording Season 31, which will include teams made up of contestants who’ve already been on […]
Why would I buy tickets to see Steve Martin and Martin Short at The Fox Theatre later this year when I just watched their entire show on Netflix? Even if I had only seen bits and pieces of it, I still wouldn’t go because they didn’t make me smile, let alone laugh. The show’s subtitle, […]
NBC has announced that the next musical it will turn into a live television event is “Hair” (“The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical”). The first Broadway show with a rock and roll score, it debuted fifty years ago (after four months off-Broadway), right smack dab in the middle of the generation gap, the anti-war movement, the […]