dvr this On Netflix A week before the new animated version of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s novella The Little Prince was about to be released in theaters, Paramount bizarrely decided against distributing it. Netflix scooped it up and it’s now streaming. This new film is only vaguely related to the book; that the aviator is in…
dvr this HBO, Sundays, 10:30 p.m. It’s distressing that the insane political antics in Veep only seem slightly exaggerated in comparison to the horror that is the 2016 presidential campaign. But the jokes in Veep are much better. Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays Selena Meyer, who became president after being vice president for the first several seasons…
dvr this HBO, Sunday, 9pm Last year’s season finale of the sword and sorcery epic series Game of Thrones ended with the seeming death of one of the show’s three main characters. People drop dead left and right on that show, but fans all assumed that at least noble warrior Jon Snow (Kit Harrington), Machiavellian-with-a-heart…
dvr this ABC, Sundays, 9 p.m. In some ways, Joan Allen is playing a very similar character in The Family to the one she played in last fall’s Room. Both had teenage children kidnapped by sexual predators who returned years later. But her character in Room is doting, kind and selfless. In the new TV…
dvr this NBC, Thursday, 8 p.m. A co-production of NBC and Britain’s Sky TV, You, Me and the Apocalypse mines comedy from the last four weeks before a comet strikes the Earth and kills all life. That it works is rather impressive, and it’s all in Iain Hollands’s writing. The plotting is full of insane…
dvr this HBO, Sundays, 9 p.m. HBO’s latest newest prestige drama was created by Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese and it focuses on the 1970s music business in New York. With that pedigree, it shouldn’t be surprising that the show is full of drugs, sex, violence, raw rock and roll and sublime R&B. Bobby Cannavale…
On Netflix dvr this Michael Showalter and David Wain’s 2001 cult classic Wet Hot American Summer is funny but is particularly impressive for having cast so many eventually super-famous people: Amy Poehler, Paul Rudd, Bradley Cooper, Elizabeth Banks and Ken Marino joined already or at-the-time famous Christopher Meloni, Janeane Garofalo, Zak Orth and Marguerite…
dvr this THE CW, Tuesdays, 9 p.m. When I watched the premiere of iZombie, I felt like I was wrapped in a familiar blanket of easy fun. Then I discovered it was created by Rob Thomas, who also gave us Veronica Mars. And iZombie is a cross between that iconic CW show and Buffy the…
dvr this On Netflix Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, who created 30 Rock, arguably one of the greatest sitcoms in history, have dropped 13 episodes of their follow-up. It is a comedy about an absurdly cheerful woman (Ellie Kemper) who spent 15 years in a cult, isolated from the world. After being rescued, she moves…
dvr this Logo, Mondays, 9 p.m. It actually doesn’t matter when Logo airs Drag Race because it gets repeated constantly, but new episodes arrive on Mondays. In case you’ve been living in a hole, the show is American Idol crossed with Project Runway, but for drag queens. These queens have acting challenges, costume challenges, photo-shoot…
