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HBO's 'Succession' Focuses On Corrosive Weight Of Inherited Wealth

5:08pm June 01, 2018

by Eric Deggans

The corrosive effect of inherited wealth is at the center of at least three prestige dramas, including HBO's new show, Succession, Showtime's Patrick Melrose and FX's drama about the Getty family, Trust.

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Jerry Orbach, Angie Harmon, Sam Waterston and Jesse L. Martin, from the 1999 cast of Law & Order.

Pop Culture Happy Hour: The 'Law & Order' Universe

3:34pm June 01, 2018

by Linda Holmes

Sarah Bunting and Margaret Willison join the panel to talk about one of the most durable franchises in television history.

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Identity And The End Of 'The Americans'

11:32pm May 30, 2018

by Linda Holmes

The Americans concluded after six seasons on Wednesday night.

Steve Martin appears with Martin Short in the new Netflix special Steve Martin and Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life.

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Stream, Don't Steam: Holiday Weekend Watches For Your Lazy Bones

7:00am May 26, 2018

by Linda Holmes

We've rounded up just five of the things you can use to break up a hot and summery holiday weekend, from comedy to an indie film to classic banter.

Picnic at Hanging Rock was written by Joan Lindsay in 1967 and made into a very moody and memorable movie by director Peter Weir in 1975. Now, a new TV miniseries picks up the story of an ill-fated picnic in rural, turn-of-the-century Australia.

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Venture Into The Australian Wilderness For A Chilling 'Picnic At Hanging Rock'

4:59pm May 25, 2018

by David Bianculli

As the story goes, on Valentine's Day 1900, several students and their teacher slipped away from a holiday picnic and never returned. Amazon's new six-part TV miniseries explores the legend.

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ABC's Roseanne reboot stars (left to right) Laurie Metcalf, Ames McNamara, Jayden Rey, AliciaGoranson, Emma Kenney, Roseanne Barr, John Goodman, Michael Fishman and SaraGilbert.

'Roseanne' Reboot Wraps A Bait-And-Switch First Season

3:07pm May 23, 2018

by Eric Deggans

The reboot's premiere whipped up a media frenzy when its main character returned as a passionate Trump supporter. But this season didn't embrace Trump's ideology the way some thought it might.

Nicola Walker plays Hannah Stern, a high-billing divorce lawyer, on the British series, The Split.

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'The Split' Explores The Price And Permutations Of Breaking Up

3:08pm May 22, 2018

by John Powers

Sundance TV's new six-part series centers on a family of high-billing divorce lawyers whose own private lives are as messy as the cases they're handling.

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'Rocky And Bullwinkle' Reboot Is Good — Just Not As Great As The Original

1:58pm May 21, 2018

by David Bianculli

Critic David Bianculli describes Amazon's Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle as a slightly more stylized — though ultimately "hit and miss" — version of the classic cartoon.

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HBO's Heavy-Handed 'Fahrenheit 451' Lacks The Poetry Of Ray Bradbury's Original

2:21pm May 18, 2018

by David Bianculli

Critic Dave Bianculli says that the new TV movie "dilutes and deflates" the 1953 novel it draws from. Viewers should "skip the movie, and go back and read Bradbury's book."

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Erasing Himself From The Narrative: Fireman Guy Montag (Michael B. Jordan) contemplates conflagration in the HBO movie Fahrenheit 451.

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HBO's 'Fahrenheit 451' Is Halting, Never Catches Fire

5:00am May 18, 2018

by Glen Weldon

Director/co-writer Ramin Bahrani makes changes big and small to Ray Bradbury's dystopian tale. They help it resonate with our current moment — but make it even more bluntly polemical.