Prime-time, Sunday-night TV is not usually expected to make us smarter or more informed citizens. Amuse, entertain, engage and occasionally transport — those have traditionally been the primary functions of the TV series and shows we sit down with at the end of our weekend for some relaxation and...
Even by the contentious standards of President Donald Trump’s generally troubled relationship with the press, what happened Wednesday at the White House between him and reporters from CNN, NBC, PBS and American Urban Radio Networks is truly shocking. The president directed his greatest anger toward...
Donald Trump’s shocking 2016 victory challenged a lot of conventional truths about media and political campaigning. Since he spent almost nothing on TV advertising, analysts started questioning the wisdom of spending millions on ads. Trump’s Twitter success further raised questions about the need...
There is no story that I wrote about more in the last couple of years than President Donald Trump’s effort to build an unprecedented right-wing messaging machine wedding platforms like Fox News and the Sinclair Broadcast Group to his presidency. But in my worst fears about what that would look...
NBC, Fox News and Facebook pulled a Trump campaign anti-immigrant advertisement that is widely considered to be racist. CNN refused to run the ad last week, but other outlets accepted it, including NBC, where the ad aired during “Sunday Night Football,” which has audience of about 20 million. In...
There is no telling what lies President Donald Trump will throw out there in the next 24 hours on the eve of this crucial midterm election. The big one he is pushing is the imminent danger of a “caravan” of refugees heading toward the southern border of the United States. He claims it contains...
I swear on Oprah: “THIS IS US” IS BACK, US-ERS! Wait, no. TIssUes? Pearsons of Interest? I don’t know. Anyway. Let’s dive in to the premiere of Season 3 and see where our favorite family is headed this year! Here’s your one and only spoiler warning: If you aren’t all caught up, head somewhere else...
Well, right off the bat (sports pun only kind of intended) I can tell you what I don't like about this “Dancing With the Stars” season: They're doing an elimination tonight based on votes received during the show. So many things wrong with that. First, couples dancing later in the show are receiving...
Bring yourselves back online, my friends. I’m taking a busman’s holiday of sorts from recapping “This Is Us” to recap the, er, challenging “Westworld.” Y’all want to hear something hilarious? I thought the different time periods in “This Is Us” were difficult to manage. HAHAHAHAHA hoo boy, I crack...
Each week William Lee and Nina Metz recap and discuss the second season of “Westworld,” which airs Sundays on HBO. Note: Spoilers ahead We pick up in the aftermath of Season 1, as the park’s robots continue to exact bloody revenge on their human tormentors. 1. The hosts have taken control Will...
I’ve got to confess: I teared up a little there. I’m not sure those tears were fairly won on Sunday’s season finale of “The Walking Dead,” an episode that gave us, at last, the end of the All-Out War. I’m not sure I shouldn’t be approaching the end of the eighth season with the same skepticism...