What if you could improve yourself after you are dead? This appealing prospect drives two current TV comedies.
Television
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
Eight great TV shows from 2018
The very best television is like an Ignatian contemplation: It tells stories that offer us some kind of gift—an insight or encouragement for our lives.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
‘Brideshead Revisited’ changed my life. Can it work its magic on the ‘Downton Abbey’ generation?
A 11-part television adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s great novel aired weekly on PBS in 1981.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
The ghosts aren’t the most terrifying part of “The Haunting of Hill House”
No member of the Crain family is the same after their summer at the home.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
In Texas, all roads lead to tacos
In “The Tacos of Texas,” Mando Rayo and Jarod Neece explore Texas through the eyes of the taqueros, chefs, owners and abuelitas (“grannies”) responsible for taco culture.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
Ancient heresies find new expression in “Westworld” and “Altered Carbon”
Some of TV’s top sci-fi dramas are shot through with neo-gnostic assumptions.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
Review: Matthew Weiner’s ‘The Romanoffs’ is prestige TV gone bad
The fact is I can’t help but think of Weiner and his relationship with women as I’m watching his new series for Amazon.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
‘King Lear’ returns to film, prophetic as ever
A new adaptation from the BBC and Amazon makes ideal use of a sensational cast of British actors.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
“Bob’s Burgers” is back. Here’s why it’s one of the best shows on television.
“Bob’s Burgers,” created in 2011, returns for its ninth season on Sept. 30.
Posted inArts & Culture, Television
“God Friended Me” asks an important question that it fails to answer
In these crazy times we owe it to ourselves to ask the tough questions. Will “God Friended Me” help us to do so? As of yet, I am not convinced.