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Television Review: A Rousing Documentary on the Liberal Gusto of Ann Richards

This fine, partisan documentary resurrects Ann Richards, and it’s showing on HBO in a Lone Star election year. The Republicans better worry about Texans seeing it.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State, Ann Richards, documentary, HBO, politics

Television Commentary: Whither Stephen Colbert?

Now that the dust has settled after the announcement that Stephen Colbert will be replacing David Letterman on “The Late Show” next year, it is time for some thoughtful analysis.

By: Matt Hanson Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Television Tagged: David Letterman, Matt Hanson, Stephen Colbert

TV Review: “Fargo”: or, Do Contract Killers Get Bored and Create Chaos for Fun?

“Fargo” creates its own world of crime and moral conundrums while delivering a fair share of blood. Whether the TV series delivers on its promise to be in the same aesthetic world as the original movie is an open question.

By: Rob Ribera Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Coen Brothers, Fargo, FX, Noah Hawley, Rob Ribera

Fuse TV Review: HBO’s “Silicon Valley” — The Comic Adventures of Nerd Musketeers

“Silicon Valley” is sharp fun for both the computer lingo-savvy and for the non-Tweet, non-Facebook crowd such as out-of-it me.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: comedy, HBO, High Tech, Silicon Valley

TV Review: Simon Schama Tells His “Story of the Jews”

Simon Schama just can’t stop going on about religion and the extra-special Jewish feel for beauty that has, to his mind, kept Judaism vibrant and intact through the ages.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: Harvey Blume, Jews, Simon Schama, Story of the Jews

Fuse Television Review: HBO’s “Doll & Em” — A Show Biz Satire That Loses Its Mojo

The first few episodes of HBO’s “Doll & Em” operate as a fairly funny show-biz satire, but then the series takes a nosedive into turgid melodrama.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: British comedy, Doll & Em, Dolly Wells, Emily Mortimer, HBO

TV Review: Give Some Love to TBS’s “The Pete Holmes Show”

Along with the absence of a desk, the fact that guests aren’t coming on in order to plug their latest whatever sets “The Pete Holmes Shows” apart from typical late-night fare.

By: Betsy Sherman Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: comedy, Peter Holmes, The Pete Holmes Show, You Made It Weird

Music Remembrance: February 9th, 1964 — “Hey, You Kids Want Tickets to See the Beatles?”

Arts Fuse writer Tim Jackson recalls the impact of being in the audience of the “Ed Sullivan Show” fifty years ago.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Television Tagged: Ed Sullivan Show, February 10. 1964, The Beatles

TV Review: HBO’s “Looking” — Gay Life as Sweet and Sincerely Humanist

Without being preachy, HBO’s “Looking” offers a fine lesson that being totally out of the closet, as are all the many characters, can lead to a cool cool (and also hot hot) existence.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: HBO, Looking, Michael Lannan

TV Review: HBO’s “True Detective” — A Work in Progress

Nic Pizzolatto’s scripts for “True Detective” have their moments but, self-consciously literary, they also are painfully overwritten.

By: Gerald Peary Filed Under: Featured, Review, Television Tagged: HBO, Matthew McConaughey, Nic Pizzolatto, True Detective, Woody Harrelson

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