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‘The Flash’ finale breaks the time barrier

June 15, 2018 at 5:09 p.m.

Even for a speedster, "The Flash" chewed up so much ground in its first season that one began to wonder what showrunners Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg could possibly do...

Recap: ‘Jane the Virgin’ finale delivers

June 16, 2018 at 5:22 p.m.

What a wire-to-wire run for "Jane the Virgin." Having been greeted last fall with paeans of praise from critics, the show fulfilled the promise of its pilot, maintaining a sweet,...

Jim Parsons stars as Sheldon in "The Big Bang Theory," on CBS.

‘Big Bang Theory’ finale rings out eighth season

June 16, 2018 at 5:59 p.m.

"The Big Bang Theory" has consistently bucked trends, including the one that would suggest a comedy in its eighth season might begin to grow tired and stale. Instead, the show...

Nowa Paye, 9, is taken to an ambulance after showing signs of the Ebola virus disease in the village of Freeman Reserve, about 30 milesnorth of Monrovia, Liberia in 2014. The World Health Organization said on April 28 that it aims to identify all new Ebola cases in West Africa by the end of May to stop the spread of the lethal virus before the rainy season.

Review: Frontline’s ‘Outbreak’

June 15, 2018 at 6:09 p.m.

Crafted like a cinematic thriller, Frontline's "Outbreak" perhaps appropriately shares its title with a 1995 movie, although the situations and stakes here are all too sobering and real. A tick-tock...

Actress Taryn Manning attends Women's Health Hosts Hamptons "Party Under The Stars" for RUN10 FEED10 at Bridgehampton Tennis and Surf Club on Aug. 9, 2014 in Bridgehampton, New York.

Review: ‘Cleveland Abduction’

June 15, 2018 at 7:08 p.m.

The filmmakers struggle to find redeeming features in the uncomfortable and claustrophobic "Cleveland Abduction," a sickening tale of brutality and rape that the main character endured for more than a...

Review: Netflix’s ‘Grace and Frankie’

June 16, 2018 at 5:53 p.m.

The combination of demographic audacity (female protagonists ... in their 70s?) and nostalgia (reuniting "9 to 5" co-stars Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin) is more interesting than anything else in...

Review: ‘The Casual Vacancy’

December 17, 2018 at 7:44 p.m.

Wrestling J.K. Rowling's 500-page book into a three-hour miniseries flummoxes "The Casual Vacancy," a project made with considerable ambition and lyricism, yet which feels scattered and unfocused. Rowling's deviation from...

Actor Ben Affleck listens to testimony during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on March 26 in Washington, DC.

Ben Affleck-PBS storm is just a media tempest in a teapot

April 5, 2019 at 11:27 p.m.

Perspective is often the first casualty in any juicy story. And so it is with the kerfuffle over Ben Affleck asking Henry Louis Gates Jr. to edit his slave-owning ancestry...

Bruce Jenner: Just one more act in the Kardashian family circus

June 15, 2018 at 6:48 p.m.

Transgender activists have expressed understandable concern about the "spectacle"-like coverage surrounding Bruce Jenner, which will be punctuated by ABC News' two-hour Diane Sawyer interview on April 24. Yet whatever else...

Review: ‘Turn: Washington’s Spies,’ season 2

June 15, 2018 at 7:51 p.m.

At the risk of sounding unpatriotic, perhaps it's time to temporarily retire the Revolutionary War as a dramatic TV backdrop. Following "Sons of Liberty," the miniseries that presented history in...

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