#Worth Watching: All-Star ‘Coastal Elites,’ ‘Van der Valk’ Mysteries, Bob Woodward on ’60 Minutes’

#Worth Watching: All-Star ‘Coastal Elites,’ ‘Van der Valk’ Mysteries, Bob Woodward on ’60 Minutes’

“#Worth Watching: All-Star ‘Coastal Elites,’ ‘Van der Valk’ Mysteries, Bob Woodward on ’60 Minutes’” A selective critical checklist of notable weekend TV: Coastal Elites (Saturday, 8/7c, HBO): There’s preaching to the converted — and then there’s ranting, as in this inspired collection of mostly comic monologues about life in a politically polarized society during a…

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#Ask Matt: ‘Mom’ Losing a Mom, Another ‘black-ish’ Spinoff, Netflix’s Away, the Return of ‘Wheel’ & More

#Ask Matt: ‘Mom’ Losing a Mom, Another ‘black-ish’ Spinoff, Netflix’s Away, the Return of ‘Wheel’ & More

“#Ask Matt: ‘Mom’ Losing a Mom, Another ‘black-ish’ Spinoff, Netflix’s Away, the Return of ‘Wheel’ & More” Welcome to the Q&A with TV critic—also known to some TV fans as their “TV therapist”—Matt Roush, who’ll try to address whatever you love, loathe, are confused or frustrated or thrilled by in today’s vast TV landscape. (We…

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#Worth Watching: Harry Belafonte’s Historic ‘Tonight Show’ Sit-In, NFL Returns, ‘Julie and the Phantoms’ Rock Netflix

#Worth Watching: Harry Belafonte’s Historic ‘Tonight Show’ Sit-In, NFL Returns, ‘Julie and the Phantoms’ Rock Netflix

“#Worth Watching: Harry Belafonte’s Historic ‘Tonight Show’ Sit-In, NFL Returns, ‘Julie and the Phantoms’ Rock Netflix” A selective critical checklist of notable Thursday TV: The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show (streaming on Peacock): Heeere’s … Harry! Over five February nights in the historically turbulent year of 1968, singer-actor-activist Harry Belafonte sat in Johnny…

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#Roush Review: Seriocomic Confessions From 5 ‘Coastal Elites’

#Roush Review: Seriocomic Confessions From 5 ‘Coastal Elites’

“#Roush Review: Seriocomic Confessions From 5 ‘Coastal Elites’” There’s preaching to the converted — and then there’s ranting. Or, as a title card describes HBO’s Coastal Elites, an inspired quintet of mostly comic monologues by playwright and master satirist Paul Rudnick, “Desperate confessions from people barely coping with the new abnormal.” With a stellar cast of…

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#Worth Watching: Get ‘Woke’ on Hulu, ‘Tiger King’ Follow-Up on ’48 Hours Suspicion,’ HGTV’s ‘Brother vs. Brother’

#Worth Watching: Get ‘Woke’ on Hulu, ‘Tiger King’ Follow-Up on ’48 Hours Suspicion,’ HGTV’s ‘Brother vs. Brother’

“#Worth Watching: Get ‘Woke’ on Hulu, ‘Tiger King’ Follow-Up on ’48 Hours Suspicion,’ HGTV’s ‘Brother vs. Brother’” Hulu Woke A selective critical checklist of notable Wednesday TV: Woke (streaming on Hulu): “I’m not controversial,” insists Black cartoonist Keef Knight (New Girl‘s disarming Lamorne Morris), who’s celebrating his arrival in the lucrative syndication marketplace with his…

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#Worth Watching: The Early Days of MTV, ‘Star Trek’ Day, ‘Transplant’ Welcomes the New Doc

#Worth Watching: The Early Days of MTV, ‘Star Trek’ Day, ‘Transplant’ Welcomes the New Doc

“#Worth Watching: The Early Days of MTV, ‘Star Trek’ Day, ‘Transplant’ Welcomes the New Doc” Trae Patton/CBS Star Trek: Picard A selective critical checklist of notable Tuesday TV: Biography: I Want My MTV (9/8c, MTV): The nostalgia is fierce in a colorful two-hour special looking back at the scrappy early years of the revolutionary cable…

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#Worth Watching: Big Cat Week, Travel the ‘Devil’s Road,’ Ozzy Osbourne’s ‘Nine Lives’

#Worth Watching: Big Cat Week, Travel the ‘Devil’s Road,’ Ozzy Osbourne’s ‘Nine Lives’

“#Worth Watching: Big Cat Week, Travel the ‘Devil’s Road,’ Ozzy Osbourne’s ‘Nine Lives’” Kevin Winter/Getty Images for iHeartMedia Biography: The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne A selective critical checklist of notable Monday TV: Jade Eyed Leopard (8/7c, Nat Geo WILD): The 10th annual Big Cat Week, as in previous years, delivers a message of conservation…

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