Emily St. James
Former Critic at Large
Latest articles by Emily St. James
Kavanaugh didn’t need to impress the public at large. He had a much smaller audience in mind.
The new Murphy Brown wants to save the world. Here’s how that worked in the ’90s.
Plus: Murphy Brown is back, and God Friended Me isn’t as bad as “a show about God friending a guy on Facebook” sounds.
CBS’s FBI, NBC’s New Amsterdam, FX’s Mr. Inbetween, and ABC’s A Million Little Things all boast intriguing elements.
There’s just an endless onslaught of new TV. Hooray?
The new series charts a young widow’s grief and gives Elizabeth Olsen a part worthy of her talent.
The new miniseries is incredibly fun to watch, but emptier and emptier the more you think about it.
It only underlines the blind spots of its writer-director, This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman.
“You have to learn the material within 15, 20 minutes,” says the late-night bandleader of his daunting job.
“Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”