Television Review | 'We Got to Do Better' : People Being Themselves, and Other Sorry Tales
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Based on the two most recent episodes, âWe Got to Do Better,â on BET, is more of a shrug than a wince.
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&quot;You bums and ingrates! You disgraced your sport and country! Matador defense and half-hearted effort? At the Olympics? The Commies cheated us in &#39;72, and our college kids weren&#39;t good enough in &#39;88, but this is unacceptable. So carry your sorry fannies ...
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It is not merely the season for giving but also of distraction and avoidance. It is, in other words, the time to hide out with the best of long-form narrative television.
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Buck up. There are plenty of folks a lot worse off than you.
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Learn a little about yourself, and it may improve your performance.
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âBreaking and Enteringâ climaxes in a welter of apologies. Everyone in London, it seems, has cause for remorse and for my part I regret that I lost count of the number of times the words âIâm sorryâ were uttered on screen.
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Townspeople had a hard time squaring an unsavory past with their wholesome self-image.
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Life hardens us and art desensitizes us. Is the culture of violence turning us into creatures without empathy? Commentary by Tony Long.
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As usual, television didn't get it right. The '80s TV series Falcon Crest was never as good as the reality show The Sebastianis.
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TV court shows offer campy, hammed up summary justice, but they feed the viewersâ vicarious craving for told-you-so retribution.
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The attention-deficit generation has been supplanted by the bipolar generation, we learn in Tuesday nightâs âFrontlineâ on PBS.
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Americans tiring of a season of relentless goodwill can relieve their frustrations tomorrow by tuning in for the latest episode in a particularly bad-blooded Hollywood soap opera.
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A PBS documentary makes the case that Americans have tuned out marketers pitching everything from cars to candidates. The result: even more crass attempts to get through, and a fragmentation of American society. By Jason Silverman.
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Incidents throw harsh light on a culture fed by talk radio and disrespect for authority.
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Some people might resent being mocked on national television by Bob Eubanks. But Mark Fordham is philosophical about it.
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ÂHeroesÂ acts out the fantasy that supernatural forces can improve life. ÂRunawayÂ has a bleaker message: One little mistake can really mess it up.
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A serious discussion on pressing national issues may be good for the country. But it isnât necessarily good television.