By: Bill Cushing – 08-26 Paula, is a newly divorced mother, who believes she witnessed a crime and starts investigating while dealing with her own problems. Her search pulls her into blackmail and murder as the situation expands into a wider conspiracy that grows more dangerous the deeper she goes. That’s the premise of the […]
Crayone Classics: 35 Years of Independent Music Few independent artists can say they’ve built a career spanning 35 years while staying true to their own vision. In 2026, Bylli Crayone celebrates that remarkable milestone with the release of Crayone Classics, a newly remastered retrospective honoring three and a half decades of infectious, 80s- and 90s-inspired […]
By: Bill Cushing 7-26 Ben Reilly (Nicolas Cage) is a down on his luck gumshoe in Depression era New York, haunted by his past. You see, because of something that happened to him during the war, Ben has your typical Spider-Man style powers, and his past was a secret vigilante life as “The Spider,” the […]
By: Bill Cushing 6-26 Widow’s Bay, a charming island 40 miles off the coast of New England, has a lot going for it. It has beautiful coastal views, invigorating ocean breezes, and atmospheric fog banks. Tom Loftis (Matthew Rhys), the beleaguered and somewhat skeptical mayor of the island desperately wants to turn the struggling community […]
By: Bill Cushing 5-26 AMC’s ‘Dark Winds,’ my recommendation for this month, is set in 1971 on a remote outpost of the Navajo Nation near Monument Valley. Sheriff Joe Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon) is a good sheriff, but his personal life is a mess after losing his son. Alongside him is his wife Emma, played by […]
By: Billy Cushing 4-26 Greg Russo, a famous author known for his breezy “beach reads,” and whose fictional protagonist is nicknamed Rooster, pays a visit to the college campus where his daughter Katie is a professor. He says he’s there to do a reading of one of his beloved novels for the university’s literary professor, […]
By: Bill Cushing 3-26 A cynical intelligence agent tasked with overseeing the ragtag crew of Slough House, an outpost of British foreign intelligence where the worst spies in MI5—the ones who have screwed up to an almost unforgivable degree are put out to pasture in the hopes that they’ll never be heard from again or […]
By Bill Cushing After a virus turns most of humanity into a hive mind, novelist Carol Sturka (Rhea Seehorn), who is immune to the virus, must now deal with being isolated and alone among an eerie and endlessly positive population who have been joined together as one. That is how AppleTV’s new series ‘Pluribus’ […]
By: Bill Cushing 1-26 It’s that time of year again. That time when all TV people start thinking about the best shows that they watched over the past year. As usual, it was tough to leave some shows off the list, but here are my picks for the best TV had to offer in 2025. […]
By: Bill Cushing 11.25 From time to time, my column will feature questions asked by readers regarding the world of TV. Feel free to email me with any questions you may have about TV at BillsTVTalk@gmail.com, and I’ll do my best to answer you and may feature your question in a future column. Here’s […]
By: Bill Cushing – 10-25 ‘Task,’ my recommendation for this month, starts with what appears to be a daily ritual. A morning prayer. A fatherly nose rub. A facial plunge into a sink full of ice. A thermos of coffee. It’s through this montage which we meet our protagonists: Tom Brandis (Mark Ruffalo), a former […]
By: Bill Cushing 9/25 My recommendation for this month, ‘Platonic’ is the story of a fortysomething man and woman, college best friends, trying to maintain a platonic friendship amidst familial, marital, and career ups and down. The half-hour comedy’s title is somewhat misleading. Don’t look for a romantic “will they or won’t they?” storyline here. […]
By Bill Cushing – 8/25 Detective Renée Ballard, recently ousted from the Robbery and Homicide Division for blowing the whistle on a popular cop, finds herself sequestered in the basement, in command of LAPD’s newly formed Cold Case Division. ‘Ballard’ is my recommendation for this month. We first met Detective Renee Ballard (Maggie Q) in […]
By: Bill Cushing – 6/25 Andrew Cooper, or “Coop” as just about everybody calls him, once had a perfect life of luxury among his neighbors in Westmont Village. Now it’s spiraling out of control. We first see him laying in a pool of blood next to a dead body, before we’re transported back four months […]
By: Bill Cushing 5-25 Matt Remick is the newly appointed head of Continental Studios; desperate for celebrity approval, he and his executive team at the movie studio must juggle corporate demands with creative ambitions as they try to keep movies alive and relevant. That’s the basic premise of the hilarious new series ‘The Studio” from […]