(Author’s note: I had actually written a review of “Part Five” – a damn good one, false modesty aside – and Margaux pointed out to me that it was cut off mid-sentence. I went...

With “Part Three,” Show Me a Hero becomes the bitter polemic it threatened to become with its first two installments. This is an angry, remonstrative hour of television, but remarkably it never veers into hysteria or...

Show Me a Hero really wastes no time, does it? The show is clearly aiming at an American epic, a story spanning years, with a huge cast of characters. So far it’s succeeding on all...

It would be so easy for Show Me a Hero to be cynical. This is a show that features people actively resisting change, whether by loudly protesting the addition of low-income housing buildings to their neighborhood,...