Network ****, The Hard Problem ****
By: David Sheward December 14, 2018:Â When the film Network was released in 1976, legendary screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky's wild portrait of an America saturated by media was seen as an hilarious fantasy. Now as internationally acclaimed director Ivo van Hove's stage version opens on Broadway after a smash run in London, the vision of a dumbed-down populace hypnotized by their screens seems tame in comparison to…