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2018
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SEASON FINALE: This is the last episode of the season for Homer Simpson and family – and it’s Season 29, which is quite impressive indeed. And tonight’s episode, “Flanders’ Ladder,” has Homer undergoing an out-of-body experience – which is just as well, because the body he’s had since the show’s 1989 premiere has been nothing to hold on to anyway.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
20
 
 
MINISERIES FINALE: This new three-hour version of the Louisa May Alcott classic concludes tonight, with Maya Hawke continuing her starring role as Jo. Check local listings.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
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In last week’s episode, there was a lot of betrayal. Eve, played by Sandra Oh, traveled to Moscow with her boss, who met with high-level Russian informants – one of whom, unknown to them both (or at least, if you’re paranoid, to Eve), was the handler of the very assassin they’re chasing, the deadly Villanelle (Jodie Comer). But that same handler was playing shady with his own charge, and had given Villanelle the assignment to return to the prison where she once was impris
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
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The backstage access demonstrated in this show – who gets where, and gets to talk to whom – is impressive each and every week. But I’ve found that it’s not wise to approach this fast-paced, as-it-happens political documentary series on an empty stomach, because so much of the discussion, and so many of the interviews, take place in restaurants and bars, where the dishes are photographed more lovingly than in travel series on classic eateries.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
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In Game 2 of this Western series, the Houston Rockets evened its series against the Golden State Warriors 1-1. And now it’s Game 3…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
20
 
 
SERIES FINALE: Technically, this is a series finale with an asterisk. After five seasons, Brooklyn Nine-Nine indeed is ending its run on the Fox network, and this episode, built around the long-planned, still somewhat iffy wedding of Jake and Amy, is the final entry in the Fox batch. But now that Fox has canceled the series, NBC has picked it up, and will continue the narrative in the fall. So even though Nine-Nine has been deep-sixed, it’s not over quite yet.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
20
 
 
This is Episode 5 of Season 2, and it’s taken this long for Westworld to venture into new uncharted territory – which it does, in this episode, as Maeve (Thandie Newton) ventures into the strange new fantasy land known as Shogun World. No Richard Chamberlains in sight, though...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
20
 
 
Last week’s show built to a great climax utilizing the song “Handle with Care” by the Traveling Wilburys, and gave a wonderful scene to Maggie Siff as Wendy, who got to face down Chuck’s father, and pay him back, and then some, for humiliating her earlier. The crux of the episode was that she persuaded Chuck not to run for New York governor, thwarting his father’s plans. So what comes now? For Chuck, it means staying put in the New York southern district attorney&rs
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
20
 
 
More allegations of payments by Michael Cohen, this time to other women in the Trump universe. Another fatal school shooting. A royal wedding. The one-year anniversary of the Mueller investigation, and calls by both Rudy Giuliani and Mike Pence to end the probe. For John Oliver, it’s just another week… and once again, I can’t wait to see how he reacts to it.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2018
May
20
 
 
Television seems to have an unusually full slate of military-related programming for Memorial Day this year, and the Smithsonian Channel helps kick it off Sunday at 8 p.m. ET with Carriers at War...