The cliffhanger ending to last week’s episode had the team reunited under a familiar leader, squaring off against another galactic enemy – except though the leader looks familiar, and is played by the same actor (Clark Gregg), he’s a different, darker guy altogether. But he’s proven his worthiness to lead them into battle, so here we go…

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JETT By David Bianculli

Last episode included a flashback to Jett’s time in a women’s prison, when she defended a newbie prisoner against a vicious group of predatory inmates. This series has jumped backward in time so many times, in fact, that I’m pretty sure we’re now watching Jett (Carla Gugino) live through a flashback within a flashback within yet another flashback. Not even the Austin Powers movies did that much leapfrogging flashbacking…

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STRANGER THINGS By David Bianculli

SEASON PREMIERE: Now that HBO’s Game of Thrones is gone, Netflix’s Stranger Things probably holds the crown right now as the TV offering most anticipated, and most rabidly consumed, by today’s genre enthusiasts, especially of the younger generation. Season 3 is unveiled today, in a full-season burst of episodes that the show’s most fervent fans might well consume in toto before the arrival of tonight’s fireworks. And anyone else sampling the firs

2019

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YANKEE DOODLE DANDY, 1776 & THE MUSIC MAN By David Bianculli

Tonight at 8 p.m. ET, TCM presents a triple feature of patently patriotic movies – all of them glorifying, in various degrees, the flag, the country, and small-town America. First up is James Cagney’s portrayal of showman George M. Cohan in this 1942 musical biography, where Cagney steamrolls through every scene with a crackling overdose of energy. The 1972 musical 1776, starring William Daniels as John Adams (pictured) in a tuneful exploration of the writing of our country&rsqu

2019

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THE CAREER OF COLBIE CAILLAT AND HER JOURNEY TO 'A CAPITOL FOURTH' By Mike Hughes

Singer/Songwriter Colbie Caillat seems to have this pop star thing backward...

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FIFA WOMEN'S WORLD CUP SOCCER 2019 By David Bianculli

Yesterday, the U.S. women’s team bested England, 2-1 in regulation, to advance to the World Cup finals as defending champions. The opponent in that final will be the victor of today’s game, which is a semifinal Dutch treat: Sweden vs. the Netherlands. Sweden is a familiar opponent, especially to the U.S. women’s squad, at the World Cup, but this is only the second time the Dutch team, the Netherlands, has qualified for World Cup play – so to be this close to a final is, f

2019

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NORTH BY NORTHWEST By David Bianculli

I was having an editorial meeting with a member of the TVWW staff recently (okay, it was a phone call, with Linda), and I insisted that, no matter whether I owned a DVD of a film or had seen it dozens of times, whenever I recommended a film in Bianculli’s Best Bets, I was likely to watch it again that night on TV. Alfred Hitchcock’s 1959 masterpiece of whimsical mystery, starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint, is repeated tonight at 8 p.m. ET on TCM – and even though

2019

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FIFA WOMEN'S WORLD CUP SOCCER 2019 By David Bianculli

This first semifinal game of the 2019 FIFA women’s World Cup pits the U.S.A. against the England team, which means three of this tournament’s four top scorers will take the field at the same time: forward Ellen White for the England team, and Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe for the U.S. squad. Each of these women has scored five goals thus far in the tournament – and it’s likely at least one, in today’s highly anticipated game, will add to her personal total.

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30 FOR 30: "THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE HUNGRY" By David Bianculli

July 4 is just around the corner, which means so is the annual competitive food-bingeing competition, Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest. This new 30 for 30 documentary widens the definition of sports by following the rivalry, a dozen years ago, of Takeru Kobayashi and Joey Chestnut, two of competitive eating’s most memorable masticators.

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A TRIP TO THE MOON & METROPOLIS By David Bianculli

Tonight TCM presents a double feature combining two silent movie masterpieces, each of which is a dizzyingly inventive and pioneering work of science fiction. First is George Melies’ 1902 short film A Trip to the Moon, basically the first sci-fi film ever made. Then, at 8:30 p.m. ET, comes Fritz Lang’s 1927 masterwork Metropolis, with one of cinema’s all-time most famous robots: the Maschinenmensch, played by Brigitte Helm in both human and mechani

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