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2019
Oct
4
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: If you’re still watching this series, it’s about to get very, very personal. Liz (Megan Boone, pictured) is still dealing with the abduction of her father, Red, played by James Spader – and the dealing doesn’t become easier now that it’s known that his kidnapper, and torturer, is none other than Liz’s other parent, her long-lost mom. The family that preys together… For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower. 
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Oct
4
 
 
SEASON PREMIERE: This is the Season 26 premiere for television’s most entertaining talk show, and the one where the talk, more than the clips or stunts, is front and center. Among tonight’s season-opening guests: Dame Helen Mirren, whose visits she always approaches with so much irreverence and honesty, she is nothing like a Dame…
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Oct
4
 
 
Speaking of irreverent talk: Tonight, Jeselnik’s guest is the always outspoken Tig Notaro. This ought to be good… and raw.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Oct
4
 
 
Peaky Blinders still sounds like a silly British slapstick romp. That's until you watch it and realize it's a dark, compelling Irish mob drama...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Oct
3
 
 
TBS presents a doubleheader tonight, presenting the first games in the respective National League division series. At 5 p.m. ET, we see the first postseason appearances of the St. Louis Cardinals and Atlanta Braves. Then, at 8:30 p.m. ET, the Washington Nationals, which won its wild-card game to advance, faces the Los Angeles Dodgers, which advanced to the postseason by winning its division in the West, as well as winning an amazing 106 games during the regular season.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Oct
3
 
 
Tonight’s schedule contains several examples of new prime-time broadcast series that presented likable premises and stars last week, and now have to show whether they’re worth watching on an ongoing basis. First case in point: Walton Goggins as a single-parent widower whose friends are pushing him back into the deep end of the dating pool.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Oct
3
 
 
Another case in point: Bradley Whitford, in last week’s series premiere, took the entire half hour to agree to coach a small-town choral outfit in an upcoming competition. So now what?
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Oct
3
 
 
Last week’s season opener reassured me that the final season of The Good Place will be a delightful one, with a predictably unpredictable series of twists and laughs. Not that I was worried: The Good Place is my favorite broadcast TV series right now, and I laugh every time I see Maya Rudolph, evil Janet, or one of the hidden-in-the-background restaurant names, like the Italian place, shown again last week, called “Lasagna Come Out Tomorrow.” Those names rem
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Oct
3
 
 
Last week’s series premiere of Evil set up the premise: Now we’ll see what Robert and Michelle King can do with it. Because they’ve already done The Good Wife and The Good Fight, I expect more good things.
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Oct
2
 
 
In pretty much any other television season, Timothy Hutton's Dr. Leon Bechley would run away with the coveted "worst father of the year" award...