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2019
Oct
3
2019 NATIONAL LEAGUE DIVISION SERIES By David Bianculli
 
 
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
THE UNICORN By David Bianculli
 
 
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
PERFECT HARMONY By David Bianculli
 
 
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
THE GOOD PLACE By David Bianculli
 
 
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
EVIL By David Bianculli
 
 
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
FOX'S 'ALMOST FAMILY' BRINGS ANOTHER IMMORAL DAD TO PRIMETIME By David Hinckley
 
 
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...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Oct
2
WHO KNEW AN OCTOPUS WOULD LIKE TV? SEE HER ON PBS' 'NATURE' WITH 'OCTOPUS: MAKING CONTACT' By Mike Hughes
 
 
It can be one person's biggest fear, and another's yummiest delicacy...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Oct
2
'ALMOST FAMILY' IS THE LATEST DRAMEDY THAT HAS POSSIBILITIES By Mike Hughes
 
 
Almost Family is an almost-terrific show that reminds us of what's possible...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Oct
2
NATURE: "OCTOPUS: MAKING CONTACT" By David Bianculli
 
 
Tonight’s new Nature hour, called “Octopus: Making Contact,” presents a lot of interesting information about what scientists know about octopi, but also has some fascinating segments about what we don’t know. For example: do they dream? And if they do, what of? There’s a segment in which photographers capture footage of a sleeping octopus, and all the chameleonic changes it goes through while… dreaming? It begs for a new variation on a poem by Ogden
 
 
 
  
 
 
2019
Oct
2
2019 AMERICAN LEAGUE WILD-CARD GAME By David Bianculli
 
 
Last night, the National League presented its Wild-Card Game, and it was a doozy, with the Milwaukee Brewers taking the lead, then falling victim to a dramatic comeback rally and victory by the Washington Nationals. Tonight, two American League teams face the same do-or-die scenario: The Oakland Athletics host the Tampa Bay Rays, and only one of them will advance to the next round.
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
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In the Final Season, Sutton Foster's Liza is Now the Genuine Version of Her 'Younger' Self
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Season 2 of 'City on a Hill' Returns with Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge, and Boston Corruption
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