WEDNESDAY
JULY 1
2015

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

Fox Sports 1, 7:00 p.m. ET

The USA women’s team played a thrilling game Tuesday night, moving the ball and pushing the offense better than in any other match at this year’s tournament. Kelley O’Hara’s insurance goal near the end of the game, giving the USA a 2-0 lead over Germany, not only was the capper, but was a beautiful, and an exciting, play. Tonight’s game, Japan vs. England, is the other semifinal match, and the winner tonight will face USA on Sunday. Japan is the defending champion, and won four years ago by defeating the USA on penalty kicks – so the team for which you root tonight depends on whether you favor an easier draw or a global stage for revenge.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

Tonight’s prime-time doubleheader on TCM features individual movies by two Seventies movie stars who, a few years later, would team up for the classic All the President’s Men: Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman. And each of their respective movies tonight is an epic, rugged period piece, starting with Redford’s 1972 film, directed by Sidney Pollack, about a Rocky Mountain trapper in the 1830s. Redford is captivating here, playing against his matinee-idol looks, growing a grisly beard, and even confronting a grizzly bear.  It’s a poignant, poetic Western, quite unusual, and the landscape and weather are major characters. To Redford, they also were a major inspiration – it’s why he established his Sundance Film Festival in that part of the country in Utah, and why he moved there.

 
  
 
 

CBS, 10:00 p.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: Not necessarily a recommendation. Halle Berry’s futuristic mystery series returns for Season 2, and for those who remained intrigued by the goings-on last season, here it is again. The big change this year is that Jeffrey Dean Morgan has been added as a regular, playing a detective with whom she’s teamed to try and explain a series of puzzling deaths. Watch if you like – but if the subplot about the humanity level of her android son intrigues you, you’re much better off tuning in to AMC’s new Humans series, where the same themes are explored much, much more credibly, and emotionally.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 10:00 p.m. ET

This 1970 Dustin Hoffman epic, directed by Arthur Penn, is a comedy so subtle that while some scenes are played broadly, others are somewhat dramatic.  Hoffman plays a very, very old man (pictured) looking back on his life on the prairie, which includes being abducted and raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer (a delightful Richard Mulligan, from Soap). Faye Dunaway co-stars.

 
  
 
 

Crackle, 11:30 p.m. ET

Here’s a new edition of Jerry Seinfeld’s perfect little jewel of an Internet show, and one with particularly timely interest. His guest this week is Trevor Noah, soon to take over as host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show. How comfortably, and cleverly, does he interact conversationally with Seinfeld? I’d say tune in and see for yourself – except to see this series, you don’t tune in. You click – on the Crackle link for Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.
 
  
 
 
 
 
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David Bianculli has been a TV critic since 1975, including a 14-year stint at the New York Daily News, and sees no reason to stop now. Currently, he's TV critic for NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and is an occasional substitute host for that show. He's also an author and teaches TV and film history at New Jersey's Rowan University. His 2009 Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story of 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour', has been purchased for film rights. His latest, The Platinum Age of Television: From I Love Lucy to the Walking Dead, How TV Became Terrific, is an effusive guidebook that plots the path from the 1950s’ Golden Age to today’s era of quality TV.