TUESDAY
DECEMBER 10
2013

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

ABC, 8:00 p.m. ET

Last week, ABC repeated the pilot episode of this series, which introduced a rogue character with unchecked superpowers: soldier Mike Peterson. Tonight, in this new episode, we meet Peterson again – this time as a recruit to help the agents fight a powerful new villain, the Centipede. We’ll know, in coming episodes, whether that villain makes a return appearance – or, in other words, whether the Centipede has legs.

 
  
 
 

AMC, 8:00 p.m. ET

As Christmas movies go, this 1990 comedy is pure wish-fulfillment for young children. A frantic family heads for a Christmas vacation overseas, but leaving behind one child (young Macaulay Culkin) in the mad dash to the airport. Suddenly, the poor kid finds himself not only alone for the holidays, but defending his house against some astoundingly inept burglars (played by Daniel Stern and Joe Pesci). It should be scary – but this Chris Columbus farce, like a live-action cartoon, plays everything for very broad laughs.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

Peter Sellers surely went to school on this 1949 dark comedy, which has a charming villain (Dennis Price) targeting for extermination eight heirs to a family fortune – with all eight would-be victims, male and female, played by Alec Guinness.

 
  
 
 

CBS, 10:00 p.m. ET

Back in the days of print, and of magazines, one running joke was that some people insisted they read Playboy for the articles. A modern analogue would be someone who claims to watch CBS’s annual Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show for the music. In which case, you can listen to Taylor Swift and Fall Out Boy. Although, in the case of Taylor Swift this year, you might be able to make a strong argument for either side.

 
  
 
 

FX, 10:00 p.m. ET

SEASON FINALE: We learned, at the end of last week’s episode, that Tara (Maggie Siff) had defied both her husband and the authorities by a) taking her kids and running, and b) not taking a witness-protection deal. So she’s on her own, with both SAMCRO and the law looking for her – and I suspect that will come to a climax before tonight’s season finale does.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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David Bianculli

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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.