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HAND OF GOD

Amazon Prime Video, 3:00 a.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: This is the second season of this Amazon drama series, and the final one. It’s already been announced that this series, starring Ron Perlman and Dana Delany as a controversial judge and his wife, will stop production after this new round of episodes, which unspool today. The couple faces a murder trial – and, as with last season, there’s an unpredictability to the plots and the characters, and a high talent level among the starring and supporting actors, that make this series a very worthwhile endeavor. Delany always has been one of my favorites – as has Garret Dillahunt, who returns in a prominent supporting role.

 
  
 
 
LOVE

Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: Gillian Jacobs stars as Mickey, and Paul Rust as Gus, in this uncomfortable love story returning with its entirety of Season 2 today on Netflix. They play very flawed, complicated and verbal people who are attracted to each other despite their own hesitations and foibles – and watching their love blossom in Love is not so much seeing a flower slowly and beautifully unfurl, but a wheezy old car jerk through a series of bad gear-shift changes. But, some would say, that’s Love in a nutshell.

 
  
 
 
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Alfred Hitchcock not only made a series of great films, he kept himself interested along the way by giving himself some very formidable challenges. In 1948’s Rope, his goal was to direct a film that looked like one long, unbroken scene, from start to finish, with continuous and unedited action. Because of the technology of the day, and the length and limitation of film reels, all he could do was film in 10-minute blocks, and concoct clever edit points to connect those scenes as unobtrusively as possible. Farley Granger and John Dall star as smarmy young New Yorkers who decide to commit murder just to see if they can get away with it, and James Stewart – in his first film with Hitchcock, before reteaming on such classics as North by Northwest and Vertigo – plays their former schoolteacher, and unwitting source of inspiration for the killers. If you love the sort of inventive, long-take filmmaking present in portions of Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil in 1958, Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas in 1990, Robert Altman’s The Player and John Woo’s Hard Boiled (both from 1992), Paul Thomas Anderson’s Boogie Nights (1997), Brian De Palma’s Snake Eyes (1998), Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity (2013), and Alejandro Inarritu’s Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) in 2014 and his The Revenant in 2015, you’ll love this, too. (Clearly, I've been a fan of long takes for a long time...)
 
  
 
 
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SERIES FINALE: At 8 p.m. ET, the CW provides a retrospective special, trying to encapsulate and summarize, for long-standing fans and curious last-second viewers, exactly what the hell this vampire romance drama was all about. Basically, it was about two vampire brothers, played by Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder – but truly, it was about Nina Dobrev, who in her years with the show played no fewer than four roles: not only doppelganger rivals Katherine and Elena, but also lesser figures Tatia and Amara. Dobrev left the show in 2015 – but returns tonight for the finale. In how many roles, though, I have no idea…

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.
 
 
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