TUESDAY
FEBRUARY 11
2014

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

Various Networks, Check local listings

NBC, in prime time beginning at 8 p.m. ET, tonight presents the gold medal final for the men’s snowboarding halfpipe event – a competition that has drawn complaints from U.S. team members all during practice runs and competition, because of conditions at the halfpipe itself. There’s also a prime-time NBC medal round in women’s ski jumping, but you have to go online – to NBCOlympics.com – to see either Russia or Norway compete today in men’s curling. Yesterday, during CNBC’s coverage of an opening-round USA men’s game, host Fred Roggin joked that NBC stood for “Nothing But Curling.” Would that that were true. While the U.S. gets followed, there’s no place today on the network, or any of its sister networks, to follow the Norway or Russian teams (unless they're facing the U.S.), both of which provide extra rewards for watching them: the latter for its exuberant crowds, the former for its extraordinary uniforms.

 
  
 
 

ABC Family, 8:00 p.m. ET

When one of the characters in this series nods off while watching an old movie on TV (been there, done that, ad infinitum), she and her friends find themselves catapulted into a film noir world – black and white, complete with vintage costumes and cars – while solving their own related-to-the-present mystery. Reason enough to watch, because shows aimed at young viewers seldom look in the rear-view mirror, at least in terms of pop culture.

 
  
 
 

Fox, 9:00 p.m. ET

Linda Cardellini, from ER, Mad Men and Freaks and Geeks, guest stars as the wilder older sister of Jess (series star Zooey Deschanel). Hmm. How, I wonder, did Zooey break this news to her own real-life older sister, Bones star Emily Deschanel? “Sorry, sis… but we just couldn’t see you in the part…”

 
  
 
 

PBS, 9:00 p.m. ET

Tonight’s installment is all about Robert Leroy Parker and Harry Alonzo Longabaugh. If those names aren’t familiar, maybe the name of their Wild West gang of outlaws might be: They were known as The Wild Bunch. Or, perhaps, Parker and Longabaugh are better known by their respective aliases, made famous by the classic movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Check local listings. 

 
  
 
 

FX, 10:00 p.m. ET

Last week’s episode of Justified was great – one tense confrontation after another, with the lives of everyone involved in credible, exciting jeopardy. Most of the characters lived to thrill us another day – which arrives tonight. But, as those who are caught up on this series already know, some of them didn’t. And tonight, with Boyd (Walton Goggins) furious about what just happened to Ava (Joelle Carter), expect the body count to rise even higher.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.