ABC, 8:00 p.m. ET
It’s taken 15 episodes, but Meghan Ory, who as Ruby been waiting tables at Granny’s since the series began, finally gets her own fairy-tale story told – the story of her past life as Red Riding Hood. I’m going to watch tonight’s installment in high-definition – the better to see it with, my dear.
NBC, 8:00 p.m. ET
SERIES RETURN: After a brief winter hibernation, this David E. Kelley series returns on a new night and time, and with a familiar face as guest star. Christian Clemenson, who played the OCD-afflicted Jerry Espenson on Kelley’s Boston Legal, pops up here as a different attorney, with a different type of affliction. He’s a tough-talking, hard-headed lawyer named Sam – and halfway through the episode, he shows up for a meeting with Harry (Kathy Bates) with a nail sticking out of his skull. Hard-headed, indeed.
Reelz Channel, 8:00 p.m. ET
It’s no accident that this 2011 documentary, pulling extensively from Sarah Palin’s audio-book reading of her memoir, Going Rogue, shows up tonight on Reelz, one day after Game Change, a dramatization based, in part, on a book covering Palin’s run on the 2008 Republican presidential ticket, premiered on HBO. But it does make it especially interesting in context, as a valuable “compare and contrast” exercise. Filmmaker Stephen K. Bannon uses Palin’s own words, memories and opinions to frame this political biography – which is most illuminating at the start (with old childhood movies of Palin, and an incendiary compendium of reaction to Palin by comics and political pundits). By the end, though, the film’s uncritical viewpoint is so pervasive and persistent, it extends to the fact-denying title – an odd name for a biography about a vice presidential candidate who, in a word, lost.
CBS, 9:00 p.m. ET
Dylan Baker returns again, as the creepy, murderous, yet undeniably charismatic Colin Sweeney – and, once again, Alicia (Julianna Margulies) finds herself defending him. And it’s an episode that also makes room for other wonderful guest stars, including Bebe Neuwirth and Homeland co-star Morena Baccarin.
AMC, 9:00 p.m. ET
It’s the penultimate episode of Season 2, with enough already in the rear-view mirror – literally as well as figuratively – to make tonight’s episode particularly unmissable.