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OCTOBER 12

2014

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2014 NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES

Fox Sports 1, 8:00 p.m. ET

The San Francisco Giants won yesterday’s game against the St. Louis Cardinals, 3-0, and tonight the Cards will try to even the series. We’ll see whether or not that’s in the Cards.

THE GOOD WIFE

CBS, 9:00 p.m. ET

This show is so good. Each week, while continuing certain story lines in a linear and clever fashion, it also finds ways to hone in on specific legal cases, highlight selected major characters, and do so in a way that showcases the acting, writing, directing – everything. The only problem with this series is that, during football season, time-slot overruns can, and do, wreak havoc with the scheduled start times.

THE WALKING DEAD

AMC, 9:00 p.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: What a thriller of a season opener. The Walking Dead doesn’t just hit the ground running to start Season 5 – it hits the ground kicking and screaming and howling and fighting. The show picks up right where last season left off, with Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and some of his post-apocalyptic comrades held captive by the deadly and deceitful folks at Terminus. And the tension it builds in the opening minutes is breathtaking. And I mean that literally, because it takes your breath away – and is in no hurry to give it back.

HOMELAND

Showtime, 9:00 p.m. ET

This episode of Homeland clarifies, even more, the direction this season intends to take, with Carrie (Claire Danes) gathering allies to investigate what went wrong with the intel that resulted in the bombing of a wedding party in Pakistan. This finally brings her back together with Saul (Mandy Patinkin), but not necessarily as a partnership – but with or without him, Carrie, like Homeland, is on the right track.

THE AFFAIR

Showtime, 10:00 p.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE: The team behind HBO’s excellent In Treatment are back with another home run – this one starring Dominic West from The Wire and Ruth Wilson from Luther as married people – married to other people, that is – who embark on an affair, in a story told, in turn, from his and her point of view. It’s a subtle yet bold drama, demanding viewers to pay close attention, then rewarding that attention with a string of provocative details, twists, revelations and teases. This could well end up as the best new series of the year, so don’t miss it. For my full review on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, visit the Fresh Air website.

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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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