THURSDAY
MAY 12
2016

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

CBS, 8:00 p.m. ET

SEASON FINALE: Christine Baranski is gone from The Good Wife, now that that series has ended on CBS, but she’s not through with the network quite yet. Tonight she returns, yet again, as Leonard’s tightly wound, highly critical mother, in a Big Bang Theory season finale that also makes room for other Emmy-winning guest stars portraying parents. Laurie Metcalf makes another appearance as Sheldon’s religious mom, and Judd Hirsch makes his first appearance – but most probably not his last – as Leonard’s father. Sheldon’s parents have just divorced, and descend upon their son with points to make, settles to score, and old wounds to probe. Just in time for Leonard and Penny’s post-wedding “ceremony.”

 
  
 
 

ABC, 9:00 p.m. ET

SEASON FINALE: Was this the year that actual political events in presidential politics out-outrageousnessed the fevered imagination of Shonda Rhimes and her Scandal crew? So far, it seems so – but Scandal has tonight’s season finale to reclaim the crown. Kerry Washington stars. For a full review, see David Hinckley’s All Along the Watchtower.
 
  
 
 

CNN, 9:00 p.m. ET

After a few episodes where the order was switched around at the last minute, last week’s scheduled episode of The Eighties was pre-empted entirely by breaking news. (What was breaking, I no longer remember.) So now, I have so little idea of whether or what The Eighties will be presenting, I’m keeping it simple. Tonight at 9 ET, CNN will show something related to the 1980s. Unless it doesn’t.

 
  
 
 

BBC America, 10:00 p.m. ET

Some of the funniest scenes in Orphan Black have Donnie paired with a clone other than his suburban wife Alison, as when he babysits disturbed killer Helena. Tonight, he gets paired with yet another clone, the brainy Cosima, as the two of them try to learn more about the Neolutionist fertility research facility. All of them, of course, are played by Tatiana Maslany, who is ridiculously overdue for some Emmy recognition.

 
  
 
 

BBC America, 11:30 p.m. ET

Tonight’s scheduled guests include Tom Hiddleston, who’s doing an amazing job right now as the steely protagonist of AMC’s imported The Night Manager, as well as John Malkovich, Samuel L. Jackson, Sara Pascoe, and a musical group called CHVRCHES, of which I’m totally VNAWARE.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.