WEDNESDAY
JUNE 12
2019

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET

MUSIC DOCUMENTARY PREMIERE: In 1974, the then-reclusive Bob Dylan embarked on a comeback reunion tour of sorts, joining with his “Basement Tapes” cohorts The Band on a high-intensity, high-volume national tour. I saw one leg of that tour, at a January 1974 concert in the Everglades in Hollywood, FL. The following year, Dylan gathered a new set of cohorts, and began what he called the Rolling Thunder Revue. At first, it was an ad hoc adventure on a rather small scale, then morphed into a bigger deal, playing stadiums and concert halls across the country. I saw that latter incarnation of the Rolling Thunder Revue as well, in April 1976, at the University of Florida, and covered it for The Gainesville Sun. (I remember Joan Baez, who was performing her beautiful “Diamonds and Rust” song on that tour, coming back onstage in skimpy costume and red wig as a cartoonishly trampy backup singer, identified only as “Rusty Diamond.” Our photographer that day didn’t get a shot of it, but it’s true. I swear.) Well, from the first, more intimate part of that Rolling Thunder Revue, director Martin Scorsese uses found footage, and conducts new interviews, to shape an account of Dylan’s manic menagerie that included, at various points, not only Baez, but Allan Ginsberg, Joni Mitchell, Roger McGuinn, Ronnie Hawkins, Scarlet Rivera – and also makes room for Sharon Stone, Patti Smith, Jacques Levy, Ronee Blakely, and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, among others. Having directed No Direction Home: Bob Dylan in 2005, Scorsese is on very strong ground here, even as Dylan is determined to build his legend on quicksand…


 
  
 
 

Hulu, 3:00 a.m. ET

Last week, The Handmaid’s Tale returned for Season 3 with a triple-header of new episodes, established June’s new position, and problems, after staying behind rather than escaping, as Emily did, to Canada and freedom. In Gilead, June still has Serena to deal with, but in a vastly different dynamic – and that goes for Aunt Lydia as well. Today, Hulu presents the next installment in this dystopian saga.

 
  
 
 

NBC, 8:00 p.m. ET

A Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals has happened only 17 times in the Cup’s long history. Tonight will be number 18, with the Boston Bruins facing the St. Louis Blues for the right to take home the Cup. The last Game 7 was in 2001, when the Bruins beat the Vancouver Canucks. The Blues were swept in their three previous finals appearances, so even getting to a Game 7 represents three more Stanley Cup Finals victories than the team has experienced before this year. So in a winner-take-all situation, will both teams and their fans be super-stoked, setting the scene for a thrilling final? Uh, yeah.

 
  
 
 

FXX, 10:00 p.m. ET

This season of Archer, called Archer: 1999, has our comatose hero dreaming about, and placing himself and his spy colleagues in imagined versions of, all manner of sci-fi movie tropes. This week’s, called “The Leftovers,” is about a mysterious alien creature discovered on board, who morphs into an increasingly dangerous – and, in this case, ravenous – deadly monster. And in Archer’s imagined scenario, guess who happen to be the titular leftovers?
 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.