TUESDAY
JANUARY 13
2015

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

NBC, 8:00 p.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: For this seventh and final season of Parks and Recreation, Leslie (Amy Poehler) and company go back to the future – to the jump-forward to 2017 that ended last season, and resumes for these final 13 episodes. Give these last shows some attention, and some love: Poehler, Chris Pratt, Aziz Ansari, Aubrey Plaza and Nick Offerman all have drawn more career heat in the years since Parks and Rec premiered. And personally, I was both stunned and delighted by the show’s unexpected shoutouts to me during their occasional spoofs of public radio. Thanks, folks. Attention was paid…

 
  
 
 

ABC, 9:00 p.m. ET

Just as The Flash premiered on the CW as an instantly more balanced and entertaining companion to its more somber parent series, Arrow, so did Marvel’s Agent Carter burst out of the starting blocks last week with a tone both lighter and more playful than that of its companion ABC series, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Hayley Atwell stars.

 
  
 
 

PBS, 9:00 p.m. ET

In the United States, the Ku Klux Klan managed to re-emerge to spread its hateful, hooded racism after two periods of relative dormancy. The first time the KKK rose again, like locusts, was after being portrayed as heroes in D.W. Griffith’s epic 1915 silent film, Birth of a Nation. The second time was in 1954, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of integration in the Brown v. Board of Education decision. That was why the KKK gathered momentum again, but this new documentary examines, and looks at the reasons behind, where: In North Carolina. Check local listings.

 
  
 
 

PBS, 10:00 p.m. ET

This new Frontline provides both a biography and political assessment of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, including segments from a 1992 documentary about Putin commissioned by Putin. Not unexpectedly, but quite tellingly, it’s a more flattering portrayal of the Russian leader than provided by tonight’s Frontline – and that’s Putin it mildly. Check local listings.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 10:00 p.m. ET

Matthew Perry and Thomas Lennon are about to star in a new TV series based on Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple, premiering soon on CBS. Meanwhile, tonight, as part of TCM’s month-long tribute to Robert Redford on Tuesdays, the cable network presents a movie version of another of Simon’s early Broadway comedy hits. This one, from 1967, stars young Redford, and an even younger (by one year) ingénue named Jane Fonda, as newlyweds who move into a fifth-floor New York walkup apartment. He’s a conservative, she’s a free spirit, and it’s fair to think of this sparkly little comedy, in a way, as a better-written spiritual forebear to TV’s Dharma & Greg.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.