SUNDAY
MAY 13
2012

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

ABC, 8:00 p.m. ET

SEASON FINALE: When worlds collide: If it can happen on Fringe, why not on Once Upon a Time? In tonight’s episode, the somewhat clean division between the fairy tale world and the world of Storybrooke begins to get murky, as Emma (Jennifer Morrison) has to make a fateful decision about what to do next, in and out of town, to pursue justice, and vanquish evil, as she sees it. Expect a cliffhanger as juicy as any bright red apple.

 
  
 
 

ABC, 9:00 p.m. ET

SERIES FINALE: After eight seasons – two terms, as Eva Longoria said Friday night on Real Time with Bill Maher – Marc Cherry’s series presents its final two hours. It’s been said, a lot, that this show’s best years are long behind it, but I’m been watching throughout, and that’s not so. This season’s story lines with Felicity Huffman’s Lynette (separated from, but still loving, husband Tom), Marcia Cross’ Bree (falling off the wagon and into the beds of multiple strangers), and Gaby (finding a new career as a personal shopper) have all been clever, and tonight’s finale offers a nice chance to say goodbye to a series that, for a while, was the hottest show on TV. Cherry and company named each episode after a Stephen Sondheim song or lyric, and the Cherry-written final hour is a nod to both a song from Sunday in the Park with George and the title of the composer’s new career-overview book: “Finishing the Hat.”

 
  
 
 

PBS, 9:00 p.m. ET

The Hounds of Baskerville, this second of three mysteries in the Season 2 cycle of Sherlock is the weakest of the three – but that doesn’t mean that it’s not entertaining. It is, especially the twists that modernize Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original Hound of the Baskervilles. Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman star as, respectively, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Check local listings.

 
  
 
 

HBO, 9:00 p.m. ET

So many characters barely escaped death in last week’s episode that you know tonight’s hour is going to be a killer. Or, at least, feature one, or more. There are escapes and power plays all over the place, each threatening to upend the status quo of the increasingly volatile kingdoms under the throne. Prisoners have escaped, subjects have defied their leaders – and mythical creatures have been stolen. “Find my dragons!” Emilia Clarke’s Daenerys orders tonight, once she discovers her followers slain and her powerful pets missing.

 
  
 
 

AMC, 10:00 p.m. ET

This season, Jessica Pare, as Megan Draper, has delivered some of the best moments in this or any season of Mad Men. She sang seductively to husband Don, in French, at a party that left him mortified and angry. When he was angered, again, by her dislike of the orange sherbet at Howard Johnson’s, she sarcastically shoveled spoonfuls of it it into her mouth like Harold defiantly ate his beets in Harold and Maude. Then, last week, after Don and company talked about hiring a group that sounded like the Beatles for a new TV spot, Megan brought home the real deal: a copy of the Revolver LP. And she told him to go straight to “Tomorrow Never Knows,” a song so far ahead of its time that it sounds futuristic even now. As Don listened to the song, he confronted something inexplicably, uncomfortably new. The theme, it’s clear already, for this mid-Sixties season of Mad Men. Even the song title fits the show’s theme perfectly.

 

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.