FRIDAY
JUNE 14
2019

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Amazon Prime Video, 3:00 a.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: Stana Katic returns for Season 2 of this moody character drama, which has her portraying a woman still haunted by memories of her time being held captive, chained and abused by a sadistic kidnapper. Imagine The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, then erase the laughs…And starting today, the misery continues, with a second season of psychological sadness.

 
  
 
 

Amazon Prime Video, 3:00 a.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE: This new crime series – and that’s hardly its only genre description, since its tone and content are so weird – is from Nicholas Winding Refn, who takes for apparent inspiration pieces from David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino, but removes all the music and most of the quirky characters. The pace is so deliberately slow, it makes Michelangelo Antonioni’s movies seem like they’re on fast-forward, and Refn, the Danish filmmaker who also directed The Neon Demon, employs more slow pans and tracking shots than Ken Burns. Miles Teller stars as a Los Angeles police officer with a slippery moral code, and while there’s very little about this series to recommend, it’s somehow compelling. Even if we weren’t consciously looking for it, we may have just found the modern, Danish Ed Wood.

 
  
 
 

Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: This is the third and final season for Jessica Jones, which was, and remains, the best Marvel TV series based on one of the comic giant’s characters. The first season had Jessica (Krysten Ritter), a private detective imbued with supernatural strength and agility, battling two demons: her alcoholism, and the mind-controlling bad guy who captured and manipulated her as his unwilling plaything before she escaped and vowed revenge. David Tennant played that villain, and was a superb antagonist for the equally strong Ritter. Season 2 had her chasing down another villain, but this time it was her own mother (played by another impressive guest star, Janet McTeer).  And this new season, the show’s last, has Jessica up against another Big Bad – this time a serial killer who ends up targeting Jessica herself. This final season is as strong as the rest, and Jessica Jones goes out as it came in, as the best TV Marvel series ever made. Oh, and compared to such cinematic Marvel entries as Dark Phoenix, it’s better than many of the company’s movies, too. But Netflix and Marvel are parting company now that Marvel-owned Disney is preparing its own streaming service, so this is the last lap for Jessica and company (that company includes Rachael Taylor, playing Trish Walker, Jessica’s closest confidante – but not so close this year.) And as with any final seasons, almost anything can happen, so prepare yourself. Not every familiar character should be expected to survive. Or will…

 
  
 
 

Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET

MOVIE PREMIERE: Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler star in Sandler’s latest made-for-Netflix movie comedy, and this is by far his best concept yet. Not for the movie, but for the deal he gets from Netflix: For Murder Mystery, he concocts a plot that allows he and his cast members to go to Monte Carlo and film on a yacht, with he and Aniston playing American vacationers invited to a private gathering hosted by a snooty tycoon (Terence Stamp), who isn’t so much the life of the party as the death of it. This movie’s co-stars include Quantum of Solace “Bond girl” Gemma Arterton as a movie star, and Deadpool 2 co-star Shioli Kutsana as the tycoon’s much younger significant other. (You get the feeling Sandler casts his Netflix films after bingeing on action movies.) James Vanderbilt, who wrote the screenplay, has written some action movies himself, including Zodiac and White House Down. There aren’t many solid laughs here, though, and that might explain why. So might the idea that the paid vacation to Monte Carlo might have taken more energy and focus than the filmmaking.

 
  
 
 

ABC, 8:00 p.m. ET

In this week’s new episode, alternate universes converge, and so do plot lines that have been dangling for several seasons now. This is the episode when what’s left of the old S.H.I.E.L.D. team finally locates Fitz, whose misadventures has taken him through various time and space portals. The question is, have they found him only to lose him again?

 
  
 
 

Cinemax, 10:00 p.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE: Carla Gugino already made her mark on TV in one attention-getting series, the outstanding Elmore Leonard Out of Sight spinoff, Karen Sisco. But ABC canceled that series much too prematurely, and it’s taken until now, 16 years later, for Gugino to get another worthy shot. In this new crime series from Cinemax, she plays Daisy “Jett” Kowalski, a former master thief who gets pulled back into a life of crime just when she thought she was out. And one of the powerful criminals doing the pulling is played by Giancarlo Esposito, finding a delicious new role of his own, after playing the unforgettably sinister yet stoic Gus Fring on both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. Need I say more? I didn’t think so… For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.
 
  
 
 

HBO, 10:00 p.m. ET

Tonight’s is a shouldn’t-miss episode: George Will opens the show, and Martin Short closes it.
 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.