WEDNESDAY
MAY 16
2018

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

ABC, 9:00 p.m. ET

SEASON FINALE: It’s been a long time since Modern Family showed up to reenergize the family sitcom genre. Give it props, though, for longevity as well as quality, because tonight’s episode marks the Season 9 finale. And for the first five seasons in that run, it won the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series – beating, along the way, such competitors as HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm and Girls, NBC’s The Office and 30 Rock, and FX’s Louie.

 
  
 
 

PBS, 9:00 p.m. ET

The question asked tonight on NOVA Wonders is “Can We Build a Brain?” And the answer, at least so far as I know, is “Yes, at least one that’s good enough to win on Jeopardy.” But tonight’s NOVA Wonders may have even more information to impart. Check local listings.

 
  
 
 

TNT, 9:00 p.m. ET

In the Eastern Conference, the Boston Celtics have been dominant, beating the Cleveland Cavaliers in the first two games by margins of 25 and 13 points, respectively. In the Western Conference, Game 1 was comparably lopsided, with the Golden State Warriors beating the Houston Rockets by a 13-point margin. But tonight is Game 2 in that series, to see if the Warriors, like the Celtics, can reassert their authority.

 
  
 
 

FX, 10:00 p.m. ET

It’s getting there. This series, in its final season, is doing what made Breaking Bad so great as it headed into its last laps. Remember when Hank finally realized what his brother-in-law was up to all along, and that the nefarious villain he’d been chasing for years as a law enforcement agent actually had sat across with him at family meals for years? Well, on The Americans, Philip and Elizabeth’s FBI neighbor, Stan, is coming very, very close to making the exact same revelation – and last week, even broke into their house to snoop around. This long-simmering subplot is about to explode, very soon, as the all-important U.S.-Soviet Summit is scheduled to arrive, with Elizabeth on a mission to sabotage it.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.