WEDNESDAY
MAY 17
2017

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

Hulu, 3:00 a.m. ET

This week’s newly streamed episode of The Handmaid’s Tale involves a political visit by the Mexican delegation – one that provides Serena Joy, played by Yvonne Strahovski, with the chance to display her importance, including her control over her handmaids. But she, too, is a woman, which makes her power play somewhat tenuous in this future society, where most women have been stripped of position, power, and many other freedoms. Elisabeth Moss stars as Offred, one of the handmaids in Serena Joy’s oppressive “care.”

 
  
 
 

ABC, 9:00 p.m. ET

SEASON FINALE: This is the Season 10 finale, which is quite an impressive run for a broadcast TV series – and Modern Family isn’t through yet, and still is a very funny sitcom. In tonight’s episode, Manny reaches graduation day – an occasion significant enough to warrant the return of Manny’s biological father, played, once again, by recurring guest star Benjamin Bratt.

 
  
 
 

PBS, 10:00 p.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE: This new three-part series, hosted by Michael Mosley and James Wong, explores the science behind food – why we crave the foods we do, why cooking foods certain ways accomplishes certain things chemically, and so much more. In Episode 1, “Food on the Brain,” the questions explored include why we are what we eat, why we eat, and why, in some cases, we overeat. Check local listings.

 
  
 
 

FX, 10:00 p.m. ET

Last week, Ray Stussy tried to steal his older brother’s valuable postage stamp by donning a wig and shaving his facial hair, to look more like brother Emmit – and then to talk and bully his way into his brother’s safety deposit box. That ruse worked, but the stamp wasn’t there. So tonight, Ray dons the wig again, to carry out another half-baked (or quarter-baked) scheme: filming a blackmail sex tape, with Ray’s “Emmit” being shown in a compromising position. Ewan McGregor plays both brothers, and is playing them very, very entertainingly.

 
  
 
 

IFC, 10:00 p.m. ET

SEASON FINALE: Brockmire ends its first season tonight with some very good news: There will be a second season, because Brockmire has turned out to be IFC’s highest-rated new show. Hank Azaria, Amanda Peet star.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.