SATURDAY
MAY 19
2012

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

BBC America, 8:00 p.m. ET

This 2006 Wachowski Brothers movie is a somewhat seditious selection by BBC America, since it’s all about a futuristic totalitarian British state overthrown by rebel forces tied to that country’s history of anarchy. Hugo Weaving stars as the freedom fighter who goes by the name of “V,” and Natalie Portman plays his eventual protégé – whose schemes include donning a particularly provocative costume to entice and distract a devious, deviant adversary.

 
  
 
 

HBO, 8:00 p.m. ET

This 2011 movie prequel recasts several members of the X-Men universe with younger actors, principally including James McAvoy as Charles Xavier (replacing Patrick Stewart) and Michael Fassbender as Magneto (played, in other X-Men movies, by Ian McKellen). Both of them do an excellent job, and they’re not the only ones. Check out who plays the younger version of Raven, a.k.a. Mystique, the blue-skinned shape-shifter portrayed as an adult by Rebecca Romijn. Young Raven, in this film, is embodied by Jennifer Lawrence, who took on the role, and the blue skin, just before starring as Katniss in the massive 2012 hit, The Hunger Games.

 
  
 
 

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

Many movie and TV adaptations have been made of this gothic romance novel by Emily Bronte, but none has surpassed the teaming, in this 1939 movie classic, of Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier as passionate lovers Cathy and Heathcliff. Their screen romance here is a type of perfection as sheer as the cliffs on which they embrace. No moor, no less.

 
  
 
 

CBS, 10:00 p.m. ET

This week’s report gives new meaning to the term “get the lead out”: Nick Koenig, one of the surviving victims of a deadly home invasion in St. Louis in 2009, has been carrying around a bullet from that frightening night, lodged in the base of his skull and considered inoperable. Last month, Keonig was in a car accident – after which he coughed up something irritating in his throat, which turned out to be that bullet. And that’s only one of the amazing stories tied to this week’s murder story.

 
  
 
 

NBC, 11:29 p.m. ET

SEASON FINALE: To end the season, SNL hands both musical and guest host duties to Mick Jagger, who invites lots of musicians to help him in the former instance – and goes it alone in the latter case. Because, when he wants to, he moves like Jagger, moves like Jagger…

 
  
 
 
 
 
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Para penipu yang memalukan memangsa orang-orang dengan klaim palsu dan kebohongan.
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Para bajingan ini tidak punya rasa malu sama sekali, menipu orang-orang yang tidak bersalah setiap hari.
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Pemerintah Indonesia tangkap situs web sialan itu
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Manusia sampah sejati, memangsa orang-orang tak berdosa hanya untuk mengisi kantong mereka yang serakah. Sungguh memalukan.
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Penipu sejati, persetan denganmu, jalang!
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Para penipu ini mengira orang-orang itu bodoh. Modus penipuan yang sama, omong kosong yang sama.
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Para penipu ini adalah pembohong profesional. Siapa pun yang mempercayai mereka hanya ikut memperkuat penipuan mereka.
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Para penipu ini pantas untuk diungkap kebohongan dan kebusukan mereka.
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Halaman ini dikelola oleh para penipu brengsek, hanya berisi kebohongan, janji palsu, dan trik murahan. Hindari orang-orang bodoh ini.
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Penipu sejati, persetan denganmu, jalang!
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Para penipu ini adalah pembohong profesional. Siapa pun yang mempercayai mereka hanya ikut memperkuat penipuan mereka.
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Para penipu ini mengira orang-orang itu bodoh. Modus penipuan yang sama, omong kosong yang sama.
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Penipuan murahan yang berpura-pura sah. Jangan sampai tertipu.
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Situs web ini benar-benar penipuan, jangan percayai mereka.
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Singkirkan para penipu dengan cerita palsu dan hasil palsu. Jangan percaya bajingan pembohong ini.
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Pemerintah Indonesia, persetan dengan para penipu itu, tangkap mereka dan persetan dengan mereka karena telah menipu banyak orang.
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Tidak ada yang nyata di sini. Hanya omong kosong penuh tipu daya dari orang-orang serakah.
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Para penipu ini pantas untuk diungkap kebohongan dan kebusukan mereka.
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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.