NBC, 8:00 p.m. ET
On tonight’s new episode, Zoey (Jane Levy), feeling rebellious and constrained, takes some advice, and takes a trip. Said trip, of course, is bound to be extraordinary…
HBO, 9:00 p.m. ET
This documentary shows, by example, how you can take someone with no discernible talent and, simply by promoting them through various means on various social media, turn them into arguable, low-level celebrities. It worked before the Internet (see: Paris Hilton), but now it's an actual business. Several of them, actually, as Fake Famous will show. Kids: Don’t try this at home.
Showtime, 9:00 p.m. ET
This is the show’s annual Super Bowl pre-game analysis – and with what’s bound to be a career-long look at rival QBs Tom Brady of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Patrick Mahomes of the defending Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs, it should prove a perfect primer, and setup, for Sunday’s Super Bowl.
ABC, 10:00 p.m. ET
So you’d think, when the evil, white-slavery-ring-running sheriff was shot square in the forehead, that would be the end of him, leaving the two female protagonists to band together to find his still-at-large accomplice. But apparently not. In tonight’s episode, he emerges from his coma, at the same time this series wanders off into something less like Big Sky and more like Big Joke, with the sheriff as a sort of uniformed, unkillable Jason from Friday the 13th.
PBS, 10:00 p.m. ET
This new
Frontline documentary takes a deep dive into the probable and possible origins and spread of COVID-19 – and it’s frightening enough without the ominous music on the soundtrack, which makes
China’s COVID Secrets feel like a nonfiction horror movie. It stars with SARS, which surfaced in China in 2002, spread worldwide, and resulted in some 800 before it was identified and contained. In December 2019, another deadly strain was identified (that’s where the 19 in COVID-19 comes from), but this particular virus was much more easily transmitted. The numbers in China begin to increase exponentially – but what’s scarier, in this
Frontline, is the government reaction, and how while the virus was spreading, news and information about it was not. You know the rest.
Check local listings. For a full review, see Alex Strachan's TV That Matters.