MONDAY
JULY 2
2018

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Fox, 10:00 a.m. ET

If you’re not watching this year’s World Cup yet, you’re missing one of the most unpredictable and exciting soccer tournaments ever played. Traditionally, the World Cup is where experience and defense make all the difference – but in 2018, it seems, anything can happen. The defending champions didn’t even make it to the Round of 16. Then, on the first day of knockout play, the game’s two biggest global superstars were eliminated, along with their squads. And yesterday, in one game, the lowest-ranked team still standing – host country Russia – managed to advance, beating Spain, one of most dominant teams of the last decade. (Maybe Russia managed the win because an obvious penalty at the end was not called, opening the host Russians to charges of affecting the results, but there you go.) Then, in yesterday’s second game, Croatia vs. Denmark, the teamed traded goals in the first four minutes of the game – read that sentence again – then battled without scoring again in regulation, or in overtime. That game, like Russia vs. Spain, went the full distance, then to penalty kicks. And Croatia, not Denmark, advanced, when its goalie stopped more penalty kicks than his counterpart. Wow. And today, we have two more games, broadcast by Fox. Up first is Brazil, the most decorated team in World Cup history, against Mexico, at 10 a.m. ET. Then, at 2 p.m. ET, it’s Belgium vs. Japan.

 
  
 
 

AMC, 9:00 p.m. ET

Last week was a tough week for the show’s women. One of them, the porn star specializing in rape-fantasy videos, became the first female victim of the “Jennifer” killer. Another, glamorous magazine editor Kitty (Julianna Margulies), had her power and title wrested from her by her disapproving male boss. And the protagonist of Dietland, Plum (Joy Nash), ended the episode being dumped, punched, and betrayed – and very, very angry, setting the scene for tonight’s episode to have her on full boil.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.