FRIDAY
MARCH 20
2015

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Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE: This new drama series is like FX’s Damages in many significant respects. It comes from the same creators (Todd A. Kessler, Daniel Zelman and Glenn Kessner). It’s propelled by impressively talented actors (in Damages, Glenn Close; this time, Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard, Kyle Chandler, Linda Cardellini and Ben Mendelsohn). And Bloodline uses a flashback structure that leaks out its secrets in very small doses, and sometimes quite misleadingly, to add to the air of mystery). I’ve previewed the first three episodes of this series, which is about a not-so-tight-knit family in the Florida Keys, and so far, I’m intrigued but not addicted. It is wonderful, however, to see Chandler from Friday Night Lights in another series lead. He may be the most naturalistic TV actor, one who’s not given enough credit for the brilliant acting choices he makes, since the great James Garner.

 
  
 
 

Various Networks, 12:00 p.m. ET

This morning’s newspaper headlines noted that the upsets occurring in Thursday’s official opening day of March Madness had busted all but an estimated one percent of the nation’s NCAA brackets. And that was only day one, when West No. 14 seed Georgia State beat No. 3 seed Baylor with R.J. Hunter’s gorgeous last-second go-ahead three-pointer, and another No. 14 seed, UAB, beat its higher-ranked rival in the South, No. 3 Iowa State. Today’s games begin at noon ET on CBS, when No. 2 Kansas faces No. 15 New Mexico State in the Midwest, and bounce all over from there, with coverage also provided By TruTV, TBS and TNT. The top seeds play later at night: South’s No. 1 Duke vs. No. 15 Robert Morris at 7 p.m. ET on CBS, and West’s No. 1 Wisconsin vs. No. 16 Coastal Carolina at 9:20 p.m. ET on TBS. But given what happened yesterday, maybe you should keep an eye on today’s remaining No. 14 seed, the East’s Albany (playing No. 3 Oklahoma at 7:25 on TruTV).

 
  
 
 

Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET

SERIES FINALE: This Fox series, which ran out of steam a few years ago, ends officially tonight with a two-hour finale split between a prequel and a sequel. When it started, before it became gimmicky and unfocused, Glee was a bold and endearing musical drama – but that was years ago, and this series might have been better served building its final installment around a retrospective including its best musical and dramatic sequences. And how would I end it? With the inaugural cast's wonderful opening-episode performance of Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" -- but stopping midway through, and cutting to black...

 

 
  
 
 

CW, 9:00 p.m. ET

Just in case you missed it earlier this week: Here’s a same-week repeat of this clever new genre series, starring Rose McIver as a zombie who manages to keep her new “condition” in check thanks to a steady infusion of brains – which, as she munches on them, also provide her with temporary memories, skills and murder clues. In a word: iLikeit.

 
  
 
 

HBO, 10:00 p.m. ET

Tonight’s guests include Bob Costas and Gerald Posner.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.