WEDNESDAY

SEPTEMBER 20

2017

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PBS, 8:00 p.m. ET

Part 4. Tonight’s installment is titled “Resolve,” and covers all of 1966 and half of 1967. If you’re old enough to remember that part of the Sixties, you know those were very tumultuous times – with even more upheaval to come. And at home as well as in Vietnam, the war is turning out to be received much, much differently than WWII. For a full review of tonight’s episode, see Alex Strachan’s TV That Matters. Check local listings.

AMERICA'S GOT TALENT

NBC, 8:00 p.m. ET

SEASON FINALE: This cycle’s winner is revealed tonight. I’m guessing it’ll be someone not yet old enough to drive – but I could be wrong.

MR. MERCEDES

AT&T Audience Network, 8:00 p.m. ET

When you’re a young adult still living with your mother, privacy issues can be difficult to avoid. That’s true tonight of Brady (Harry Treadaway), the vehicular serial killer who lives at home with his very clingy mom, played by Kelly Lynch. And tonight, the mother confronts her son after finding his clown mask – the same mask linked to the “Mr. Mercedes” killer. Both of the collaborators of this new TV series are riding high right now: Stephen King with his new movie version of It (more clowns!), and executive producer and writer David E. Kelley having just snagged Emmy awards for his HBO adaptation of Big Little Lies.

THE GOOD PLACE

NBC, 10:01 p.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: Last season, The Good Place pulled off an end-of-season surprise that was the most unexpected, sneaky and clever plot twist since the Mel Brooks The Producers season of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm. In The Good Place, the entire season had presented Kristen Bell’s Eleanor as being a person sent mistakenly to heaven – the titular good place – and trying to either fake or earn her way to permanent residency there. Ted Danson played the “angel” presiding over this particular patch of divine real estate – except that the stunning reveal at the end of Season 1 was that Danson’s angel actually was a devil… and the good place actually was a new version of hell, dreamed up as a devious new way to torture Eleanor and the others in the so-called “good place.” So how to proceed with Season 2? With Eleanor and her new neighbors’ memories wiped, and some given new identities and occupations, to reboot the idea, and the torment, all over again. Eleanor, though, left herself a clue about the place’s, and the host’s, true character. But will she be able to decipher it now? I watched, and enjoyed, this comedy all last season, and expect to enjoy it even more now. For a full review, see David Hinckley’s All Along the Watchtower.

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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.

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