I lose many hours from my life by being sucked into watching shows and movies I recommend in Bianculli’s Best Bets, even though I’ve seen them before. Just yesterday, I procrastinated, avoiding other duties, by watching a few hours of AMC’s Breaking Bad marathon, including the killer, legendary “Face Off” episode that ended the day’s mini-marathon. Was it as excellent as I remembered it? Yes. Absolutely. And today, the weekend retrospective, honoring the 10^th anniversary of Breaking Bad, continues, with the first six episodes of Season 5, starting with “Live Free or Die” (pictured), the first show of the post-Fring era, at 10:49 a.m. ET.

History is all on the side of the New England Patriots for today’s AFC Championship Game. With QB Tom Brady (pictured) and coach Bill Belichick at the helm, the Patriots have fought their way to their seventh consecutive AFC title game. When playing at home, as they are here, they’re almost unbeatable, with a 5-1 record when the Super Bowl game is within reach. But the Jacksonville Jaguars frustrated and defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers to get here, and the defense and pass rush were a huge part of that. The moves and countermoves are easy to predict: The Jaguars will pull all sorts of stunts to try to pressure and sack Brady, Brady will try to defeat the blitzes by throwing lots of short passes over the middle to his tight ends and running backs over the middle, and the Jaguars, in turn, will have to delay or stop those routes and receivers. If Brady can perform his usual surgical strikes, the Pats are back in another Super Bowl. If the Jaguars defense finds a way to stop Brady somehow, then the Jaguars – one of four NFL teams never to play in the big game – will make it to their first Super Bowl. And behind much-maligned QB Blake Bortles at that.

Both teams in today’s NFC Championship Game got here by surviving, and coming up big in, the final play of their previous playoff games. The Minnesota Vikings made not only the play of the year, but one of the most stunning plays in NFL history, by scoring a 61-yard touchdown (pictured), with 10 seconds left and no time outs, to wrest victory from the still-stunned New Orleans Saints. The Philadelphia Eagles, conversely, were in the position of the Saints, trying to preserve their lead, and a victory, as the fourth-quarter clock ran down, playing goal-line defense as the Atlanta Falcons ran, and failed to connect on, a fourth-and-goal pass play. So now here they are: the Minnesota offense and Philadelphia defense, both of which buckled but refused to break, and now fight for the right to advance to the Super Bowl. Both Vikings QB Case Keenum and Eagles QB Nick Foles were backup quarterbacks before being thrust into these central roles – and after today, one of them, and their teams, will be headed to Superl Bowl LII. If it’s Minnesota, by the way, it’ll be a home game, because that’s where this year’s contest is scheduled to be played.

SPECIAL: Kristen Bell, currently co-starring on NBC’s clever The Good Place, is the host of tonight’s 24^th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, which will be simulcast on TBS and TNT. She’s the first female host in the history of the SAG Awards, but her achievement is even bigger than that. She’s the first host, period. Up until now, the SAG festivities have flown without a solo pilot.

In this second episode of Season 2, Victoria (Jenna Coleman) remains weary of two things: pregnancy, and the condescension of the men around her in court. She keeps finding herself in the family way – the Royal Family way, in her case – but she also finds a way around the rules, trappings, and men keeping her from wielding the power of the throne that already is hers. Check local listings.

The Gallaghers always have some sort of schemes going on, but the ones bubbling to the surface this season seem especially outrageous, even for them. Fiona (Emmy Rossum) keeps trying to advance as a landlady and homeowner, but her own streak of kindness appears to be backfiring on her. Meanwhile, Svetlana (Isidora Goreshter) is surfing the Internet for a sugar daddy, Ian (Cameron Monaghan) has backed into a surprise inspirational role as a local “gay Jesus,” and Frank (William H. Macy) is tapping the “gay Jesus” movement for all it’s worth… including printing out “official” tee shirts and other merch. Eight seasons in, Showtime’s Americanized Shameless still has lots of life – and lots and lots of audaciousness.