MONDAY
MARCH 21
2016

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET

We know how attached the Penguin was to his mother – but what was his relationship with his father? We learn that tonight, as the Cobblepot patriarch shows up. And he’s played, once again, by Paul Reubens, who played an older version of Penguin’s dad in 1992’s Batman Returns (pictured), and just reappeared with a new Pee-Wee Herman movie on Netflix.

 
  
 
 

NBC, 8:00 p.m. ET

Last week’s audition and battle rounds were equally good, and tonight the battle rounds continue. As mentors, the most interesting guest star, of course, is Gwen Stefani, who is helping the singers chosen by (who else?) Blake Shelton. Theirs is an extra unscripted dynamic in this otherwise tightly formatted show – as is Shelton’s on-camera back-and-forth with Adam Levine.

 
  
 
 

ABC, 8:00 p.m. ET

CYCLE PREMIERE: This show returns for a new round of dancers, and this cycle marks the return of original judge Len Goodman. Now for the warning: Competing amateur dancers this time include Geraldo Rivera from Fox News, Jodie Sweetin from Fuller House, and Marla Maples, ex-wife of Donald Trump. If any of those three celebrity names makes you more inclined to tune in to this edition of Dancing with the Stars, you’re visiting the wrong website.

 
  
 
 

A&E, 9:00 p.m. ET

Last week’s episode was truly creepy, bringing Norman to the delusional “realization” that it’s his mother who has been killing people on the premises and hiding the bodies and evidence. In a way, he’s right – but what he doesn’t realize is that, during his blackout periods, he is his mother. So now, Norman and his real mother, Norma, have good reason to fear one another…

 

 
  
 
 

HBO, 9:00 p.m. ET

Nora Ephron’s son, Jacon Bernstein, wrote and directed this tribute to his late mother, so it’s a real family affair – and one thing he inherited, clearly, is his mother’s gift for candor. This comes out not only in what he films and chooses to show, but in interviews with such close friends of his mother’s as Meryl Streep, Mike Nichols, Tom Hanks, and Rob Reiner.

 
  
 
 

AMC, 10:00 p.m. ET

I’m actually two weeks behind on this show – no time to watch at the moment without multi-tasking, and I refuse to have my attention divided when a series is this good. But as soon as I get a chance, I’ll add this to the hours of pure viewing pleasure awaiting me when I get a break.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.