WEDNESDAY

MAY 21

2014

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET

SEASON FINALE: After finalists Caleb Johnson and Jena Irene had sung two songs each during yesterday’s live performance finale round, judge Harry Connick Jr. declared it a tie, and his fellow judges agreed. Then the contestants sang one more song, and the results were left to the viewing audience – that percentage of them that votes, anyway. My guess? It should, and will, be Caleb.

THE MIDDLE

ABC, 8:00 p.m. ET

SEASON FINALE: Another ABC Wednesday night comedy, Modern Family, did its own Disney World trip years ago, and tonight the Hecks follow suit, as part of an expanded season finale episode. What will the folks at Disney-owned ABC think of next?

MODERN FAMILY

ABC, 9:00 p.m. ET

SEASON FINALE: Part 2 of 2. The wedding of Mitchell and Cam (Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Eric Stonestreet) was just about to proceed in last week’s episode, with Lily the flower girl even getting to sprinkle her rose petals, when firemen interrupted the ceremony to order a forced evacuation because of rapidly encroaching wildfires. That was the cliffhanger ending to last week’s episode – but somehow, I’m confident tonight’s end-of-season episode will serve up a very happy ending. And, given this show’s track record and stellar actors and writers, a very, very funny one as well.

THE AMERICANS

FX, 10:00 p.m. ET

SEASON FINALE: The danger has gotten so close to home, to everyone involved in The Americans, that more characters are running for cover than staying to fight. Elizabeth and Phillip (Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys) find themselves so threatened that they evacuate their own kids – and Nina (Annet Mahendru) has been given money to flee as well, because of fears that her own Soviet superiors may intend to kill her if she doesn’t successfully turn Stan (Noah Emmerich).

SIN CITY

Starz!, 10:00 p.m. ET

This evocative 2005 film is about to spawn a sequel: Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, coming in August. Several of the actors and characters will be returning, including Jessica Alba as Nancy Callahan – and the original Frank Miller-Robert Rodriguez collaboration, which you can see again tonight, was so dazzling, it’s proper to have high expectations for a follow-up.

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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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