MONDAY
FEBRUARY 22
2016

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

Hulu, 12:00 a.m. ET

Just a reminder: Hulu is streaming 11.22.63, the Stephen King miniseries starring James Franco as a man who travels back in time hoping to prevent the John F. Kennedy assassination, the way the broadcast networks show their series: One episode a week. So tonight is episode two – and if you missed episode one, you can catch up by traveling back in time to last Monday’s premiere. Or, I guess, you can just go to the Hulu website, where last week’s episode, along with tonight’s, is available.

 
  
 
 

Fox, 8:00 p.m. ET

LIMITED SERIES FINALE: Limited series, miniseries, rebooted series, sequel series – whatever this six-episode X-Files of 2016 is, it ends tonight. And ends the same way it began: With Joel McHale guest starring as a conspiracy theorist with a TV show, and with a story circulating about the government’s secret program of injecting innocent civilians with DNA from aliens.

 
  
 
 

HBO, 9:00 p.m. ET

We’ve already had a very recent Mike Nichols tribute on American Masters, and this one, like that one, relies largely on an extended interview with Nichols himself. The difference here is that it focuses on his early life, and the very start of his career as a film director after his comedy and stage work. And since that part of his life was as fascinating as the rest of it, why not tune in to compare and contrast?
 
  
 
 

AMC, 10:00 p.m. ET

Last week’s Season Two premiere was wonderful, and set Jimmy (Bob Odenkirk) up at a new place of business, with a new boss (Ed Begley, Jr.), a company car, and other perks that far outshine illegally obtained cucumber water. So why is there this feeling that things aren’t going to go well for Jimmy? Oh – because we know they won’t, or he wouldn’t, in time, become Saul Goodman. Bob Odenkirk stars.

 
  
 
 

TBS, 10:30 p.m. ET

Last week’s second episode was much stronger than the premiere, with one segment lengthy and detailed enough to seem almost John Oliver-ish, and with Samantha Bee making strong comedy points about both the Supreme Court vacancy and the actual demographic makeup of Syrian refugees. If her learning curve continues to be as steep, tonight’s third outing will be really strong – and really, really funny.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.