TUESDAY

MAY 23

2017

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET

SPECIAL: This one-hour standup comedy concert was filmed in January, three months before Hasan Minhaj hosted this year’s sparsely attended White House Correspondents’ Dinner. He did a really good job there, especially under the circumstances. But he has an advantage when performing in this January concert, in David, CA – it’s home-field advantage, because he grew up there.

CASUAL

Hulu, 3:00 a.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: First three episodes of Season 3, the new season, are available today, as Casual embarks on yet another run of 13 episodes about an unusual, but not twisted, sort of sibling living arrangement. Tommy Dewey plays a single man whose sister, played by Michaela Watkins, is newly divorced – and with a teenaged daughter (played by Tara Lynne Barr) to raise, she decides to cohabit with her bachelor brother. It’s a Casual living arrangement that leaves plenty of room for comedy, though little extra room for anything else.

THE VOICE

NBC, 9:00 p.m. ET

SEASON FINALE: Part 2 of 2. All four finalists singing Monday had good turns, and showed off their respective strengths. But based on it all, and all season, I’d go for Jesse Larson (pictured) first, and then Chris Blue. Tonight, we learn how America voted. And right now, your opinion on America’s track record for voting depends, in part, on which side of the political fence you’re on.

AMERICAN EPIC

PBS, 9:00 p.m. ET

Part 2 of 3. In “Blood and Soil,” the second part of this three-part documentary on the origins of roots music, American Epic proves that weather has had an effect on music in general, and the blues in particular. An actual flood in Louisiana, for example, led to a flood of new music emigrating to the North. Watch and see – and, more to the point, listen. Check local listings.

GONE WITH THE WIND

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

Clark Gable is TCM’s Star of the Month – and tonight, in prime time, TCM presents a movie which NBC showed in two parts, in 1976, and got ratings strong enough to land in the all-time Top 10 at that point in television history. It’s 1939’s Gone with the Wind, and any time it’s shown in its proper screen ratio, unedited and uninterrupted, as it is tonight on TCM, you ought to watch it. And if you have what you think is a good excuse not to, well, frankly, my dear…

THE AMERICANS

FX, 10:00 p.m. ET

Last week’s episode was an interrogation showdown in which Elizabeth and Philip (Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys) asked questions of another couple. She was a Russian woman, now living in the U.S., and suspected by the spies’ Russian handlers of being a former Russian prisoner of the Nazis in WWII who survived by turning against, and killing, some of her fellow prisoners. The woman’s husband, an American, loved her, and knew nothing of her suspected past. By the end of the hour, both couples were devastated – one irreparably, the other markedly. Tonight, the fallout from that shocking showdown.

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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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