WEDNESDAY

APRIL 26

2017

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

Hulu, 3:00 a.m. ET

MINISERIES PREMIERE: This new Hulu series, based on the Eighties novel by Margaret Atwood, stars Elisabeth Moss as a woman swept up into a horrifying new world in which men rule completely, and women are relegated to one of several subservient roles: trophy wife, actual servant, guard or overseer, or fertile handmaidens, assigned to procreate with specific men to provide children for their barren wives. What’s most scary about this imagined dystopian and sexist world is that, in this new TV adaptation, it appears to take place almost immediately following our present reality – and the shift is as brutal as it is sudden. Alexis Bledel co-stars as, like Moss’s character, another women harboring a quiet but defiant resistance to the new status quo. The first three episodes are available today. For a full review, listen to my preview today on NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, or visit the Fresh Air website. Also, see David Hinckley's full review for TVWW in All Along the Watchtower.

BOUND FOR GLORY

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

Hal Ashby directed this 1976 biography of Woody Guthrie as part of an amazing and intense creative burst, right after Harold and Maude and Shampoo and right before Coming Home and Being There. David Carradine stars as Guthrie, and his performance, musically and otherwise, is exceptional. Even more exceptional: the photography, including one of the cinema’s first usages of the Steadicam.

BLACK-ISH

ABC, 9:00 p.m. ET

Rashida Jones, who’s having such fun on the underrated and criminally underviewed Angie Tribeca police-show spoof on TBS, guest stars tonight, playing the hot-mess reality-TV star sister of Tracee Ellis Ross’ Rainbow. And there are other fun relatives visiting also: Daveed Diggs (from Broadway’s Hamilton) plays her brother, and Anna Deavere Smith of The West Wing and Nurse Jackie returns as their mom.

FARGO

FX, 10:00 p.m. ET

Ewan McGregor, in a dual role as brothers Emmit and Ray Stussy, continues to be such fun to watch. But as this season of Fargo unspools, don’t dare take your eyes off the women – especially Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Carrie Coon. Great roles; superb actresses.

BROCKMIRE

IFC, 10:00 p.m. ET

Tonight’s episode is called “Breakout Year,” and tries to position Hank Azaria’s Brockmire for a post-meltdown comeback. The internet is what brought him down – and social media, and some unexpected fan bases, may be just the thing to propel him back 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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