FRIDAY
FEBRUARY 27
2015

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: With Netflix, of course, the entirety of a new season is released at once – so if you go to Netflix, you’ll find all of Season 3 ready and waiting for you to either binge watch or parcel out in a less gluttonous viewing experience. Either way, Kevin Spacey as Frank Underwood is back, more powerful than ever – and that goes for the character’s job title as well as the actor’s intensity. And if you remember how boldly Season 2 began, and took viewers in an unexpected dramatic direction, you have good reason to approach this new season, at whatever speed, with a mixture of uncertainty and excitement. Robin Wright co-stars.

 
  
 
 

Comedy Central, 8:00 p.m. ET

This 2008 comedy isn’t really that good, or even that funny, though it’s one of the dozens of similar films following in the successful wake of Legally Blonde several years before. What makes it worth watching today is how many of its stars have moved on to prominent, and often noteworthy, TV roles. Anna Faris, now starring on the CBS sitcom Mom, has the very titular role of the former Playboy bunny who takes a job as house mother at an unpopular campus sorority. Her costars include Emma Stone, who earned an Oscar nomination for her work in Birdman, as well as Colin Hanks, who was so believable and identifiable in FX’s Fargo; Kat Dennings, co-star of the CBS sitcom Two Broke Girls; and Katharine McPhee, now starring in the CBS drama Scorpion.

 
  
 
 

PBS, 9:00 p.m. ET

The New York Philharmonic salutes the music of Italian cinema, with help from Reneé Fleming, Josh Groban and Joshua Bell. Alan Gilbert conducts selected works from Italian movie soundtracks, including classic ones by Ennio Morricone and Nino Rota. Music from Federico Fellini’s and La Dolce Vita are here, and from Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West, and others. But they missed a great one: Piero Piccioni’s great music and vocal arrangements for Elio Petri’s 1965 futuristic The 10th Victim. Check local listings.

 
  
 
 

National Geographic Wild, 10:00 p.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: You know that recent TV ad showing animals of different species, and often natural enemies, cavorting or cuddling together? Well, National Geographic Wild already had turned that concept into a nature series long ago – and here it is, returning again for a new season (Number 4) of cats and dogs, horses and chickens, and just about any other mix-and-match arrangement you can imagine. It’s the animal kingdom version of The Odd Couple, only a lot more entertaining than the new CBS sitcom remake.
 
  
 
 

WE TV, 10:00 p.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE: This is definitely not a recommendation – just a warning, and a bit of a scolding. It’s not even March yet – but if any other show is going to top my 2015 Worst TV list, this is the low bar it’ll have to slither beneath. Three advanced-degree therapists of various stripes sit in judgment, Shark Tank-like, while three couples take turns sitting before them to discuss their derailed sex lives. The experts give them some initial counseling, then send them off to an onstage “Sex Box,” where they will have sex, then come out and discuss what did and didn’t happen, and, so to speak, what comes next. The only thing that could make this show worse would be to let us see or hear inside the box as the guests are carrying on – because that would be too much like Big Brother, another horrible idea imported and adapted from another country’s bad TV inventory. For a full review, see Ed Bark's Uncle Barky's Bytes.
 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.