MONDAY
MARCH 27
2017

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

AMC, 9:00 a.m. ET

In anticipation of the coming Season 3 of Better Call Saul – my favorite current TV series – AMC is prepping viewers by presenting two Monday marathons of scene-setters. Today, starting at 9 a.m. ET, AMC presents an entire day of episodes from Breaking Bad, the Vince Gilligan show that begat Better Call Saul. Not every episode, or the most recent ones – but the ones that most prominently feature Bob Odenkirk as shady attorney Saul Goodman. And the day starts, most fittingly, with the episode that introduced the character, brilliantly: The Season 2 Breaking Bad episode called, appropriately and presciently, “Better Call Saul.”

 
  
 
 

NBC, 8:00 p.m. ET

The Battle Rounds part of this show ends this week – the leg of The Voice where half the contestants performing are eliminated each night. So the tension is high – but the strategies are highly focused, too, because the judges get the chance to “steal” the losing contestants and keep them in competition. This cycle’s talent is so high, many judges -- including the crushingly charming Alicia Keys -- will be eager to pounce, and add the “losing” singers to their teams, which has led to another spirited round of singing, arguing, and pleading.
 
  
 
 

CW, 8:00 p.m. ET

Tonight’s episode is a double treat for fervent comic-book genre fans. Kevin Smith, whose love of comics is so great he hosts the AMC series Comic Book Men, directs tonight episode. (Smith also directed Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.) And returning as guest star, playing this fictional world’s female President of the United States, is former Wonder Woman star Lynda Carter.

 
  
 
 

A&E, 10:00 p.m. ET

Rihanna, as Marion Crane, checks into the Bates Motel tonight, with Freddie Highmore’s Norman Bates eyeing her every move (sometimes, from behind that hidden office-to-motel-room peephole) What could possibly go wrong? Not much, at least artistically, because this series, this season, is doing everything just right.
 
  
 
 
 
 
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David Bianculli

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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.