SUNDAY
APRIL 27
2014

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

CBS, 9:00 p.m. ET

Wasn’t it great, last week, when Michael J. Fox came back in his Good Wife recurring role? Yes, it was. And this week, here’s another great comeback: Dylan Baker, who plays the all-time creepiest client of Julianna Margulies’ Alicia, makes another appearance. This time, the multiple murder suspect is engaged to be married – and his bride to be, who could be his bride to be in danger, is played by Laura Benanti.

 
  
 
 

HBO, 9:00 p.m. ET

In this week’s episode, the focus expands to other lands, other characters… and other problems. But there as anywhere else, death, and the threat of it, is never far away.

 

 
  
 
 

AMC, 10:00 p.m. ET

The previews for this episode show Jon Hamm’s Don Draper on the phone, having what appears to be a very dramatic and uncomfortable conversation. Then again, almost every conversation Don has had this season has seemed very uncomfortable.

 
  
 
 

WGN America, 10:00 p.m. ET

The most unsettling part of last week’s series premiere was the sight of Janet Montgomery, playing the town’s secretly powerful witch, rolling around her helpless invalid husband, who was unable to warn anyone that she was the source of all of Salem’s mishaps and terrors, including his own. This week – more mayhem, marital and otherwise.

 
  
 
 

HBO, 11:00 p.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE: Make a special effort to watch or tape this one. John Oliver did such a great job subbing for Jon Stewart on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show last summer, he deserves viewer loyalty – even on a different network – as he launches his own comedy news retrospective series. This one, in format, is closer to the old British and NBC versions of That Was the Week That Was, which was one of the most brilliant and bitingly funny topical comedy TV series ever made. Last Week Tonight, taped earlier this evening, won’t have the benefit of songs written by Tom Lehrer, as TW3 did – but it will have Oliver, and his very particular and peculiar comic sensibility. And that’s a very, very good start.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.