WEDNESDAY
JUNE 28
2017

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET

MOVIE PREMIERE: This movie caused quite a stir when it premiered last month at the Cannes Film Festival, both because of its unexpectedly inventive sci-fi elements and for the fact that it was a Netflix original unveiled at the revered French festival. (If it’s a movie made for television, what is it doing at Cannes? But get used to the new world order, France.) Anyway, Okja is the movie’s name for a genetically modified (and at this point mythical, but entirely believable) “super-pig” – a giant, gentle amalgam of pig, manatee and puppy dog. An Sea Hyun plays the young teenaged Korean girl who befriends the animal, and tries to save it from a grisly scientific fate. Co-stars include Jake Gyllenhaal and Tilda Swinton. Swinton also appeared in Snowpiercer, another imaginative film by this movie’s director, Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho.

 
  
 
 

PBS, 9:00 p.m. ET

In this second installment of this multi-part nature documentary, spring has sprung – with a vengeance – and threatens not to spring so much as pounce, or explode. That’s because, in the delicate Yellowstone ecosystem, if the winter ice pack thaws too quickly, the resulting rush of cascading water will be more like a liquid avalanche. Or, I guess if you must put it more accurately, a flood. Check local listings.


 
  
 
 

NBC, 9:00 p.m. ET

Tonight’s episode, titled “Shoot-Up-Able,” originally was scheduled to be televised earlier this month – but was pulled from the schedule at the last minute, for sensitivity regarding the mass shooting at a Republican congressional baseball team practice in Alexandria, VA. That’s because this particular episode has Jarrod (Jarrod Carmichael) returning home shaken after surviving a mass shooting at a nearby mall – a brush with gun violence that has his family reacting, as usual, in very different ways.

 
  
 
 

BBC America, 10:00 p.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: This is the premiere of Season 3 of Broadchurch, the imported British series starring David Tennant and Olivia Colman as police officers – one local, one not – with very different approaches and personalities. It’s the final season for this series, which, like the others, actually is an eight-episode self-contained miniseries, in the mold of the original Prime Suspect. But though the central mystery story stands alone, expect to see several familiar faces, and characters from the previous two seasons – because they’ll be popping up.

 
  
 
 

Viceland, 10:00 p.m. ET

SEASON PREMIERE: Eddie Huang, the opinionated iconoclast chef whose childhood is played for loose laughs in ABC’s Fresh Off the Boat sitcom, presents his personality and ideas undiluted in this documentary travel series – which is as interested in politics and culture as in food, which is why Huang’s World, returning tonight for Season 2, is presented by Viceland, and not by, say, the Food Network.

 
  
 
 

TBS, 10:30 p.m. ET

Last week, reacting to and reflecting the news, Samantha Bee got very dark – as in presenting parts of her show in black and white, in a sinister sort of vintage sci-fi vibe. So you have to wonder: With the Senate version of the health care bill being debated fiercely in the media, and just delayed for a vote by the Republicans, how will she respond to and reflect this week’s news?

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.