TUESDAY
MARCH 31
2015

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

ABC, 9:00 p.m. ET

Even with a scorecard, it’s gotten all but impossible, on this show, to tell the good guys from the bad guys, especially when there’s talk of the “true S.H.I.E.L.D.” Perhaps tonight’s episode will offer some clarity in its flashback, a tie-in to the most recent Avengers movie which recounts the day the spy agency was attacked from within, as well as without.

 
  
 
 

CW, 9:00 p.m. ET

I don’t know if Rose McIver, as Liv, is having as much fun playing her zombie character as I am watching her do it, but so far, it’s been a blast. She has to munch on cadaver brains, attained at her morgue job, to keep from turning into “full-out Romero” zombie mode – but the clever twist here is that as she consumes each dead person’s brains, she also temporarily absorbs some of their memories, abilities and emotions. So already, we’ve seen Liv get more artistic, more emotional, more ruthless, and a lot more skilled at martial arts. She’s like one of the reprogrammable ciphers from Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse, only with a pastier complexion.

 
  
 
 

PBS, 9:00 p.m. ET

Part 2. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Siddhartha Mukherjee, this three-night, six-hour documentary series, presented by Ken Burns, continues. If you saw yesterday’s Part 1, you’ll most likely be captivated enough to stay tuned to follow the progress of the understanding and treatment of this infuriatingly complex disease. It’s presented and structured here more like a murder mystery, with clues, dead ends, red herrings and inspired leaps of logic – and, in one sense, a murder mystery is exactly what the story of cancer is. Check local listings.   

 
  
 
 

FX, 10:00 p.m. ET

I keep warning that the final episodes of this great series are likely to serve up surprises and shocks – but even I was unprepared for the sudden turn of events in last week’s show, which found Raylan, Boyd and Ava in the same scene, with Boyd’s ill-gotten gains, Raylan’s determination to arrest him, and Ava’s sudden trump card, which had her becoming the number one fugitive on Raylan’s list, and everyone else’s.

 
  
 
 

TV Land, 10:00 p.m. ET

SERIES PREMIERE: TV Land is trying something new here, and it’s worth a peek. It’s a single-camera hour-long filmed comedy from Darren Star of Melrose Place and Sex and the City fame, not a sitcom performed in front of a live audience, and it’s got a premise that should appeal to viewers much younger than, as well as smack in the middle of, the TV Land demographic. Younger stars Tony-winning Broadway musical headliner Sutton Foster (Thoroughly Modern Millie, Anything Goes) as Liza, a woman who left the New York publishing world 15 years ago to devote herself full-time to marriage and parenthood. Now, with her child in her teens and her marriage over, she wants to re-enter the workplace, only to be rejected for being much too old for an editorial assistant position. So Liza lies about her age – a lot – with help from a fashion and makeup makeover from a supportive close friend (Debi Mazar). She hits the job-hunting trail again, this time posing as a fresh-faced 26-year-old, and nails it. Now all she has to do is maintain the illusion…
 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.