SUNDAY
AUGUST 4
2013

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

AMC, 9:00 p.m. ET

SEASON FINALE: Last week’s episode, with its extended conversations between Linden (Mireille Enos) and death row inmate Seward (Peter Sarsgaard) and its almost unbearably intense climax, got us fully involved in The Killing again. Now comes the two-hour season finale – with at least one more killing for Linden and Holder (Joel Kinnamon, pictured with Enos) to confront, and solve, before this season’s story line concludes. Presuming, that is, it does conclude…

 
  
 
 

Showtime, 9:00 p.m. ET

Sing along with this new Dexter ditty: “Dex and Debra sittin’ in a tree, K-I-L-L-I-N-G.” It’s odd, but while we know these are the final episodes for this show, it doesn’t quite yet feel like them. Plot lines, like Dr. Vogel’s abduction, still seem more like detours than a forceful march to the ultimate conclusion. But perhaps that will change tonight. Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter star – for a little longer.

 
  
 
 

HBO, 10:00 p.m. ET

I still enjoy, and recommend, this show, despite its excesses of character silliness in the romance department. But I will say, without revealing too much, that in tonight’s episode, the deep secret altering both the outlook and appearance of one character on The Newsroom reminds me a bit too much of the climactic “strangled chicken” memory haunting Hawkeye on the famous finale of M*A*S*H. Just for the record.

 
  
 
 

Showtime, 10:00 p.m. ET

I’d like to say with conviction, right now, that Jon Voight will be in the running next year for an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor. It’s unimaginable, based on his performance so far, that he won’t. I’d like to say that – but I’m not completely certain it’ll happen, because, in my opinion, this year’s Emmy nominations, in the same category, could be filled completely with actors from Justified, and not one of them was recognized by the voters. The category, like the snub, is completely un-Justified.

 
  
 
 

TNT, 10:00 p.m. ET

SEASON FINALE: In this Season 3 finale, the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. No, it really does. And the only way to save Earth is to use a weapon given by one alien species to battle another – without knowing the true motives of either. Noah Wyle stars.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.