TUESDAY
FEBRUARY 6
2018

BIANCULLI’S BEST BETS

 

Netflix, 3:00 a.m. ET

SPECIAL PREMIERE: With Portlandia in its final season, former Saturday Night Live regular Fred Armisen is about to be a free-range chicken again, roaming among various projects. And why not start with this one? After all, it does something neither Portlandia nor SNL allowed the chameleonic comic to do: to stand on stage, without hiding behind wigs and costumes and characters, to make observations and jokes, and be funny on his own terms, as himself. And behind his own drum kit, which, for a standup comic, is eminently and dually practical: You don’t have to stand up, and after jokes, you can provide your own rim shots. Ta-dum-BUMP!

 
  
 
 

Encore, 5:50 p.m. ET

This 1989 CBS miniseries is one of the best Westerns ever made, in any medium. Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones and Anjelica Huston star, and all three are marvelous in this tale of the old West and some of its more mature inhabitants (mature at least in terms of chronological age). Encore televises Parts I and II tonight, and the concluding Parts III and IV tomorrow. Well, well worth watching.

 
  
 
 

NBC, 9:00 p.m. ET

If the stayed tuned after Super Bowl LII (and what a game!) to watch that night’s special showing of This Is Us, you saw an absolute tearjerker of a show – but one that managed to defy expectations while still, by the end, delivering the sad circumstances of the death of this show’s beloved patriarch, Jack, played by Milo Ventimiglia. But while Jack he’s dead, he’s not gone – not on this show, which will continue to show scenes from his life in this drama’s many extended flashbacks.

 
  
 
 

Showtime, 9:00 p.m. ET

SEASON FINALE: This is the last outing this season for Showtime’s crew of pro football analysts – and boy, with Sunday’s Super Bowl, which produced more offensive yards than any postseason game in history, they’ll have plenty to discuss, and show, when they go to the videotape. Well, the films. The company isn’t called NFL Videotape – and with its artistically photographed footage, it deserves the name NFL Films.

 
  
 
 
 
 
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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.